Senior Software Engineer - GQA Team

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.

Senior Software Engineer - Java Full Stack (GQA Team), 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 WarnerMedia's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Warner Bros Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com

Meet Our Team:

The Global QA - Quality Engineering - Automation Framework and Tools team is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the Automation frameworks and tools that enables Test Engineering teams to develop and maintain test automation across multiple different client platforms. This team provides Framework as a Service model to the automation teams which includes critical capabilities from test injection to test reporting. We build tools and applications with an automate everything mindset, to bring efficiency across the organization. We are responsible for bringing innovative solutions and processes with a quality first mind set as we scale our global platform.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• We are hiring Sr. Software Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for building software libraries, framework and tools (Platform-as-a-Service), strike a balance between engineering excellence and test quality, architect and develop solutions 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 the ability to handle multiple initiatives as part of the overall product release pipeline. You are a key influencer in your team’s strategy and contribute significantly to team planning. You show good judgment 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 tiebreak key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to others.

• Scope: You are a recognized subject matter expert related to one or more production software systems and have demonstrated a pattern of independently shipping high quality features changes in those or similar systems. Works on problems of diverse scope.

• Impact: Creates functional level impact, delivers more complex features. Helps drive clarity and define problems proactively.

• Problem Definition & Complexity: Devises solutions based on limited information and precedent and adapts existing approaches to resolve issues. Uses evaluation, judgment, and interpretation to select the right course of action.

• Execution: You need little oversight to work within the team’s software development lifecycle practices. You deliver high-quality results the first time and improve code, documentation,and results with each iteration. Autonomous in driving implementations. Work is done independently and is reviewed at critical points. Helps create an inclusive and supportive engineering culture.

• Influence: You are persuasive in influencing your peers through code reviews or design reviews. Your team trusts your work and the feedback that you give to them on their work.You are an effective communicator as exemplified by your technical documentation, and your interactions with stakeholders and adjacent teams. Adapts communication style to differing audiences and can advise others on difficult matter

• Process Improvement: You think about the long-term health of your code, your monitoring, your alerting, and your documentation. You nurture all of these in parallel to your software development responsibilities.

• Mentorship: You help newcomers to be productive with the team’s processes. Optimizes team mechanisms to drive efficiency.

What to Bring:
● 5 – 7 years of experience in software application development building libraries, frameworks and tools; Brings in high proficiency and technical leadership
● Expertise in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python or other similar programming languages
● Develop high-quality software design and architecture
● 1+ experience working on cloud technologies like AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
● Experience working with Rest APIs, gRPC
● Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing using frameworks
like Jest, Cypress, Cucumber or similar.
● Experience working on CI/CD delivery model using Github actions, Armory or any other tools
● Exposure to automation frameworks like Appium, Selenium, Suitest and other similar frameworks
● Exposure to working on Report portal, Grafana and other reporting tools
● Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts,
diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code
● Well versed with Scrum methodologies, Jira, defect life cycle, version control tools
● Nice to having experience working with different device types and operating systems such as Windows, OSX, iOS, tvOS, Android, Roku, FireTV, Xbox, Playstation, Tizen, WebOS & SetTop boxes
● Nice to have exposure or experience with device farms like Browserstack, Sauce Lab, Headspin
● Able to drive and steer discussions and meetings to achieve desired goals
● 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
● Good verbal and written communication skills

What We Offer:
● A Great Place to work
● Equal opportunity employer
● Fast track growth opportunity

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.

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