Software Engineer (Test Automation, Tools and Frameworks)

About Crunchyroll

Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it’s powered by the anime content we all love.

Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!

About the role

Crunchyroll is growing rapidly, presenting exciting challenges and opportunities as we support millions of anime fans around the world. The Reliability Engineering team plays a critical role in ensuring Crunchyroll fans have an exceptional anime experience across Web Browsers and consumer electronic devices - including TVs, set-top boxes, and game consoles.

As part of this dynamic team, you’ll help shape the future of quality at scale by developing automated tests, tools, frameworks and infrastructure. Your work will enable us to move faster, scale efficiently, and deliver exceptional anime experiences to even more fans around the globe.

What you will be doing:

• Develop automated tests and tools for the consumer electronics devices our fans use to enjoy Crunchyroll, with a focus on scalability and reliability
• Innovatively create and develop techniques to automate manual activities in our development and testing process
• Own the end-to-end tests executed in our CI/CD pipeline, with responsibility for triaging failures and reporting results
• Operate in a highly cross-functional environment where you can leverage multiple teams to help our partners be successful
• Set direction and build consensus to drive long-term positive impact on the engineering ecosystem
• Evangelize and drive adoption of software development best practices in code health, quality and test stability through frameworks and information sharing, not rules and process

Qualifications

• We are looking for a creative and highly motivated individual who is excited to take on challenging projects and help drive the future of scaling partner device reliability
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, and/or 5+ years of practical experience
• Experience building automated tests for web applications leveraging HTML5
• Strong proficiency in Javascript/Typescript for test automation. Experience with Kotlin is highly valuable.
• Proven experience with web test automation frameworks, particularly Appium, Selenium WebDriver and WebdriverIO.
• Strong experience working with CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions.
• A passion for quality and innovation
• Experience developing, managing, and automating test cases, test harnesses and frameworks, as well as expertise in utilizing the latest technologies and tools will be essential
• Practical experience developing automation to run on consumer electronics devices
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with other engineers, product managers and program managers.

About our Values

We want to be everything for someone rather than something for everyone and we do this by living and modeling our values in all that we do. We value

• Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
• Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
• Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.
• Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion

Our mission of helping people belong reflects our commitment to diversity & inclusion. It's just the way we do business.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll. Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Crunchyroll, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan's Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.

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