Job Title: Senior QA Engineer (Network Testing / Lab Maintenance)
Location: North America - Foster City, CA
Department: Engineering Group
Reports To: Director of QA
General Summary
Are you a videophile? Do you live for the latest posted clip? Can’t wait for your clip’s rating and viewing numbers to go up? If you love working with the latest technologies, are a quick learner, a great team player, and a hands-on person, this is your chance to join Sling Media in our continued quest to provide excellence.
Working as part of our testing team, you will search for, investigate, report, and track issues. Your duties will include leading a team in insuring the scalability, availability, fault-tolerance of the next generation in video social networking products. Both black and white box testing following both existing test plans and test plans that you write, designing new test cases, operating and creating automated test suites, and analyzing defect reports.
Essential Responsibilities
- Testing Sling Media software and hardware with a large number of Home Network routers, devices and products.
- Manage and maintain a testing lab and equipment inventory with multiple third-party routers, video and audio devices (HDTV, DirecTV, TiVo, Media Center, Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, etc.).
- Work closely with Customer Service by assisting them with customer escalations and the reproduction of issues in the lab.
- Track & analyze test results and work closely with the developers to isolate and reproduce defects.
- Interact closely with members of the cross-functional team for project success.
- Work with other Sling Media QA team members to source domain expertise and apply to architecture testing.
- Communicate status & issues in a timely fashion and manage escalations appropriately.
Job Specifications/Requirements
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- 8+ years QA experience testing various products.
- Background in testing both software and hardware (home networking and audio/visual devices).
- Developing test plan / test cases, generating test reports and bug tracking management.
- Testing software products on multiple platforms (Windows OS, Macintosh OS and SQL-based databases).
- Experience with automated testing tools at both the API and UI level.
- Experience in the shrink-wrap software industry is highly desirable.
- Experience gathering and analyzing software quality metrics throughout the software development life cycle.
- Experience with researching third-party products (for reselling/bundling/compatibility) and experience with generating both detailed and executive summary reports.
- Familiarity with audio / video streaming, including HDTV fundamentals.
- Familiarity with home video/audio products.
- Understanding of Networking Protocols (Home routers / port forwarding / UPnP).
- Ability to work on multiple projects under tight deadlines and changing priorities.
- Testing and managing Mobile devices lab (Windows Mobile, S60, Palm OS, JavaME (J2ME), RIM, BREW) is a plus.
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
Contact: jobs@slingmedia.com (please reference requisition #207) |
