QA Manager
Discovery Communications
Bellevue, WAThis was removed by the employer on 9/6/2019 8:31:00 AM PST
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The Direct2Consumer – QA Manager, has responsibility for leading the quality assurance, for our new in-house OTT digital video platform being developed, especially the technical backend system delivering video to user devices.
Working with application owners, key stakeholders, technology teams and peers across Discovery, they will work together to provide stable application environments for the user community, supporting QA testing for all infrastructure changes, application updates and system configuration in support of continual business change.
Responsibilities
1. Liaise with internal/external teams to identify requirements and determine test strategy
2. Generate testing scripts for both SIT and E2E testing using development documentation and product owner requirements
3. Conduct manual testing, hands-on and lead by example a team of QA testers
4. Estimate, prioritise, plan and coordinate testing activities
5. Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
6. Review functional and design specifications and mapping them to test cases
7. Deliverables including daily/weekly test progress reports, test cases, tests plans, bug tracking, UAT reports, gathering test evidences, post deployment validation reports etc. to Management
8. Assess the impact and risks of new functionalities introduced
9. Conduct defect management, attending defect triage meetings
Requirements
* Proven experience as a QA Manager in software development teams, with at least 5 years’ experience in a software QA role
* Able to build a testing strategy and build processes and team to deliver strategy
* Experience in the digital broadcasting domain, digital video playback and CDN Paths.
* Experience of testing Cloud components (AWS Media Service) and API code
* Clear written and verbal communication skills
* Good experience with data migration testing, backend testing in SQL environment, including validating stored procedures, jobs and triggers.
* Strong understanding of SDLC/STLC, Agile/SCRUM, Waterfall methodologies, etc.
* Ability to translate technical requirements into Test Plans
* Must be analytical and methodical, have a keen eye for detail
* Experience in quality management software and processes
* Ability to supervise & provide guidance to a team of QA testers
* Ability to effectively coordinate multiple efforts simultaneously.
* Experience with GitHub, JIRA, Bugzilla, HP ALM, SOAP UI, RESTful APIs, etc.
* Advanced MS Excel skills for data analysis, pivot tables, reporting etc.
* Understanding of JSON and XML
* Excellent team player that gets along well with everyone
* Must have the legal right to work in the United States
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience and/or understanding of E2E digital broadcasting architecture
* ISTQB or similar certification in Testing
* Degree in Computer Science/ Engineering
* Non-functional/ performance testing experience
* Proposed and deployed automated testing workflows
* Basic exposure to Python/Selenium or other automation tools
Bellevue, Washington, Seattle, WA