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Job Title: Lead Software Engineer in Test
Team: Global Quality Engineering
Location: New York City Los Angeles San Francisco
Paramount Skydance Corp. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Test to design architect and deliver high-quality scalable and reliable automated testing solutions across our enterprise platforms. This senior technical role combines deep Java engineering expertise advanced test automation media/streaming domain knowledge and modern CI/CD practices to accelerate quality reduce risk and ensure world-class customer experiences across CTV SmartTV mobile and web.
You will be a senior technical leader within the Global Quality Engineering (GQE) organization. You will use and enhance our existing departmental automation framework define quality strategies and mentor engineers across GQE to elevate testing maturity and engineering excellence. You will also drive AI-augmented development and testing practices using GitHub Copilot (in-IDE) Cursor and similar tools.
Automation Framework Architecture
Enhance and extend our existing Java-based departmental test automation framework supporting API UI Mobile CTV/SmartTV and integration testing; introduce reusable libraries utilities and patterns to improve stability and scale.
Establish scalable patterns for reusable test components data management assertions parallelization and distributed execution.
Integrate the framework deeply into CI/CD pipelines to support shift-left testing and continuous quality.
AI-Augmented Quality Engineering
Champion AI-assisted development and testing using tools such as GitHub Copilot (IDE) Cursor and LLM-based assistants to improve developer productivity test authoring velocity code reviews and defect triage.
Apply prompt engineering and retrieval techniques to accelerate test case generation log/telemetry summarization video-quality anomaly detection and root-cause analysis.
Evaluate and integrate functional AI capabilities that measurably reduce flakiness false positives and triage time within the existing framework.
Media & Multi-Platform Quality
Expand automation coverage for video playback streaming resiliency DRM flows SSAI/CSAI ad insertion captions/subtitles and content protection.
Validate QoE metrics (startup time rebuffering ratio frame drops video/audio sync error recovery) across Roku Fire TV Android TV/Google TV Samsung Tizen LG webOS Apple TV iOS/Android mobile apps and modern web players.
Leverage media tooling such as ffmpeg/ffprobe Charles/Fiddler and player inspection APIs for diagnostics and validation.
Quality Engineering Technical Leadership
Define technical strategy for automated testing across services microservices UIs mobile apps and OTT/CTV applications leveraging the departmental framework.
Ensure consistent adoption of engineering best practices coding standards and high-quality test development patterns.
Lead the evaluation and adoption of modern automation technologies and quality platforms.
Cross Functional Collaboration
Partner with Video Engineering Playback/Player Ads/Monetization CDN/Streaming Operations and Platform teams to ensure robust validation of streaming experiences and ad workflows.
Collaborate with Product to ensure test coverage aligns to business priorities and quality goals.
Work closely with Platform and Data Engineering to support scalable test environments quality data and telemetry.
Design and implement complex automated test suites using Java Selenium Appium JMeter Locust REST-Assured TestNG/JUnit and related tooling within the existing framework.
Build and optimize testing strategies including API/contract integration performance/reliability and device-level testing for CTV/SmartTV mobile and web.
Diagnose and tackle issues related to automation reliability environment instability device fragmentation and system integration.
7 years of experience in software engineering or quality engineering with robust Java development expertise.
Demonstrated experience using and enhancing an existing enterprise/departmental automation framework.
Deep expertise in common test automation tools (Selenium Appium Playwright REST-Assured TestNG JUnit Maven/Gradle).
AI experience (must-have): hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools. This includes tools like Claude Code GitHub Copilot (IDE) Cursor or similar. Candidates should also have useful prompt engineering skills for code and tests. LLMs are leveraged for tasks such as generating tests suggesting code reviews summarizing logs and speeding up triage.
Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI Argo Spinnaker) and quality gates.
Proven experience testing media/streaming applications across CTV (Roku Fire TV Android TV/Google TV) SmartTV (Tizen/webOS) iOS/Android mobile and web.
Hands-on validation of HLS/DASH ABR DRM captions/subtitles and QoE metrics.
Cloud experience (GCP AWS or Azure) and containerization (Docker Kubernetes).
Solid knowledge of software design patterns data structures and core engineering principles.
Experience mentoring engineers or leading cross-functional automation initiatives.
Familiarity with observability and APM tools (Grafana Prometheus NewRelic DataDog) and media telemetry(Conviva MUX NPAW etc).
Experience with contract testing (PACT) service virtualization or synthetic media test data.
Exposure to CTV/SmartTV automation stacks and remote device labs.
Technical leadership ability to guide teams and evolve automation coverage.
Quality mindset commitment to reliability maintainability and continuous improvement.
AI fluency judgment on where AI adds measurable value in testing.
Systems thinking knowledge of distributed systems and complex media pipelines.
Ownership ability to drive initiatives end-to-end with autonomy.
Increased automation coverage across CTV/SmartTV mobile and web; reduced manual regression. Measurable reduction in escaped defects and media playback incidents. Improved stability and reliability of automated pipelines and device runs.
Faster release cycles through scalable AI-augmented automation.
Broad adoption and consistent usage of the GQE test framework across teams
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Hiring Salary Range: $124000.00 - 186000.00.
The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York California Colorado Washington state and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors including but not limited to geographic location market demands experience training and education. The benefits available for this position include medical dental vision 401(k) plan life insurance coverage disability benefits tuition assistance program and PTO or if applicable as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining position is bonus eligible.
What We Offer:
- Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages. Check out our full list of benefits here: paid time off.
- An exciting and fulfilling opportunity to be part of one of Paramounts most dynamic teams.
- Opportunities for both on-site and virtual engagement events.
- Unique opportunities to make meaningful connections and build a vibrant community both inside and outside the workplace.
- Explore life at Paramount: is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.
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