Senior Manager, Software Engineering in Test

3 Months ago • 14-18 Years • Quality Assurance

Job Summary

Job Description

Warner Bros. Discovery seeks a Senior Manager, Software Engineering in Test to lead and grow a QA team. Responsibilities include architecting and coding automated tests across multiple pipelines, establishing best practices, and ensuring high-quality feature delivery. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in test automation, framework development, and working with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment. They'll also contribute to test plans, determine defect severity, improve automation efforts, and collaborate with stakeholders. The role requires expertise in various testing methodologies (unit, integration, regression, E2E), and experience with tools like Python, Java, Selenium, and CI/CD pipelines. The candidate should be comfortable in a fast-paced environment, capable of handling multiple priorities, and able to mentor team members.
Must have:
  • 14+ years experience in QA engineering
  • Strong automation skills (Python, Java, Selenium)
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Agile
  • Framework development expertise
  • Leadership and team growth experience
Good to have:
  • Experience with AI testing
  • Knowledge of data engineering systems
  • Performance testing experience
Perks:
  • Great Place to work
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Fast track growth opportunities

Job Details

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Job Title: Sr Manager, Software Engineer in Test

Location: Bangalore

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com

Meet Our Team:

The Content Systems Engineering (MSC) team builds applications and services that power Warner Bros. Discovery’s content supply chain, supporting the entire media lifecycle—from idea to distribution. Our solutions enable thousands of internal users to seamlessly produce and distribute content across platforms, including Discovery+.

Roles & Responsibilities:

We are hiring Software engineering manager in Test to join our team.  The ideal candidate will have a passion for test automation, strike a balance between test coverage and test quality, architect and code automated tests across multiple delivery pipelines, and establish best practices & processes which improve developer efficiencies and product quality. The ideal candidate should understand the Automation development framework design and architecture across backend, data and frontend systems.

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.

Expectations:

Scope and Complexity: You have subject-matter expertise related to one or more production software systems and demonstrated a pattern of ensuring the high-quality delivery of feature changes in those, or similar, systems.  You execute and build automated tests by contributing new code that builds on top of what other engineers have written. Decision Making: You can contribute to test plans for more complex feature enhancements involving yourself and one or more additional engineers. You make clear determinations on defect severity based on considerations of customer experience.  Execution: You need little oversight to work within the team’s software development lifecycle practices. You can help newcomers to be productive with the team’s processes. You consistently contribute to and improve automation efforts through direct code contribution and/ or integration of automation into the software development life cycle. You use your knowledge of interconnected systems and technology to come up with methods to test difficult cases.  Operations You think about the long-term health of your test suites, both manual and automated, and you endeavor to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of release/ deployment processes through proper stakeholder communications, documentation, and use of monitoring tools.  Influence You ensure that testing efforts and testability are considered when new features are being planned and built. Your team trusts your work and the feedback that you give to them on their work. Communication You are an effective communicator as exemplified by your documentation and your interactions with stakeholders and adjacent teams. 

What to bring:

  • 14-18 years of experience in building and growing a distributed team of quality assurance engineers with strong skills in framework development, test case development, test automation, test case optimization, load test execution, and test result reporting.

  • 5+ years’ experience in large scale global product launches through a scalable automated release pipeline workflow leveraging CICD workflows and QA automation workflows.

  • Understanding of QA automation workflows, CICD release pipelines, test environments across multiple products and release within an agile development framework.

  • Experience of working with backend services engineering and QA teams to coordinate dependencies and release planning.

  • Knowledge on Python, Java, JavaScript, AWS, Selenium, Postman and tools like JIRA, Docker, Grafana, Jenkins, Github.

  • Have participated in building Automation frameworks for large and complex applications using Pytest, Cucumber and Performance testing tools.

  • Have ability to work collaboratively within a team environment to meet aggressive goals and pre-defined measurement criteria

  • Have strong written communication, problem solving, process management, cross-team collaboration, and high customer empathy

  • Comfortable handling multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

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

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

  • Knowledge of various test activities across release pipelines to promote artifacts from lower environments like dev, QA to prod environments, including unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, E2E testing etc.

  • Good understand of data engineering systems, includes data ingestion, data analytics and reporting for Qa and automation perspective.

  • Demonstrated ability to define and present metrics that help illuminate our quality and quality goals.

  • Proven ability to hire top talent and develop team members into roles of greater responsibility.

What We Offer:

•            A Great Place to work

•            Equal opportunity employer

•            Fast track growth opportunities

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

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