Job Title: Senior QA Engineer (Set-top Box / Web Services Testing)
Location: North America - Foster City, CA
Department: Engineering Group
Reports To: Director of QA
Sling Media, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), is a leading digital lifestyle company offering consumer services and products that are a natural extension of today's digital way-of-life. Sling Media's product family includes the internationally acclaimed, Emmy award-winning Slingbox that allows consumers to watch and control their living room television shows at any time, from any location, using PCs, Macs, PDAs and smartphones and the revolutionary new SlingCatcher, a universal media player that seamlessly delivers broadcast TV, Internet video and personal content to the TV. Sling Media is also the company behind the video entertainment web site, Sling.com, offering consumers a wide variety of popular TV shows, movies and other entertainment free for viewing online or on the TV using SlingCatcher.
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 and analyzing defect reports.
Essential Responsibilities
- Testing of Sling Media functionality imbedded within different Set-Top Boxes, and other devices.
- Testing of Sling Media functionality developed for Cloud, interacting with Web-Based and Set-Top Box Functional applications.
- Creation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Reports utilized by both local, remote and external testing teams.
- Assist with coordination of testing efforts between multiple, remote and external testing teams.
- Testing Sling Media software and hardware with a large number of Home Network routers, devices and products.
- 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.
- Interact with external and internal Partners for testing cross-branded products.
- Work with other Sling Media team members, both within QA and other 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
- 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.
- Proven experience with testing different Set-Top Boxes (STB - cable, satellite, IPTV).
- Testing software products on multiple platforms (Windows OS, Macintosh OS, UNIX/LINUX and SQL-based databases).
- Experience gathering and analyzing software quality metrics throughout the software development life cycle.
- Experienced working as a member of an Agile/XP team.
- Successfully worked as a member of teams with both local and off-shore members.
- Familiarity with audio / video streaming, including HDTV fundamentals.
- Familiarity with home video/audio products.
- Interact with external and internal Partners for testing cross-branded products.
- Basic understanding of Networking Protocols and Products (Home routers / port forwarding / UPnP).
- Ability to work on multiple projects under tight deadlines and changing priorities.
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
Contact: jobs@slingmedia.com (please reference requisition #302) |
