Senior Software Quality Engineer

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 impacts 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, functionality, 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.