Middle QA Automation Engineer for Online TV Streaming Giant Offline

About the Client

Founded in 2013, our client is a hugely popular, cutting-edge online streaming television company from California. This free broadcasting service provides millions of viewers with more than 100 exclusive live and original channels that users won’t find on local TV. The content is full of TV shows of all kinds, premium news, on-demand movies, cartoons, viral videos, sports, lifestyle and trending digital series. In a nutshell, there is literally everything you’d like to see on your screen – hand-picked by people who know and love the entertainment industry.

More so, they offer a free app that runs seamlessly on multiple mobile, web and various connected TV streaming devices. Well-known online giants The Verge, Venture Beat, and Vibe declared our customer as ‘awesome’. So, we can say for sure that our client is redefining the future of television.

About the Project

Our client is led by a seasoned team of entrepreneurs, TV and technology executives, and top-of-class team members. $43M+ funding with investors like US Venture Partners, Sky, Chicago Ventures, Universal Music Group, United Talent Agency and Pritzker Group.Top app with millions of users across platforms like web, iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Vizio, Samsung, and more.

One of the hottest startups in Los Angeles and one of the leading video platforms in the industry -often covered in NY Times, Forbes, Techcrunch, Variety, USA Today, CNN, Mashable and more!

High energy culture. Passionate entrepreneurial team. Massive market. Employing the best of the best in the industry. We’re building the future of television.

About the Team

Our team is led by some of the best entrepreneurs and executives in media and technology. Our Executive Chairman was the Chief Content Officer of Spotify. Our co-founder and CEO was the CEO of Threadless and board member of Trunk Club and Smule. Our principal architect built the first Roku for Netflix. You’ll be joining a world-class startup team, with multiple exits under their belt, to build the future of television.

Our team solves business and technology problems. We run many experiments. We iterate on successful tests and turn them into products. We deploy those products across our apps to millions of users. We obsess over data. We run a lean, agile, vegan, non-GMO, all organic development process. Our team is aligned with company goals and KPIs. We have autonomy on how to solve problems. We bring out the entrepreneur in every engineer. We work together to build the future of TV.

Responsibilities:

Your primary focus, as a QA Automation Engineer, will be on testing and decision making. You also will communicate with the rest of the team (US and Ukraine) working on establishing procedures, validating releases and enforcing quality standards for the product. You will provide development and maintenance of test plans, test cases and test automation systems covering all aspects of the software.

Detailed list of responsibilities:

- Create test plans for individual feature sets

- Design and develop functional test plans and automated test cases

Skills:

- Native applications / OTT Platforms functional testing experience

- Formal testing experience from planning to execution

- Automation experience using frameworks

- 3+ years of testing experience on OTT platforms (preferably Android)

- 2+ years experience leading testing activities

- 3+ years of experience as a test engineer within an Agile environment

- 3+ years of experience in a functional testing role

- 3+ years of hands-on experience with developing automated functional tests

As a big Plus:

- Experience in Video Content Delivery Experience

- Exposure to Agile Management tools such as Jira

- Working experience with common automation frameworks