Sr QA Analyst

Job details

Pay- $95,300 – $127,800 a year

Full job description

• Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

Media Engineering is an innovative organization that is passionate about providing the best possible video playback experience, art, and metadata to customers worldwide, powered by exceptional technology. This work requires streamlining and repurposing technology across different business and distribution channels – including streaming, linear, and theatrical – so that technology can ebb and flow across the needs of the business.

It is an incredibly complex ecosystem that requires us to manage an intricate integration platform for media asset ingestion, transformation, normalization, packaging, scheduling, and global distribution to downstream content providers in the exact format they expect for their play-out. That represents several hundred thousand hours and several million files processed every year.

This role will join the Broadcast & Content Services organization as the senior engineer of the team which develops, operates, and maintains media workflows supporting media supply chains for US domestic networks and studios owned by TWDC. We seek an individual who can develop and execute test plans, manage QA resources, and is comfortable in cross-functional interactions with teams in charge of the other parts of the media supply chain.

Responsibilities:

• Plan the QA teamwork and assignments.
• Test scripting and execution based on functional specifications.
• Coordination with engineering on testing requirements and issues solving.
• Working with the vendor development team to report and verify bugs.
• Define test scope for each testing cycle.
• Working with QA team members offshore.
• Using Jira for defect tracking and test execution.
• End to End testing for workflows that span across multiple applications.
• Working with Jira for defect tracking internally (with Operative development departments).
• Documenting test cases for new functionalities.
• Demo and train offshore QA members when new functionalities are implemented.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in a similar role
• Bachelor’s degree, and/or equivalent work experience
• Deep expertise of Media Workflows and Media Supply Chain, including broadcast/VOD playout systems.
• Highly proficient with Media Asset Management systems and workflow orchestrators such as Evertz Mediator and Signiant’s Reach Engine.
• Experience with 3rd party vendor solutions from Telestream, Imagine, SDVI, Evertz, Signiant, and Aspera.
• Deep knowledge of broadcast and VOD standards.
• Excellent verbal and written communicator, able to interact with leadership and business partners daily.

The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, depending on the level and position offered.