QA Automation Lead

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.     

The Peacock Technology team is seeking a QA Automation Lead. The QA Automation Lead on the Direct-to-Consumer team will be required to use industry standard tools to lead Automation initiative on applications and digital products from the NBCU team.

• Design a process to implement Automation framework for testcases with the territory (US & International Market) expertise and be able to use your own initiative to automate the current test pack for testing the applications to the core that are being built by offshore team
• Create robust and scalable automated test suites to be run within a continuous integration workflow and in local development environments
• Implement performance and Load test, and integrate with CI/CD framework
• Create automated release regression test verification (per platform) of OTT devices in scope
• Write and maintain common test libraries, utilities in Java/JavaScript/Python test framework
• Participate in Agile planning & delivery process.
• Perform technical root cause analysis of defects found.
• Work closely with Site Reliability Teams to validate Platform readiness.
• Create Automated Test Execution reports to be shared with Stake holders.
• Cover both E2E & UAT Testing from a user’s perspective

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands on experience with Automation Frameworks like Selenium, Webdriver, Cypress etc.
• At least 2 years of experience working as Test Automation Lead.
• Strong programming skills in JavaScript or similar scripting languages (Java, Python, C#, Ruby)
• Experienced in TDD and BDD.
• Experience with CI environments such as Circle CI, Travis, or Jenkins
• Experienced in website support and Automated Testing for dynamic web applications.
• 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 One, PS4, etc.)
• Experience with testing and automating REST APIs and experienced on tools like POSTMAN, SOAPUI etc
• Familiarity with applications supporting video/media playback
• Experience with building test plans and coordinating QA/UAT with functional teams
• 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.

Desired Qualifications:

• 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
• Mobile Device Automation using (Browser Stack, Appium, Espresso)
• Understanding of DevOps principles
• Have a passion for digital media platforms and entertainment industries
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
• Ability to adap