Software Engineer in Test 5 - Android Player
About The Position
Netflix is seeking a Software Engineer in Test to join the Android Player team, which owns Android app playback outside the UI, including streaming, offline downloads, and foundations for live events and ad-supported viewing. The role owns how playback quality is verified across thousands of Android devices for a client that ships weekly. Current priorities include expanding automation for live and advertising, maintaining a reliable shared device lab, and making test results trustworthy enough to block merges or releases. The role owns Android Player test strategy across unit, integration, and end-to-end testing; builds automation frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure; and expands automated coverage for live events and ad-supported playback. It requires thoughtful management of device coverage and lab capacity, reducing test flakiness and runtime, and removing tests that no longer inform decisions. The engineer supports release and live-event readiness, including participation in the on-call rotation behind live gating, and raises quality across the team through code review, mentorship, and influence. The role also calls for exemplifying Netflix's culture and values.
Requirements
- Deep experience ensuring the quality of consumer Android applications at scale.
- Strong experience with Kotlin, Java, and the Android SDK.
- Software engineering ability to build test frameworks, harnesses, and CI tooling.
- Experience testing across layers, with judgment in placing tests among unit, Robolectric, integration, screenshot, and on-device suites.
- Knowledge of audio/video and streaming, including adaptive streaming, DRM, codecs, hardware and software decoding, and player frameworks such as ExoPlayer.
- First-hand knowledge of the Android device ecosystem, including SoC and OEM hardware capabilities and playback across device generations and price points.
- Experience applying AI tooling in testing, such as test generation, failure triage, flakiness analysis, or coverage-gap reduction.
- Ability to use data and judgment to decide what to automate and what to keep manual.
- Systems-thinking ability to reason about interactions between client, network, and backend in playback issues.
- Clear communication and ability to collaborate across UI, iOS and TV Player engineering, product management, and data science.
Responsibilities
- Own Android Player test strategy and determine what is verified at unit, integration, and end-to-end layers, including which tests can block a pull request or release.
- Build test automation frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure.
- Expand automated coverage for live events and ad-supported playback.
- Manage device coverage and shared device-lab capacity so suites remain fast and lab time provides useful signal.
- Reduce test flakiness and runtime, and retire tests that no longer affect decisions.
- Support release readiness and live-event readiness for a weekly-shipping client, including participation in the on-call rotation behind live gating.
- Raise quality through code review, mentorship, and influence, and encourage testability to be designed in.
- Understand, advocate, and demonstrate Netflix's values.
Benefits
- Strong parental leave policy and family-forming benefits.
- Comprehensive health plans.
- Mental health support.
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
- Stock option program.
- Disability programs.
- Health savings and flexible spending accounts.
- Life and serious injury benefits.
- Paid leave of absence programs.
- Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off.
- Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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