Software Engineer, Test Automation

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

At Peacock, the dynamic new streaming service from NBCUniversal you’ll find more than a job. Here you’ll find a fast-paced, high-flying team of unique birds who 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 Software Engineer to 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.
Successful 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 automation.

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 reviews.

Expert in automation frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, and Cypress.

API level test automation expertise

Experience with web service technology like XML, JSON, REST.

Experience in high volume, high throughput video platform/SDK environment.

Experienced in implementing testing and QA frameworks in Video Playback Applications’ domain using Agile methodologies.

Expertise with web performance infrastructure (CDNs, caching, reverse-proxies) and cloud resources (AWS, Azure).

Involvement in implementation of CI/CD pipeline release cycles.

Competent in TDD, BDD, ATDD approaches;

Thorough understanding and hands on experience in developing, enhancing automation testing frameworks.

Strong knowledge of Charles/Fiddler or other debugging proxy tools

Excellent trouble shooting skills with the ability to analyze logs

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, 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: $110,000-$160,000

Additional Information

NBCUniversal’s policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable.

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