Sr. QA Engineer

NBCUniversal•New York, NY

14h•$110,000 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Media Group at NBCU supports a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands including Peacock, NBC, Bravo, NBC Sports, and NBCU International. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive. The Peacock Technology team is seeking a Senior QA Engineer for Embedded Platforms. The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer on the Global Video Engineering team will be required to use standard industry tools to test development of pending applications and digital product from the NBCU team as well as monitor the quality of our live, in production, digital product.

Requirements

Minimum five years’ of experience in Quality Assurance processes and Test management tools e.g. Test Rails, Quality Center, Xray, Jira and Confluence.
Familiarity with agile development methodologies and SDLC, especially with web, mobile, connected device and OTT applications
Familiarity with current popular Connected Device/OTT (tvOS/Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV, Android TV, Xbox, PlayStation, etc.)
Familiarity with applications supporting video/media playback
Experience with building test plans and coordinating QA/UAT with functional teams
Ability to adapt/adopt new technology and solutions easily
Good understanding of networking, SSL, firewalls, CDN, DRM.
Experience with Charles proxy, Splunk or similar logging tools and server logs itself.
Must be able to learn and understand End to End Systems Workflows.

Nice To Haves

Have prior experience with desktop, mobile and connected device and OTT development or support
Ability to self-start, self-manage, meet deadlines, and learn from mistakes
Familiarity with Automation Frameworks (Selenium, Cypress)
Experience in defining and maintaining automation framework
Understanding of DevOps principles
Have a passion for digital media platforms and entertainment industries
Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
Familiarity with basic product support a plus
Highly organized and able to prioritize and track multiple deliverable and projects

Responsibilities

Design and review test cases to increase the quality of the embedded runtime with each release
Work across orgs to align with other Senior QA Engineers on the coverage of the test suite
Propose ideas on improving the efficiency of the test cycle
Collaborate with the engineers on the team for reporting issues as well as testing the features and fixes
Monitor releases as issues may arise to reduce the response time
Manage the creation, updates and status of issues detected during the test execution phase
Report Test execution status to Engineering Managers, Project Managers and Release Managers to ensure that all project deliverables are appropriately verified and approved for both distribution for owner verification and for final code deployment/ submission
Cover both E2E & UAT Testing from a user’s perspective