Senior Software Development Engineer in Test - Cloud TV

About the role

Roku pioneered TV streaming and continues to innovate and lead the industry. The Roku Channel has us well-positioned to help shape the future of streaming. Continued success relies on investing in the Roku Cloud TV Platform so we deliver high quality streaming TV experience at a global scale.

You will be part of the Roku Video Services team and responsible for building the next generation video services for the Roku Cloud TV Platform. In this role you will work on key video services projects around video ingestion, encoding, VoD/live-linear, DRM and Video QoS, with the goal of delivering best-in-class streaming TV experience across all of Roku devices. The projects that you will work on will impact millions of Roku users around the world. All along, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with key product engineering stakeholders across Roku engineering teams and lead the design of our video services platform.

The ideal candidate will have endless curiosity and can pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution. You should be a gritty problem solver and self-starter who can drive programs with the product and commercial teams within Roku and across external strategic partner organisations. The successful candidate will display a balance of hard and soft skills, including the ability to respond quickly to changing business needs.

What you’ll be doing

You will be responsible for driving key software quality engineering initiatives for the Roku Cloud TV Platform, making development teams productive by relentlessly pursuing automation, injecting quality throughout the software development lifecycle, and seeking to drive efficiencies across our engineering teams. This includes:

• Build product test strategies, design, create, and execute comprehensive suite of test cases against our cloud based video services platform

• Emphasize performance, stress, and scalability testing

• Collaborate with media player development teams to deliver high quality, delightful streaming experiences, fine tune quality of experience, investigate and remediate potential streaming quality of service problems

• Reproduce customer issues, write regression tests, track defects and verify fixes

• Enhance and extend the test automation framework, systems, and libraries, and improve developer productivity through better tools, processes and frameworks

• Analyze and troubleshoot test failures, drive resolution, and communicate test results across stakeholders

• Collaborate with stakeholder groups across Product and Engineering to identify common pain points, develop solutions, evangelize best practices, and align with them on product quality goals and measurements

We’re excited if you have

• Strong problem solving and analytical abilities

• 5+ Years in a Software Engineering or Test Automation role working on large scale web applications

• Good understanding of microservices architecture, and proven track record in testing and automating testing of web scale, cloud service platforms using REST APIs with Java as the development language

• Cross-feature problem solving skills, ability to troubleshoot, identify and resolve defects

• Passionate about leveraging test automation to dramatically increase speed and quality of software delivery processes

• Experience with automation and load frameworks such as Spock, JUnit, Selenium, JMeter, AWS Distributed Load Testing, Artillery, etc

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as Gitlab Pipelines and/or Jenkins and Test management tools such as TestRail

• Strong programming expertise, and a robust grasp of operating systems concepts, algorithms and data structures, and database fundamentals

• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills, and ability to collaborate effectively with inter-disciplinary teams and management

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent; Master's degree preferred

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