Quality Assurance Manager

About the role

The QA Manager will lead quality assurance for the Local Now streaming platform across various devices including iOS, Android, smart TVs, streaming devices, and web. This role involves overseeing test planning, automation roadmap development, release gating, ad-quality testing, and privacy regression testing.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the QA strategy for the Local Now platform across multiple platforms with a lean team.
• Build out a test automation roadmap that scales across many platforms, including device-lab strategy, CI integration, and tooling decisions.
• Establish release gating, regression coverage, and acceptance criteria in partnership with engineering and product teams.
• Lead QA for video playback (both live and VOD), client-side and server-side ad insertion, ad pod logic, and quality-of-experience metrics.
• Drive privacy and consent regression testing as a recurring discipline, not a one-time launch task.
• Manage, mentor, and grow the QA team; recruit and onboard additional QA engineers as the organization scales.
• Partner with DevOps and observability functions to ensure that issues found in production feed back into test coverage.
• Report on quality KPIs, escape rates, and release health to executive leadership.

Requirements

• 5+ years of QA experience, including 2+ years managing or leading QA engineers.
• Demonstrated experience owning QA for a multi-platform consumer product, preferably in the streaming, media, or ad-supported streaming space.
• Hands-on background with test automation frameworks such as Appium, XCUITest, Espresso, Playwright/WebDriver, and CI-integrated test pipelines.
• A strong understanding of streaming video QA, including playback behavior, ad insertion, DRM, and quality-of-experience signals.
• Experience establishing release processes, quality gates, and bug-triage practices in a fast-moving engineering organization.
• Ability to balance manual and automated testing pragmatically, especially across device platforms where automation is uneven.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable presenting quality posture to executive stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience with FAST, AVOD, or other ad-supported streaming services is a plus.
• Familiarity with consent management, DSAR workflows, or privacy regulation testing (CCPA, GDPR) is a plus.
• Experience with QA tooling for connected TV platforms specifically (Roku, Fire TV, Tizen, Vizio, X1) is a plus.
• Experience with QA tooling for AI-assisted testing or developer-productivity tooling is a plus.

Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with agile methodologies and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).

Benefits

Allen Media Group offers a competitive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and more. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Pay

Competitive salary based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

Full-time position with flexible working hours.