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ABOUT THE CLIENT:Our Client is a free online television service broadcasting over 75 live channels full of TV shows, movies, and Internet videos, all on one dial. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, California. TechHive, a home technology review site, is referred to as the best cord-cutting application. The product runs as an app on AppleTV, Android TV, Amazon Fire Stick, Roku, and PlayStation. The company currently has around 75 content partners. The company also as of October 2016 has about 5 million monthly active users up from 500,000 in early 2015. We generate revenue from video advertisements between programming and have a goal to continue to stay as free television.
PROJECT DETAILS:Our product is led by a seasoned team of entrepreneurs, TV and technology executives, and top-of-class team members. $43M+ funding with investors like US Venture Partners, Sky, Chicago Ventures, Universal Music Group, United Talent Agency, and Pritzker Group. Top app with millions of users across platforms like web, iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Vizio, Samsung, and more.
One of the hottest startups in Los Angeles and one of the leading video platforms in the industry – often covered in NY Times, Forbes, Techcrunch, Variety, USA Today, CNN, Mashable, and more!
High energy culture. Passionate entrepreneurial team. Massive market. Employing the best of the best in the industry. We’re building the future of television.
YOUR TEAM:Our team is led by some of the best entrepreneurs and executives in media and technology. Our Executive Chairman was the Chief Content Officer of Spotify. Our co-founder and CEO was the CEO of Threadless and board member of Trunk Club and Smule. Our principal architect built the first Roku for Netflix. You’ll be joining a world-class startup team, with multiple exits under their belt, to build the future of television.
Our team solves business and technology problems. We run many experiments. We iterate on successful tests and turn them into products. We deploy those products across our apps to millions of users. We obsess over data. We run a lean, agile, vegan, non-gmo, all-organic development process. Our team is aligned with company goals and KPIs. We have autonomy on how to solve problems. We bring out the entrepreneur in every engineer. We work together to build the future of TV.
WHAT’S IN FOR YOU:Your primary focus, as a QA Automation Engineer, will be on testing and decision-making. You also will communicate with the rest of the team (US and Ukraine) working on establishing procedures, validating releases and enforcing quality standarts for the product. You will provide development and maintenance of test plans, test cases and test automation systems covering all aspects of software.
Detailed list of responsibilities:
- Create test plans for individual feature sets
- Design and develop functional tests plans and automated test cases
RESPONSIBILITIES:We’re looking for a world-class senior QA Automation engineer with strong computer science fundamentals, that can quickly pick up new technologies, that has a true passion for working on a fast-growing, consumer-facing product, that reaches millions of users.
Required:
- Java
- Experience with QA automation tools and platforms
- Automated testing development for web, mobile, video devices
- Experience with test automation including GUI testing
- Excellent experience with SQL
- Strong passion for learning and following industry best practices
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Good English communication skills and attitude to teamwork
Strong core QA skills:
- Strong QA methodology experience in an agile / scrum environment
- Strong experience organizing test approaches, test planning, and test documentation writing
- Exceptional User testing skills
Preferred:
- Knowledge of Node.js to implement own solutions including tests
- Video experience
- Device experience (Connected TVs, Phones, Tablets, etc.)
- Native applications / OTT Platforms functional testing experience
- Formal testing experience from planning to execution
- Automation experience using a Java framework
- 3+ years of experience in a functional testing role
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with developing automated functional tests
- Exposure to Agile Management tools such as Jira, is a plus
- Working experience with common automation frameworks (in Java), is a big plus
