Senior Software Engineer-Test

Company 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. 

Job Description

Welcome to Peacock, the dynamic new streaming service from NBCUniversal. Here you’ll find more than a job. You’ll find a fast-paced, high-performance team of incredible colleagues that want to be at the epicenter of technology, sports, news, tv, movies and more. We work hard to connect people to what they love, each other and the world around them by creating shared experiences through culture-defining entertainment.  

As a company, we embrace the power of difference. Our team is committed to creating an organization that champions diversity and inclusivity for all by curating content and a workforce that represents the world around us.  We continue to challenge ourselves and the industry by being customer-centric, data-driven creatures of innovation. At Peacock, we are determined to forge the next frontier of streaming through creativity, teamwork, and talent.  

The Playback Services is responsible for building all playback-related functionality in Peacock OTT products. We work closely with the application teams in Sky Go, NOW TV, Sky Sports, NBC Sports, Vudu, Comcast and others to ensure that common functionality is built in a reliable, scalable and efficient way.

We build a video SDK which our colleagues across Sky use to achieve effortless video playback on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Samsung TV, LG TV, PlayStation, Xbox, Roku, Android TV, Fire TV, Chromecast and other devices.

The Test Automation team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to grow and develop our test automation framework. Software Engineer will drive Test Automation in partnership with leadership and senior engineers across multiple internal and external teams, including quality, video, and player teams.
Sucessful candidate in this role will provide technical/Hands-on expertise in design and architecture of the automation framework, and will ensure adoption of the framework in all the QE teams in the organization. He/she should be master in modern testing techniques and tools, including autiomation.
Responsibilities:

• Successful candidate will take ownership of building/implementing test automation solution/framework. 

• Supports automation scripts development and the optimization of those scripts. 

• Recommend new tools, techniques and methodologies needed to enhance productivity and quality. 

• Collaborate with product teams to strategize & align long term solutions for test automation including roadmap, tools, framework & approach. 

• Evaluate, select, and formulate the best usage of test automation tools. 

• Evaluate future alignment for new tools, products, and applications. 

• Create standard frameworks for Functional Automation, Performance Testing and Security and Penetration Testing. 

• Document and demonstrate solutions to development and test teams.  

• Drive technical initiatives in partnership with senior engineers across various development teams. 

• Constantly work to improve test delivery and operational processes. 

• Determine and meet time estimates and schedules for test automation efforts. 

• Help define test plans and entry/exit criteria. 

• Understand and work toward strategic direction set by senior management. 

Qualifications

• Performing test planning, and designing and executing requirements that impact multiple systems in a multi-vendor environment; 

• Performing systems testing cycles, including integration testing, functional testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), and regression testing; 

• Identifying, prioritizing, and tracking defects; and 

• Utilizing Selenium, Cucumber, Robot framework, Appium and Cypress for automation testing. 

• Experience in OO programming languages like Java, .NET, C#, JavaScript, and Python. 

Desired Characteristics: 

• Demonstrated skill in using coding standards and being an active participant in code revie