QA Engineer, Philo
Automation Specialist
$153-180k
+ Stock options
Live TV streaming service
Be an early applicant
Live TV streaming service
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$153-180k
+ Stock options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide affordable and accessible television streaming services to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of QA experience
- 2+ years of experience writing QA automation test code
- Familiarity with Typescript/JS for test writing
- Suite.st Testing Framework experience is a plus
- Experience writing QA automation tests against connected TV and mobile devices
- Experience testing video playback
- Experience or familiarity with at least two of: Android testing, Roku testing, Apple testing, Web testing
- Experience working closely with technical leads and engineering teams to drive project execution and maintain high code quality standards
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams and disciplines to achieve common goals
- Exceptional attention to detail and organization skills
What the job involves
- The frontend engineering teams at Philo ship applications to tens of millions of devices (e.g. Roku, iOS, Tizen, FireTV, Web, Chromecast, etc.) 10+ platforms. They are responsible for shipping high-quality apps, at a rapid pace and with an eye towards business value and user delight
- With so many devices, so many form factors, and so many features, things inevitably go wrong! We’re looking for a QA engineer to help us make sure that what we ship meets our high bar for quality
- We believe that QA should be involved in the software development lifecycle from the beginning (what we call the “product discovery phase”), so that they know what “correct looks like”. Our QA team takes a collaborative approach and teams up with developers to test iteratively as the feature takes shape
- Because we’re a small team, automation is a key part of our QA strategy; we have regression suites for all of our major platforms
- We expect our QA engineers to actively participate in the automation and add to the suite as we productionize new features. With that said, we still do manual QA on our features while they are still in the experimentation phase. In this role you will be expected to do both manual QA and automation testing
- Own the quality of 1-2 platforms. This includes manually testing new features, and improving the test suite for that platform
- Build upon automation suites across all of our major connected TV platforms including Web-TV (Samsung/Tizen, LG, Vizio), AndroidTV/FireTV, and Roku
- Work with product and engineering to prioritize test cases based on past bugs and risk tolerance within different parts of the app
- Collaborate closely with product and engineering to incorporate new features into the regression suite
- Help developers triage and understand bugs that are found
- Facilitate company-wide bug bashes
- Own and update release documentation to reflect current production deployments, feature availability, and version histories
- Partner with devs to create test requests in our ticketing system (JIRA), and ensure tickets are kept up-to-date during the development lifecycle
Our take
Streaming services offer cheaper options than cable TV packages, but prices are beginning to rise. This is partly due to packages beginning to bundle costly sports and other media packages that viewers do not necessarily want.
Philo offers a streaming service that aims to provide a streamlined selection of channels as an affordable, yet comprehensive, viewing option. The streamlined and high-quality channel offerings are available to viewers at $25 per month, a price significantly lower than standard cable subscriptions, with the base option including 60 live channels and over 75,000 on-demand offerings.
Whilst other streaming platforms offer affordable packages, Philo stands out with unique features such as a co-viewing service that allows up to three people to watch the same program together. The company has also proven its dedication to improved user experiences, as it expands its compatibility with devices such as smart TVs.
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Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2020
$50m
SERIES D
Jul 2018
$41.4m
SERIES C
Total funding: $155.7m
Company benefits
- Full health, dental and vision coverage for you and your family
- 401(k) plan with employer contributions (we match 100% of deferrals up to 3% of pay and 50% of the next 2% of pay)
- Flexible working hours
- Up to 20 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Unlimited paid time off for vacation and sick leave
- $2,000 annual vacation bonus (we pay you to take a two week vacation)
- $5,250 annually for professional development and educational assistance
- $1,250 annual home office + TV stipend during first year of employment ($250 annually thereafter)
- $500/month ($6,000/year) bonus for employees who commit to working at least 3 days per week in our offices, plus generous commuter benefits ($315/month towards transit, rideshare, bike rental, or parking at our HQ office in San Francisco)
- Free Gympass subscription — an all-in-one corporate benefit that gives employees the largest selection of gyms, studios, classes, training and wellness apps
- Dog-friendly office
- And much more!
Company HQ
Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Andrew McCollum
(CEO, not founder)Studied Computer Science at Harvard before co-founding Facebook. Joined Philo in 2014 and has acted as CEO since.
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