Quality Engineering Manager

Job Description

Paramount is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates premium content and experiences for audiences worldwide. Driven by iconic consumer brands, its portfolio includes CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount+, Pluto TV and Simon & Schuster, among others. The company delivers the largest share of the US television audience and boasts one of the industry's most important and extensive libraries of TV and film titles. In addition to offering innovative streaming services and digital video products, Paramount provides powerful capabilities in production, distribution and advertising solutions for partners on five continents.

A Manager of Quality Engineering leads all aspects of testing and monitoring activities across several software development teams, supporting multiple platforms (web, native mobile, connected & smart TVs). You will lead a distributed team of test engineers to build new and/or enhance existing testing scripts and tools to be used in validating functionality, usability, performance, scalability, security, etc. You will be hands-on and assist the various project teams throughout day-to-day operations. As code is continually integrated multiple times per day, test coverage and automation is crucial in allowing product to deliver quick to market while maintaining the high level of quality our consumers deserve across our many diverse platforms.

Responsibilities
• Manage a team of quality engineers providing software testing support for Paramount brand apps & sites.
• Work alongside and mentor other test engineers to continuously improve testing strategies and processes.
• Conduct code reviews of test automation contributions.
• Work with product/project teams developing test plans, test cases and test execution.
• Oversee and perform load / performance testing where applicable.
• Partner with software engineering to design and develop tools that help developers be more productive and assist in continuous development initiatives
• Operate in an agile software delivery methodology focused on testing new features within an iteration and providing near immediate feedback to engineers through test automation
• Assure adherence to established quality standards for software test development, integration, performance, and reporting
• Assist in defining test tools and processes while leveraging methodologies primarily based on automation
• Have a ''Quality at Speed'' mindset – the art of balancing the constant need of delivering new product(s) while maintaining a high level of quality
• Contribute to and help maintain the Viacom testing framework for various types of testing (functional, load/performance, security) on multiple platforms (web, iOS/Android, emerging platforms)
• Effectively communicate complex and/or difficult information to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Work in a fast-paced, agile, dynamic environment supporting many products on varied release cycles

Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree or greater in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or a related discipline
• 8+ years of test engineering experience and 3+ years of supervisory/management experience
• 5+ years of designing and working with test automation frameworks and developing automated test scripts (web, mobile & emerging technologies) specifically object oriented frameworks
• Experience with Agile Development processes
• Proven experience with managing the testing efforts around high traffic websites/apps including live online events
• Experience in leading teams to define Quality processes specifically around test automation

Additional Qualifications
• Strong knowledge of software quality practices and ability to learn & adopt emerging concepts
• Strong software development and technical architecture skills
• Experience interacting with senior leadership and being the voice of change for improved strategic direction
• Ability to interact with dev/ops team and assist in troubleshooting issues
• Experience working with cloud based architectures and tools (AWS, Microsoft, Google)
• Experience with Agile testing methodologies
• Demonstrated knowledge of a dynamic content management system delivering content to various endpoints
• Technical/working knowledge of information technology concepts, local and wide area networks, content delivery networks, database theory, and solid understanding on caching strategies
• Strong object oriented programming background and a passion for scalability, reliability and reusable code
• Experience with at least one of popular programming languages (Java, C#, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Python). Experience in Java strongly preferred
• Experience with version control systems (svn, git, stash)
• Experience with test tools (Selenium, Webdriver, Junit, TestNG, Appium, etc)
• Proficient with continuous development tools and build tools (Jenkins, Bamboo, etc.)
• Experience with performance testing tools (jMeter, LoadRunner, etc.)
• Knowledge of proxy tools (Charles, Fiddler, Httpwatch)
• Experience with online advertising, online research and analytics tools
• Experience with online streaming video experiences like HLS a plus
• TDD and BDD experience a plus

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

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rvpk6n-3-138-174-95-42 in your application.