What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Quality Engineer 4 position at Adobe Systems?
The Opportunity
You are eager to learn more and grow your career in Quality Engineering. You have experience and enthusiasm for testing applications in an agile development environment. You enjoy working on a lively and collaborative team. You are passionate about agile and data-driven product development for digital photography professionals and enthusiasts. If this describes you, consider joining the Adobe Lightroom
Photography QE team and help build products that millions of passionate customers use worldwide.
Our Lightroom ecosystem is an industry standard among photographers around the world. To take our software to greater heights, we are looking for a Quality Engineer who has the passion for making desktop photography apps easy to use yet able to deliver powerful results, someone who can lead from within and contribute to our hardworking and creative photography software team.
What You'll Do
Work both independently and collaboratively within a fast-paced Engineering team, with clear, positive, and constructive communication and decision-making.
Become an expert in the Lightroom Desktop application features.
Work closely with QE peers, Product Managers, Engineers and Designers in defining and developing features.
Define quality standards and build a cohesive strategy for testing Lightroom features.
Perform functional and workflow testing, including end-to-end testing as part of the Lightroom ecosystem, using a variety of testing tools.
Help the team increase its skills and capabilities by creating collaborative opportunities and supporting others via mentoring.
Monitor releases, logging, and analytics of owned features.
Implement plans for defining and improving quality metrics.
Work with the team to help evolve and drive software quality and delivery process improvements.
What You'll Need to Succeed
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Minimum 5 years' experience testing consumer software through full release cycles.
Mastery in manual exploratory testing of sophisticated software products.
Mastery in the creation and documentation of software testing strategies.
Expertise with agile software development methodologies.
Experience with testing desktop apps on both Mac and Win and cross-product workflows.
Real passion for building world-class applications that customers love.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Experience using JIRA, Charles Proxy, GitHub, or Jenkins is a plus.
Experience working with cloud technologies is desired.
Photography and/or Adobe Lightroom exp
About Adobe
Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.
Our 30,000 employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We're on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.
Let's Adobe together
At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.
Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Learn more.
Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email or call 1 .
AI Use Guidelines for Interviews:
Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.
At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI - and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it's restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring 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 position is $113,400 -- $221,750 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and 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.
In Washington, the pay range for this position is $142,500 - $206,275
At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).
In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
State-Specific Notices:
California:
Fair Chance Ordinances
Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances.
Colorado:
Application Window Notice
If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.
Massachusetts:
Massachusetts Legal Notice
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
You are eager to learn more and grow your career in Quality Engineering. You have experience and enthusiasm for testing applications in an agile development environment. You enjoy working on a lively and collaborative team. You are passionate about agile and data-driven product development for digital photography professionals and enthusiasts. If this describes you, consider joining the Adobe Lightroom
Photography QE team and help build products that millions of passionate customers use worldwide.
Our Lightroom ecosystem is an industry standard among photographers around the world. To take our software to greater heights, we are looking for a Quality Engineer who has the passion for making desktop photography apps easy to use yet able to deliver powerful results, someone who can lead from within and contribute to our hardworking and creative photography software team.
What You'll Do
Work both independently and collaboratively within a fast-paced Engineering team, with clear, positive, and constructive communication and decision-making.
Become an expert in the Lightroom Desktop application features.
Work closely with QE peers, Product Managers, Engineers and Designers in defining and developing features.
Define quality standards and build a cohesive strategy for testing Lightroom features.
Perform functional and workflow testing, including end-to-end testing as part of the Lightroom ecosystem, using a variety of testing tools.
Help the team increase its skills and capabilities by creating collaborative opportunities and supporting others via mentoring.
Monitor releases, logging, and analytics of owned features.
Implement plans for defining and improving quality metrics.
Work with the team to help evolve and drive software quality and delivery process improvements.
What You'll Need to Succeed
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Minimum 5 years' experience testing consumer software through full release cycles.
Mastery in manual exploratory testing of sophisticated software products.
Mastery in the creation and documentation of software testing strategies.
Expertise with agile software development methodologies.
Experience with testing desktop apps on both Mac and Win and cross-product workflows.
Real passion for building world-class applications that customers love.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Experience using JIRA, Charles Proxy, GitHub, or Jenkins is a plus.
Experience working with cloud technologies is desired.
Photography and/or Adobe Lightroom exp
About Adobe
Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.
Our 30,000 employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We're on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.
Let's Adobe together
At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.
Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Learn more.
Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email or call 1 .
AI Use Guidelines for Interviews:
Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.
At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI - and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it's restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring 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 position is $113,400 -- $221,750 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and 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.
In Washington, the pay range for this position is $142,500 - $206,275
At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).
In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
State-Specific Notices:
California:
Fair Chance Ordinances
Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances.
Colorado:
Application Window Notice
If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.
Massachusetts:
Massachusetts Legal Notice
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Salary : $113,400