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NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.
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Job Description
Welcome to Peacock, the dynamic new streaming service from NBCUniversal. Here you'll find more than a job. You'll find a fast-paced, high-performance team of incredible colleagues that want to be at the epicenter of technology, sports, news, tv, movies and more. We work hard to connect people to what they love, each other and the world around them by creating shared experiences through culture-defining entertainment.
As a company, we embrace the power of difference. Our team is committed to creating an organization that champions diversity and inclusivity for all by curating content and a workforce that represents the world around us. We continue to challenge ourselves and the industry by being customer-centric, data-driven creatures of innovation. At Peacock, we are determined to forge the next frontier of streaming through creativity, teamwork, and talent.
The Core Video Team is responsible for building all playback-related functionality in Sky's OTT products. We work closely with the application teams in Sky Go, NOW TV, Sky Sports and others to ensure that common functionality is built in a reliable, scalable and efficient way.
We build a video SDK which our colleagues across Sky use to achieve effortless video playback on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Samsung TV, LG TV, PlayStation, Xbox, Roku, Chromecast and other devices.
We are now looking for talented engineers to join us in finding new innovative ways to build features and improve upon our video players.
Responsibilities:

• Be an active player in all agile ceremonies
• Create and maintain test documentations
• Own defect management and perform knowledgeable analysis of testing results
• Effectively utilize applicable testing tools and be proactive in improving QA tech stack
• Be a liaison between product owners, engineering, and quality assurance teams
• Be a subject matter expert and contribute to knowledge sharing throughout the team
• Drive Improvements
• Represent QA team in project/progress/status meetings

Qualifications

• Industry experience and a successful track record in video players testing of web, mobile and Cross TV applications
• Awareness of streaming technology, AV codecs, DRM, video ads insertion
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies, test practice and terminology at all SDLC and STLC phases
• Ability to demonstrate strong communication skills and a focused, determined,
  pro-active attitude
• Experience using Test management tools such as Zephyr or TestRail and project management and defect logging tools such as JIRA or GitHub
• Strong knowledge of proxy and debugging tools such as Charles, Fiddler or similar
• Excellent trouble-shooting skills with the ability to analyze logs and detect root cause of the issue

Desired Characteristics

• Basic understanding of video streaming technologies
• Knowledge of major video protocols
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Advanced debugging and logs capturing on all major platforms and devices
• Knowledge of JSON, XML, VAST
• Experience with automation testing tools
• CI/CD awareness and tools such as Jenkins, Concourse
• Understanding of version control system, Git commands usage
• Basic experience with common IDEs and scripting/programming languages

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $90,000 - $125,000
Additional Information
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