Staff Software Engineer in Test - SDET (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.

Staff Software Engineer in Test - SDET (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 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 Global QA team helps to span development, execution and reporting on various test activities as it relates to the Global Warner Bros. Discovery product. They will be responsible for technology, tools, automation initiatives as it relates to QA activities working with Frontend Client and Backend service teams spread across US / EMEA / APAC teams. The QA team works closely with the Quality engineering and framework team to consume the QA-aaS pipeline and drive improvements to QA automation activities as we scale our global platform.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Scope and Complexity: You have acquired subject-matter expertise over one or more production software systems and demonstrated a pattern of shipping high quality feature changes in that or those system(s).

• Decision Making: You solve business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices. You are able to lead the design and development of the most complex enhancements.

• Execution: You have built multiple stable, scalable feature changes that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.

• Operations Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You are a role model to other teams. Your software contributions in production are the model of highly available, low latency, and efficient software. Your documentation in code, on technical designs, and operations provide clarity to any engineer interacting with your software or its code.

• Influence You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to other engineers.

• Communication You are an effective communicator as exemplified by your technical documentation, and your interactions with stakeholder and adjacent teams. You can effectively represent the technical decisions from your team to senior stakeholders.

What to Bring:

• 9 -13 yrs of relevant experience, Knowledge of various test activities across release pipelines to promote artefacts from dev to prod, including unit testing, regression testing, cert testing, client testing, etc.

• Demonstrated technical leadership by providing guidance to engineers and driving project solutions as the lead.

• Experience driving test design and implementation

• Strong knowledge of automation processes

• Good experience of testing across different device types and operating systems such as Windows, OSX, iOS, tvOS, Android, Roku, FireTV, Xbox, Playstation, Tizen, and WebOS. 

• Good experience in working on streaming platform like OTT/Player/Video streaming.

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

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

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

• Ability to collaborate with technology resources on projects given solid understanding of current technologies and trends.

• 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

Must Have Experience in Tools/Frameworks/Language/Processes:

• Framework Design and Development - BDD

• Coding language - Java/JavaScript

• UI Automation - Selenium/UFT/Tosca

• Mobile Automation - Appium or any other tool for Android/iOS

• CI/CD - Jenkins/Teamcity

• Source Code Management - GitHub/SVN

• Test case management - Jira/TestRail

• InSprint automation

Nice to Have:

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

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

• API Automation - RestAssured/SoapUI

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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