[Hiring] Senior Engineer QA, PC Apps @Dolby Laboratories, Inc.

Role Description

For Dolby’s PC Applications, you will play a key role in ensuring the quality, stability, and reliability of consumer-facing, client-side applications used at global scale. As a Senior Engineer QA, you are the quality owner for defined features or application areas. You work hands-on with automation and validation, independently driving test strategy, risk assessment, and release readiness within your scope. This is a senior individual contributor role. You collaborate closely with software engineers and product partners, influencing quality outcomes through technical expertise.

What you will do

• Own quality outcomes for assigned features or application areas, making clear recommendations on release readiness and risk trade-offs.
• Define and execute test strategies, plans, and coverage for new and existing functionality.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated tests across multiple levels (functional, integration, system, end-to-end).
• Drive automation and CI/CD based quality gates to ensure reliable and predictable releases.
• Investigate complex, system level issues and collaborate closely with software engineers on root cause analysis.
• Improve testability, coverage, and reliability through collaboration with engineering and product teams.
• Mentor other QA engineers and promote best practices in Software Quality Assurance (SQA).

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Software Quality Assurance (SQA) or quality engineering for consumer or client-side software.
• Hands-on experience with test automation and quality tooling, using scripting or programming languages such as Python.
• Ability to independently define test strategy, assess risk, and take ownership of quality outcomes within a defined scope.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD driven development and validation workflows.
• Ability to analyze, debug, and reason about issues in C# based client applications, even if not writing production application code daily.
• Experience validating client-side applications with high requirements for stability, reliability, and release quality.
• Clear communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally with engineering and product partners.

Nice to have

• Experience building or extending automation frameworks in Python.
• Experience testing Windows based desktop or platform level applications.
• Experience debugging system level or native components (e.g. C++ dependencies).
• Interest in mentoring and helping grow other QA engineers.

Benefits

• Work on consumer-facing PC applications with global reach and high quality expectations.
• An engineering led quality culture that values ownership, accountability, and collaboration.
• Modern development and validation workflows, including automation and CI/CD.
• Opportunities to grow technical depth, influence quality decisions, and mentor other engineers.

Company Description

Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future. At Dolby, science meets art, and high tech means more than computer code. We continue to revolutionize how people create, deliver, and enjoy entertainment worldwide. To do that, we need the absolute best talent. We offer a collegial culture, challenging projects, and excellent compensation and benefits, not to mention a Flex Work approach that is truly flexible to support where, when, and how you do your best work.