Senior Software Quality Engineer

JOB LEVEL
P40
EMPLOYEE ROLE
Individual Contributor

Opportunity:

The video rendering team owns the high-performance rendering pipeline that powers Premiere Pro, an industry-leading non-linear video editing application used by millions of creators around the world.

We are constantly evolving the core rendering architecture toward an innovative , scalable, and performance- first pipeline. As a Senior Quality Engineer working on the rendering pipeline , you will help ensure that features and optimizations ship with confidence at velocity . You will be a guardian of quality and the voice of the user, validating functionality , performance, and workflow impact s across complex video editing scenarios.

Responsibilities:

• Own quality strategy and execution for features and workflow areas within Premiere Pro and other pro apps.

• Create test plans for complex rendering, playback, editing, color, and export workflows.

• Evaluate user impact, functional ity , performance, and regression risks across feature work and bug fixes .

• Partner closely with developers to understand system changes, impacted workflows , and appropriate validation approaches.

• Validate behavior across media format types , codecs, frame rates, resolutions, bit depths, pixel formats, effects, sequences, and hardware configurations.

• Use and extend automation to ship features with high confidence at high velocity.

• Help define and improve performance metrics, dashboards, automation coverage, and regression detection.

• Participate in design reviews and advocate for testability, reliability, and user-centered quality.

• Share testing knowledge , quality practices and repeatable processes with adjacent teams . and help break down work for other QE team members when needed.

• Collaborate across engineering, product, automation, performance, and partner teams to improve release confidence.

Required Skills:

• 6-8+ years of quality engineering experience, ideally on complex desktop, creative, media, graphics, or performance-sensitive applications.

• Strong QE fundamentals: test planning, requirements analysis , risk assessment, regression testing, root cause analysis and overall quality ownership.

• Working knowledge of video concepts such as codecs, media formats, frame rate, resolution, pixels, bit depth, color as well as familiarity with modern video editors.

• Experience running, debugging, and writing automated tests using TypeScript, JavaScript, Python.

• Experience owning quality for large features, product areas, or complex multi-functional initiatives.

• Experience testing both functional correctness and performance-sensitive workflows.

• Ability to partner effectively with developers and understand technical abstractions, system behavior, and implementation risk.

• Familiarity with CI systems such as Jenkins , and command-line test workflows.

• Ability to interpret metrics, dashboards, logs, automation results, and performance signals.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate risk, influence decisions, and represent the user experience.

Expected Pay Range:
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this positionis $113,400 -- $221,750 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills,and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

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In California, the pay range for this position is $153,200 - $221,750 │ In Washington, the pay range for this position is $142,500 - $206,275

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