Senior Software Engineer in Test

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: Senior 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 team builds the applications and services that power Warner Bros Discovery’s content supply chain.  Our applications cover the entire breadth of the media supply chain, from idea to distribution.  We have a robust global community of thousands of internal Warner Bros Discovery users who rely on our apps every day to get television produced, on the air, and onto Discovery+.

Roles & Responsibilities:

We are hiring quality assurance engineers 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 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:

• 5 – 8 years of experience in Backend service testing, Rest-api testing, Web application testing.

• Experience driving test design and implementation

• Understanding of multiple test types including unit, functional, integration, end to end, security, performance, load, and UI tests. 

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

• 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. 

• 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.

• Reviews automated test run results and verifies results

• Triages test failures and determine if the failed test is the result of a bug or an issue with the test script or test data

• Ability to add new features and enhancements to existing Automation framework

• Able to organize test case inventories that minimize the number of test cases while maximizing the amount of test coverage.

• Writes high quality automated test cases using existing frameworks

• Python, Java, JavaScript, AWS, Selenium, Postman, JIRA, Cucumber, Docker, Grafana, Jenkins Pipelines, Github knowledge

• Performance testing knowledge using tools like JMeter, K6, Gatling

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.

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