Senior QA Automation Engineer

Job Description

Paramount+, a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service from ViacomCBS, combines live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment. The premium streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. The service is also the streaming home to unmatched sports programming, including every CBS Sports event, from golf to football to basketball and more, plus exclusive streaming rights for major sports properties, including some of the world's biggest and most popular soccer leagues. Paramount+ also enables subscribers to stream local CBS stations live across the US in addition to the ability to stream ViacomCBS Streaming's other live channels: CBSN for 24/7 news, CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis, and ET Live for entertainment coverage.

Truly premium content. At true scale. Only CBSi. CBS Interactive is the premier online content network for information and online operations of CBS Corporation as well as some of the top native digital brands in the entertainment industry. Our brands dive deep into the things people care about across entertainment, technology, news, games, business, and sports. With over 1 billion users visiting our properties every quarter, we are a global top 10 web property and one of the largest premium content networks online. ViacomCBS Streaming (formerly CBS Interactive) is a division of ViacomCBS that encompasses both free, paid, and premium streaming services including Pluto TV, Paramount +, CBS Sports Digital, and CBS News Digital.
Overview & Responsibilities

This is a Senior QA Engineer for Paramountplus.com and ViacomCBS. Are you interested in new media, social activities and television? Paramount Plus is developing the next generation of multimedia and cross-platform entertainment. The team at paramountplus.com values software which exemplifies simplicity of design, maintainability and foundational robustness.

As a Senior QA Engineer, you are expected to think critically and ensure quality throughout the mobile automation system. The ideal candidate will work with developers, product managers, QA team members, and operations team members to ensure deliverables are timely and meet expectations. This role requires the ability to facilitate and manage mobile automation processes including code quality and making overarching technical decisions, as well as managing the QA Engineers already working in the automation team.

Responsibilities
• Oversee Associate QA Engineers to ensure code pushed into the repository is high quality and reviewed.
• Create tools that can make the manual and automation QA teams' tasks more easily manageable.
• Maintain and adjust the automation roadmap to complement the feature roadmap.
• Work closely with the rest of the QA team to ensure most valuable automation coverage.
• Additional other duties and responsibilities, as assigned.
• Analyze and adjust automation architecture to make it scalable as more features are added, across several different platforms.
• Create system so that tools are accessible as needed to the QA team and other teams, as needed.
• Work with various engineering teams to integrate QA system with all available build systems.
• Define the test automation framework, scripting and make sure the team is delivering them within expected timelines.

Basic Qualifications:
• 4+ years of experience in advanced Java, Selenium, API automation.
• Coaching, training, and mentoring QA engineers and ensuring that quality standards are met across the entire team (2-5 people).
• Experience using Jenkins or similar CI/CD tools.
• Ability to write/execute test cases/suites for multi-platform application software.
• Experience with Postman, Charles Proxy, and/or Rest Assured.
• Outstanding communication, organizational and interpersonal skills with both a technical and non-technical audience.
• Work to consistently improve testing efficiency – including for regression testing.

Additional Qualifications
• BA/BS in computer science or any related technical field, or equivalent work experience.
• Actively tested for defect across multiple platforms.
• Knowledge of video technologies in both objective C and java.
• Strong understanding of agile test tools and methodologies.

ViacomCBS is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

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