Staff Engineer QA, PC Apps

The role:

For Dolby’s PC Applications, you will play a critical role in defining, evolving, and driving Software Quality Assurance (SQA) strategy across a portfolio of consumer-facing, client-side applications used at global scale.  

As a Staff Engineer – SQA, you operate at both strategic and hands-on technical levels. You shape longterm SQA direction, design scalable test and automation frameworks, and influence engineering and product decisions across multiple teams.  

This is a senior technical leadership role focused on impact, standards, and sustainability. It is not a people management position.  

What we offer:  

• Work on a portfolio of consumer-facing PC applications with global reach.  

• An engineering led Software Quality Assurance culture that values ownership and longterm sustainability.  

• Modern development and validation workflows, including CI/CD driven quality gates.  

• The opportunity to shape SQA strategy, frameworks, and standards across teams.  

• A role with real technical influence and longterm organizational impact.  

What you will do:  

• Define and evolve Software Quality Assurance (SQA) strategy, standards, and longterm direction across multiple PC applications.  

• Design, own, and evolve scalable SQA automation frameworks and validation strategies.  

• Establish quality metrics, benchmarks, and release criteria to enable predictable, highquality delivery.  

• Identify systemic quality risks and lead cross-team SQA initiatives to address them.  

• Ensure SQA practices are built into development workflows, including CI/CDbased validation and quality gates.  

• Partner with software engineering, product, and leadership to influence quality and delivery decisions.  

• Act as a technical authority and trusted advisor on SQA topics across the organization.  

• Mentor senior SQA and software engineers, raising quality awareness and technical standards across teams.  

What you bring 

Required:  

• Deep experience in Software Quality Assurance (SQA), quality engineering, or test architecture for complex, production grade software systems.  

• Strong hands-on experience with SQA automation and quality tooling, using scripting or programming languages such as Python.  

• Proven ability to design, evolve, and own SQA automation frameworks and validation strategies across multiple test levels (unit, integration, system, endtoend).  

• Strong understanding of CI/CDdriven development and SQA validation workflows, including quality gates and release readiness.  

• Ability to analyze, debug, and reason about issues in C#based client applications, even if not writing production application code daily.  

• Experience applying SQA practices to client-side, consumer-facing applications with high requirements for stability, reliability, and quality at scale.  

• Ability to operate at both hands-on technical and strategic levels, influencing SQA and delivery decisions across teams.  

• Strong technical judgment, ownership mindset, and the ability to communicate SQA risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.  

Nice to have:  

• Experience building SQA frameworks or tooling in Python.  

• Familiarity with Windows based client application platforms.  

• Experience debugging system level or native components (e.g. C++ dependencies).  

• Experience defining organizationwide SQA standards, metrics, or release criteria.