Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Make your mark at Comcast -- a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. From the connectivity and platforms we provide, to the content and experiences we create, we reach hundreds of millions of customers, viewers, and guests worldwide. Become part of our award-winning technology team that turns big ideas into cutting-edge products, platforms, and solutions that our customers love. We create space to innovate, and we recognize, reward, and invest in your ideas, while ensuring you can proudly bring your authentic self to the workplace. Join us. You'll do the best work of your career right here at Comcast. (In most cases, Comcast prefers to have employees on-site collaborating unless the team has been designated as virtual due to the nature of their work. If a position is listed with both office locations and virtual offerings, Comcast may be willing to consider candidates who live greater than 100 miles from the office for the remote option.)

Job Summary

Comcast's Technology, Product & Experience organization works at the intersection of media and technology. Our innovative teams are continually developing and delivering products that transform the customer experience. From crafting apps like TVGo to new features such as the Talking Guide on the X1 platform, we work every day to make a positive impact through innovation in the pursuit of building amazing products that are enjoyable, easy to use and accessible across all platforms. The team also develops and supports our evolving network architecture, including next-generation consumer systems and technologies, infrastructure and engineering, network integration and management tools, and technical standards. We offer a flexible working environment to balance the need to work independently wherever you choose, with days that require collaboration at one of our offices. Our roles primarily reside inside or around one of our Tech Hubs (Philadelphia and surrounding suburbs, Denver, Austin, Silicon Valley, Washington DC/N. Virginia). Some roles can work virtual full-time if they are not near a Tech Hub, but that is dependent upon the needs of the position and amount of collaboration required.

Billions of requests. Millions of Users. Come be part of Comcast's Multi Product Platform team! Our team crafts, builds, and operates the APIs that power the Xfinity and Sky product experiences. Reliability and performance at this scale require sophisticated information systems to be made simple.

Job Description

The Senior Software Development Engineer in Test will be responsible for designing, developing, implementing and performing test automation solutions for Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) Broadband products. Develop test automation solutions, using several modern frameworks and environments and using modern broadband product test approaches, deliver high-reliability, cost-effective solutions to be used by QA test, development and operations partners; all to ensure that test programs are delivered at high quality, on-schedule, on-budget and successfully deployed to the field. Assists in managing project teams, developing test strategies, and designing quality assurance practices. Able to adapt automation solutions to the fast-paced DevOps paradigm, quickly tailoring solutions to help identify, reproduce, and triage lab/field defects. Able to establish and maintain automation test environments. Able to establish and maintain automation development standards, procedures and methods to enable seamless and efficient deployment of automated test cases into the Dev/QA test environment. Integrates knowledge of business and functional priorities. Acts as a key contributor in a complex and crucial environment. May lead teams or projects and shares expertise.

Core Responsibilities

• Write and edit complex, automated test code, using the same standards as a Software Engineer, that allows for repeatable, reliable testing solutions to test the wide functionality of products and software in accordance with specifications and technical requirements, maintaining automation codebase in a version control system (GIT, SVN). This may include creating complex SQL queries for validation of databases and writing SOAP and RESTful API automated scripts.
• Build new tools to assist in faster test automation and functional testing efforts and innovate on existing automation processes.
• Serve as a guide and mentor for junior-level engineers. Provides technical leadership and consultation with regards to practices, procedures and techniques.
• Review project progress, evaluates results and recommends corrections in technical applications and analysis to executive teams.
• Perform code reviews of automation scripts and front-end codebases.
• Work closely with Test Engineers and Development teams to build test script hooks that help in earlier and easier testing.
• Analyze broken test cases and diagnose and repair to working order.
• Diagnose and repair complex bugs within production code.
• Drive scrum meetings as Scrum Master, perform backlog grooming and sprint planning.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary.
• Develop, test and deploy reliable, efficient and cost-effective test automation solutions and provide support to QA/Dev/Ops uses of automation solutions
• Create test plans and conduct test plan reviews
• Create automated test scripts from business functional requirements and manual test cases.
• Work with Product and Development owners in defining the feature user story requirements and provide direction on automation feasibility and support related prototyping and scripting during feature development phase
• Produces specifications for validity in overall automation design, operation and test coverage
• Lead in the identification and resolution of problems and defects; able to initiate investigation processes, identifies and reproduces bugs or defects and drives issues and improvements to resolution.
• Reviews project progress, evaluates results and recommends corrections in technical applications and analysis.
• Serves as a guide and mentor for junior-level QA and automation development engineers; provides technical leadership and consultation with regards to practices, procedures and techniques
• Works with technology partner/vendor teams to solve problems
• Able to assist with project budget, scheduling and estimating
• Lead in defining and implementing continuous improvement process initiatives
• Drive organization wide Quality Process improvements in coordination with other Quality Leads
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Technology Snapshot:

• Dashboard and Reporting using tools like ELK, Grafana and Tableau.
• Tools and technologies for DevOps such as Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible.
• Experience with technologies used to develop and support automated testing including JAVA, Spring Framework, Tomcat, Python, Jenkins, Concourse, GIT.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff - be hard-working learners, users and advocates of our groundbreaking technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Get results and growth.
• Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Disclaimer:

This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer.

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Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relative Work Experience

7-10 Years

Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.