Software Development Engineer - Front End

Job Description

The Direct to Consumer Group is a technology company within the Discovery brand. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT), and a suite of applications to support all of our network's brands globally. We are building modern container-based microservices operated on AWS. Our platform covers everything from search, catalogue, video transcoding, personalization, to global subscriptions, and really much more. We build user experiences ranging from classic lean-back viewing to interactive learning applications. We build for connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles for a large footprint of Discovery-owned networks (Food Network, Golf TV, MotorTrend, Eurosport, Discovery Plus, and many more) This is a growing, global engineering group crucial to Discovery's future.

Key Responsibilities

We are hiring senior software development engineers to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for digital automation, strike a balance between feature velocity and product quality, architect and code frameworks across multiple delivery pipelines, and establish best practices & processes which improve developer efficiencies and product quality.

The ideal candidate will also have a track record of having worked with multiple cross-functional teams and test activities as part of the overall product release pipeline. Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You are a key influencer in your team's strategy and contribute significantly to team planning. You show good judgement making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs. You are a collaborative partner that makes other team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to others.

Key Requirements
• Able to lead a small engineering team to architect, develop, and deploy large-scale automation frameworks across multiple engineering teams.

• Experience driving technical feature design and implementation on test automation pipelines

• Ability to scout emerging industry trends such as AI testing and other best-in-class processes.

• Able to drive and steer discussions and meetings to achieve desired goals.

• Understanding of test cases, test data, test runs, and test results management that provides feedback and visibility to qualify & quantify test coverage.

• Ability to collaborate with technology resources on projects given solid understanding of current technologies and trends.

• Knowledge of industry best practices for technical documentation.

• Able to collaborate and work with development teams across multiple time zones and locations.

• Ability to focus both strategically and tactically to achieve business goals, including the use of data to drive improvements.

• AWS, Selenium, Watir, JIRA, Testrail, Apache test tools, cucumber, Docker, Grafana, Jenkins, Jenkins Pipelines, CircleCi, Appium, Confluence and JIRA admin tool experience

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