QA Automation Engineer

at  Accedo

The multi-screen streaming video and the interactive TV space is growing rapidly. Accedo delivers rich media apps on multiple platforms ranging from Smart TVs, gaming consoles, Set Top Boxes, Roku, Apple TV, Android TV, Chromecast, Web, Smart phones, tablets and more. Accedo is a leading company in this sector and is hiring at multiple locations (Madrid, Stockholm, London, Guadalajara, Budapest).
At Accedo, you will be part of a diverse and multi-disciplined development team, gaining exposure to cutting-edge technologies. This means working with some of the largest global media brands in the industry, e.g. Netflix, Spotify, BBC, HBO and Deutsche Telekom, just to name a few. Working in a highly collaborative and international environment, you will help transform requirements and designs into high performing feature rich applications on a wide variety of web based platforms and devices.

• Design, develop, execute and maintain test scripts on Big Screen devices, STBs, mobile or web by leveraging coding skills and designated automation tools/frameworks
• Ensure test coverage meets overall system and software requirements
• Collaborate with internal and external teams, the team members will play a key role in software quality assurance of solutions that will be deployed in products worldwide.
• Testing and automation will range from validation of the user interface to sometimes low level validation of media streaming and broadcast technologies.
• Perform functional testing of new features and changes, and regression testing on releases, third party changes
• Addressing bugs & defects found during the development cycle.
• Deploy artefacts to different product environments (i.e. development, QA, UAT…), in apps.
• Interact with cross-functional scrum team, including product owners, designers, developers as well as other internal or external stakeholders, by example, joining sprint planning meetings, backlog refinements and sprint retrospectives to ensure the app quality meets specified functional, performance and business requirements
• Proactive communication with key stakeholders
• Provide task estimations
• Help to replicate hard to reproduce issues. Provide a clear and accurate description of each bug found. Track production issues and continuously identify high risk areas to improve test coverage.
• Write and maintain manual and automated test artefacts for the product.
• Collaborate with scrum teams to improve testing coverage, efficiency.
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