Staff Software Developer 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.

The Job

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.

The Daily

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). You understand the strengths and weaknesses of the test automation framework and how that translates into cost-efficiency and efficacy as you build out your tests. You assist in evaluating results of automated tests with the goal of identifying patterns, understanding root cause of failures, and other areas for analysis to further improve the stack. You help drive prioritization of work on the team.

QA Fundamentals: You understand a broad range of QA methodologies, test techniques, and tools to efficiently perform software testing, which includes but not limited to, system, integration, performance, security, API, usability, and analytics testing. You write high quality, maintainable, and robust automation code. Lastly, you understand a broad range of technical systems, frameworks, test automation concepts, and product platforms relevant to our industry.

Execution: You have built multiple stable, scalable feature changes that have been successfully shipped to customers in production. You develop, update, execute, and maintain manual and automated test systems while mentoring others to do the same. You hold a high bar on the test coverage as well as test stability.

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 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.

Mentorship: You are expected to provide mentoring to other engineers on your team. You coach and mentor up to Sr. Software Engineer in Test level and provides input to leadership on development needs and growth opportunities for team members.

The Essentials

• 9+ years 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.

• Experience in Automation framework development.

• 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, Android. 

• Experience with Connected devices such Roku, Apple TV, FireTV, Xbox, Playstation, Tizen, and WebOS would be a plus.

• 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.

• Collaboration 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.

• Ability to reviews automated test run results, triage failures and verify results.

• Framework Design and Development – Gherkin/ 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

The Nice to Haves

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

• API Automation - RestAssured/SoapUI

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   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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