Automation Quality Engineer, VE

Company Description

NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.

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Job Description

Our Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) portfolio is a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands, supported by media industry leaders, Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky. When you join our team, you’ll work across our dynamic portfolio including Peacock, NOW, Fandango, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and TV Everywhere, powering streaming across more than 70 countries globally. And the evolution doesn’t stop there. 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. 

Responsibilities:

• Liaise with product owners and stakeholders to review acceptance criteria and technical specifications
• Create and maintain test documentation
• Perform a range of behavioral driven development (BDD) activities
• Collaborate with the team to ensure quality is considered at every stage of the lifecycle
• Own defect management and perform knowledgeable analysis of the testing results
• Effectively utilize applicable testing tools and be proactive in improving team tech stack
• Define and create new automation test scripts
• Contribute to the creation and update of the automation test strategy
• Maintain automation code quality standards
• Work toward reducing of the time spent on manual testing and increase operational efficiency

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Software Quality Engineering in related industry
• 2+ years of experience in test automation at a coding level
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies, test practice and terminology at all SDLC and STLC phases
• Strong communication, organizational and interpersonal skills
• Experience using test management tools such as Zephyr or TestRail and project management/defect logging tools such as JIRA or GitHub
• Strong knowledge of proxy and debugging tools (Charles, Fiddler, or similar)
• Excellent trouble-shooting skills with the ability to analyze logs and detect root cause of the issue
• Experience working on Kubernetes, Docker, Concourse and cloud infrastructure like AWS
• Understanding of cloud based video streaming ecosystem
• Understanding of Ad insertion, video encryption and advanced video features
• Experience of test automation frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Cypress) and associated design patterns
• Proficient in JavaScript, Python, Java or another programming and scripting languages
• Proficiency in versioning control, PR standards, best practices in maintaining quality code for automation scripts and utilizing CI/CD pipeline release cycles
• Solid knowledge in API testing and tools like Postman, SoapUI, Insomnia, etc
• Working knowledge of video packaging, encoding and delivery
• Experience with video and audio codec testing
• Experience working with NewRelic, Grafana or similar observability platform
• Knowledge in relational and non-relational database as well as tools such as DataGrip, pgAdmin 4, MongoDB Compass, etc

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $90,000- $125,000

Additional Information

NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identit