Senior Software Engineer in Test, Roku
Python
4 days a week in office
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
Be an early applicant
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
4 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide its users with a more convenient and cost effective way of watching the programs they love.
Role
Who you are
- You should be able to represent automation and QA concerns in meetings with cross-functional, project team members and provide valuable end-user feedback to improve the customer experience
- This position requires a solid understanding of software development life-cycle experience with a variety of testing techniques, strong debugging, written and organizational skills, and automation experience
- 5+ years of Software Engineering
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with automation systems and unit testing (Python)
- Strong problem-solving, analytical and technical troubleshooting skills
- Solid knowledge and experience developing test plans and test cases
- Strong debugging skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Research and documentation skills
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly
- Ability to work independently and be self-directed
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related
- Experience with big data analytics: Splunk, ELK, Hive, Redshift, etc. (nice to have)
- In-depth knowledge of streaming back-ends and formats (nice to have)
- Experience working with Smart/Digital TV (HDMI), Setup Boxes, Wi-Fi
- (2.4Ghz & 5GHz), TV remote controllers (nice to have)
- International product experience (nice to have)
What the job involves
- We are committed to making sure our products aren’t just intuitive, they’re obvious
- To support that commitment, the Roku Ads Test Automation Team focuses on testing Ad products and features for the industry’s most reliable streaming media platform
- Our goal is to help people find what they want and make it easier for people to stream
- We accomplish this using state-of-the-art technology and engineering to make it happen, with consideration for the customer as the centre of all that we do
- We are seeking an experienced and versatile Software Development Engineer in Test to own quality of ad features on Roku Platform
- You will be responsible for end-to-end execution of ad product which includes cross-team collaboration for feature testing, developing test plans, coordinate testing with manual QA, create an automation strategy, deployment of library/feature and more
- Our team works on qualifying all Ads products and features on Roku Platform
- You will be joining a talented, high-performance team of SDETs with a history of delivery
- We are looking for someone who can help us keep up this pace and continue delivering high quality as we grow
- Own and execute the feature testing, create test plan documentation, collaborate with developers, product lead and other manual QA
- Develop Automated tests that run on Roku players and TVs
- Convert manual test cases into reliable, repeatable automated tests
- Contribute to the Continuous Integration pipeline by running component builds, creating and running Deployment jobs on individual stages on Jenkins, and running automated functional tests
- Debug failing tests to improve product and automated test quality
- Promote coding conventions and standards for code re-usability and cleanliness
- Conduct code reviews for improved code quality and optimization
Our take
According to Nielsen data, the average streamer spends over seven minutes searching for something to watch. Streaming services use customers' viewing history to make suggestions, but these are limited to programs licensed for that particular service.
Roku provides an integrated streaming service that offers TV channels, movies and third-party streaming services, resulting in an all-in-one streaming platform. The service can be accessed through a variety of customized subscription packages and fees.
Roku stands out in the streaming industry by bringing many competitors together in one package. The startup provides further innovative services such as a weekly TV series named 'Roku Recommends' which uses first-party data to recommend essential viewing to users. Alongside funding filmmakers through its "Change Makers Program", Roku also acquired its own original library of shows through its acquisition of now-defunct Quibi's library in 2021. After successful collaborations with TCL and Hisense, the first in-house "Roku Television" was released in 2023, further exemplifying the streaming company's wider ambitions in the media sector.
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Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2016
$45.5m
LATE VC
Nov 2015
$45.5m
SERIES H
Total funding: $247.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, wellness and financial benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Newhall, San Jose, CA
Leadership
Anthony Wood
(Founder & CEO)Studied Engineering at Texas A&M before founding their first company in 1986. They held VP roles at both Adobe and Netflix.
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