Senior Quality 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. 

The Core Video Team is responsible for building all playback-related functionality in Peacock products. We work closely with the application teams in Sky Go, NOW TV, Sky Sports, NBCU TVE, SkyShowtime 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 NBCU and SKY use to achieve effortless video playback on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Samsung TV, LG TV, PlayStation, Xbox, Roku, Chromecast and other devices.

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.  

Peacock is looking for a Quality Engineer to join a team ensuring high quality of video playback experience across a wide range of devices. You will become a part of an engineering team building video players and video playback capabilities, streaming content to millions of customers

Responsibilities:

• Create test plans/packs and execution within Zephyr – Test Management Tool
• Liaising with project product owners to clarify player behavior.
• Provide knowledge and share throughout the team.
• Management of test results and reports
• Regular liaisons with project teams to understand test requirements.
• Drive Improvement throughout the team
• Represent the QA team in project/progress/status meetings.
• Implement tests to analyze the health of backend video services.
• Monitor and implement performance tests for potential bottlenecks.
• Mentoring of junior Quality Engineers.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on Quality Engineering experience
• Industry experience and a successful track record in video players testing web, mobile and Cross TV applications.
• Awareness of streaming technology, AV codecs, DRMs
• Knowledge of color space, bit depth, and HDR systems
• Familiarity with streaming protocols (HLS/DASH)
• Experience with H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, VP9, AAC video and autio codec standards.
• Excellent programming skills in Javascript/Nodejs or equivalent and coding skills in python/go/java. Experience on building automation frameworks like pytest/testNG is a plus.
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies, test practice and terminology
• Ability to demonstrate strong communication skills and a focused, determined,
  pro-active attitude.
• Experience using Test management tools: ideally Zephyr and fault logging tools; ideally GitHub or JIRA
• Strong knowledge of Charles/Fiddler or other debugging proxy tools
• Excellent trouble shooting skills with the ability to analyze logs.
• Experience with performance/load testing frameworks