Staff Engineer QA, PC Apps

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.

Dolby Hiring Entity

77 Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Block C

Grand Canal Docklands

Dublin D02 VK60Ireland