Sr. QA Engineer

Teamwork makes the stream work.

Roku is changing how the world watches TV

Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the US and Mexico, and we've set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers.

From your first day at Roku, you'll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We're a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines.

 

About the Team

The Roku Smart Home QA team plays a vital role in ensuring that the Roku Smart Home products meet the highest standards of quality and performance. We adopt a collaborative approach, working closely with product, UX, and engineering teams to create effective testing strategies. Our team utilizes a combination of automated and manual testing techniques to ensure that every feature/product/app is rigorously tested end-to-end before release. As part of our commitment to continuous improvement, we encourage team members to share insights and propose innovative solutions. If you are passionate about quality and eager to make an impact, we invite you to join our dynamic QA team!

 

About the Role

Roku is on a mission to deliver the simplest, most accessible, and best smart home experience. Our Roku Smart Home provides a range of products for home automation, including security cameras, smart plugs and lighting solutions. They are designed to integrate smoothly with Roku smart TVs and players, improving the overall user experience by connecting with existing Roku services. Our Roku Smart Home products also work with 3rd party systems such as Alexa and Google Home. We are seeking a senior QA engineer who is passionate about moving testing into automation. This role will be working closely with engineering teams and will need to define test strategies and execute these in collaboration to deliver excellent Smart Home products and services.

For California Only - The estimated annual salary for this position is between $133,000 - $261,000 annually. Compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, certifications, and specific geographical location.

This role is eligible for health insurance, equity awards, life insurance, disability benefits, parental leave, wellness benefits, and paid time off.

 

What you’ll be doing:

• Driving products and features to completeness
• Develop and execute test case and new features, with a goal of automating tests
• Contribute to develop test strategies, that allow more modular and safe testing, ensuring that modular and automated tests become an integral part of end-to-end testing, expandable to new feature and products
• Apply analytical skills to assist with reproducing, isolate, and debug issues, and providing detailed bug reports
• Record all test results for each test suite and report on results and disseminate information to provide a high-level summary of areas tested
• Assist in the certification process for partner devices to ensure compatibility with Roku
• Estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate quality testing activities
• Automate tests to ensure sufficient coverage for IOT firmware/mobile app/cloud services, and ensuring that test stays fresh and does not break
• Assist in test lab setup, monitoring and maintenance of IOT automation
• Assist in reviewing automation execution test results and deliver summarize test report to stakeholders

 

We’re excited if you have

• 6+ years quality assurance experience
• B.S.degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
• Experience with feature, product, and system end-to-end integration testing
• Experience and willing to work in a rapid pace environment
• Experience and willing to work with remote teams in different time zones
• Strong programming skills, preferably with Python
• Experience developing test scripts, modules and functions
• Solid knowledge and experience developing test plans, test cases and reporting bugs
• Strong problem solving, analytical and technical troubleshooting skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Experience working with IOT products (such as security cameras, sensors, lighting and power products), mobile app, Smart/Digital TV (HDMI), setup boxes, WiFi (2.4GHz & 5GHz)
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