QA Engineer

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.

Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. We strive to foster a diverse and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. We believe that our workforce should represent the communities we live in, so that together, we can continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world. Click here to learn more about Comcast NBCUniversal’s commitment and how we are making an impact.

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.

Essential Functions (Responsibilities):

• Static testing of User Stories, Requirements, following analysis and report back any ambiguities and gaps to the Business Analyst and Product Owner for clarification
• Create and execute test documentation
• Manage test results and reports
• Collaboratively communicate with project stakeholders
• Be proactive and willing to take on responsibility
• Represent the QA team in project, progress, status meetings
• Estimate testing efforts with reasonable accuracy, including contingency
• Be a matter expert on the project and share knowledge throughout the team
• Active contribution to automation and manual testing in various testing types – Component, Functional, Usability, Exploratory, Sanity, Regression, Integration and End to End Testing
• Drive improvement throughout the team
• Research test tools, methodologies, and trends to contribute to the upgrading of existing practices and processes

Qualifications

• Industry experience and a successful track record in software testing
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies, test practice and terminology and ability to apply them independently and collaboratively
• Proficiency in SDLC and STLC
• Experience in defining of the acceptance criteria within the cross functional development team
• Ability to demonstrate strong communication skills and a focused, determined,
   pro-active attitude
• Experience using Test management and issues logging tools such as JIRA, GitHub, Zephyr
• Strong knowledge of Charles/Fiddler or other proxy tools
• Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to analyze logs
• Ability to identify risks and assumptions made and bring them to the team’s attention
• Experience in writing and executing test cases - using automation where possible - to validate quality of features in line with acceptance criteria and test standards
• Proficiency in version control, PR standards, best practices in maintaining quality code for automation tests and utilizing CI/CD pipeline release cycles
• Ability to create and maintain Test Automation Frameworks with Java, Maven, Selenium WebDriver, Cypress or similar
• Experienced in Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Data Driven Development frameworks
• Understanding of XML, JSON, REST, SOAP
• Experience in validating and verifying APIs using testing tools such as Postman
• Experienced in AWS Products and services
• Knowledge in video streaming and delivery, video ads insertion and applicable testing approaches

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 wit