Lead Software Engineer (Java) in Test
Paramount+ · New York, NY · 1 wk ago
On-siteEngineering$124k–$186k/yrFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
Required Qualifications
- 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.
- Candidates should also have useful prompt engineering skills for code and tests.
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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.