Middle Java Automation Engineer

Founded in 2013, our client is a hugely popular, cutting-edge online streaming television company from California. This free broadcasting service provides millions of viewers with more than 100 exclusive live and original channels that users won’t find on local TV. The content is full of TV shows of all kinds, premium news, on-demand movies, cartoons, viral videos, sports, lifestyle and trending digital series. In a nutshell, there is literally everything you’d like to see on your screen – hand-picked by people who know and love the entertainment industry.

More so, they offer a free app that runs seamlessly on multiple mobile, web and various connected TV streaming devices. Well-known online giants The Verge, Venture Beat, and Vibe declared our customer as ‘awesome’. So, we can say for sure that our client is redefining the future of television.

Our client 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.

#We are on a mission to unleash the power of content… you in?

We’ve got the brands, we’ve got the stars, we’ve got the power to achieve our mission to entertain the planet – now all we’re missing is… YOU! Joining a team of passionate people who not only recognize the power of content but also enjoy a touch of fun and uniqueness. Together, we co-create moments that matter – both for our audiences and our employees – and aim to leave a positive mark on culture.

• Interview process that respects people and their time
• Professional and open IT community
• Internal meet-ups and resources for knowledge sharing
• Time for recovery and relaxation
• Bright online and offline events
• Opportunity to become part of our internal volunteer community

Your Day-to-Day:

• Engaging with QA Engineer to prioritize and automate the testing for tracking libraries and SDKs for Mobile Apps and Connected TVs (CTV)
• Assist team in meeting established OKRs around data quality through the use of automation
• Convert test cases to test scripts and provide a self-serve ability for the rest of the team to execute automated testing
• Partner with QA Engineer to develop/support testing solutions which help them validate the streaming tracking analytics effeciently
• Collaborate with cross functional team members to troubleshoot issues/test failures related to analytics implementations
• Contribute to tracking specs; review, test, deploy/maintain test suites that will help support high quality analytics software
• Automate QA tests using real and simulated devices
• Analyze and document test results and create detailed Jira bug tickets

Key Responsibilities:

• Support automated testing efforts for analytics APIs that collect data across multiple platforms
• Participate in the continuous development and enhancement of test automation frameworks that support; data collection, and data validation capabilities
• Automate test cases & perform test script audits to identify tracking gaps/inconsistencies and solve technical implementation/tracking issues.
• Mentor QA engineers to utilize test automation as the primary source of testing and help them adapt to the automation framework
• Act as a point of contact for test automation throughout the SDLC and also peer review test scripts

Gen AI :

• Claude is mandatory – hands on to rewrite/refactor automation scripts, improve reliability, readability, and reduce duplication.
• Should have good knowledge on utilizing relevant AI for enriching autoamtion framework
• Apply GenAI to enrich automation at framework level: self healing support, maintenance optimization, and failure RCA assistance.
• Build/extend Agentic automation framework where agents assist in test generation, execution support, and maintenance workflows.
• Implement RAG based context grounding so script generation and recommendations use requirements/test assets/defect history.
• Hands on Docker for containerizing automation + AI utilities for consistent local/CI runs.
• CI/CD integration mindset: align automation execution with pipelines and test management systems.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of software development and a Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field
• Experience with programming language Java
• Experience with programming languages like JavaScript or Python preferred
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Strong communication, problem solving and creative-thinking skills
• Experience with test planning, test execution, test automation, and acceptance testing in an Agile environment
• Strong advocate for continuous improvement, best practices, for test automation and testing tools
• Experience using proxying tools (e.g. Charles, Wireshark, Chrome DevTools, BrowserMob)

You might also have 

• Experience working with tag management tools (e.g. Tealium, Adobe Launch)
• Expert in automation frameworks such as Selenium Webdriver, and Appium
• Agile experience and familiarity with JIRA and Confluence
• Experience working with analytics tools (e.g. Adobe Analytics)
• Testing experience with mobile applications and CTV platforms using ADB/Xcode
• Success in building a culture of good test engineering processes and practices