Mobile SDET
Englewood, Colorado; Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Overview
Make your mark at Comcast -- a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. Become part of our award-winning, international engineering 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. You’ll do the best work of your career right here.
Success Profile
What makes a successful Mobile SDET at Comcast? Review the top traits we're looking for and see if you're the right fit.
- Results-driven
- Adaptable
- Inventive
- Entrepreneurial
- Team Player
- Problem-Solver
Responsibilities
Mobile SDET
Job Summary
As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) on the Player Platform QA team, you will take part equally in software development and testing processes, focusing on the testability, robustness and performance of IP video playback experience. Job Description Player Platform is an SDK written in various programming languages like Kotlin, Swift, Typescript, Bright script etc., that powers IP video playback experience on X1 platform set-top boxes and Xfinity Stream applications on Android, iOS, Web browsers and Roku platforms. Player platform provides a video player that integrates with our video streaming, content protection (DRM), advertisement, emergency alerts and real-time analytics services. As an SDET, you will be building automation testing tools and frameworks to assist the manual testing process. Who will you work with? Player platform SDET’s collaborate with software engineers, software architects and other video streaming technologists. Daily, you will be working on a small scrum team that consists of product owners, software engineers, SDET’s and quality assurance engineers. You will be closely working with other teams internal and external to Comcast VIPER. What are some exciting problems you’ll be working on? Player platform integrates into a high number of environments with a complex requirement surface area. Primary focus of the player platform team is to build flexible and reliable API’s that provide the best user experience for our customers and generate multi-billion-dollar revenue for our advertising business. As an SDET, you will be working on building flexible and robust automation framework that validates all the player Api’s being developed by the engineering team and to deliver a high-quality product to our customers that provide the best streaming experience. Where can you make an impact? You will be required to get acquainted with multiple platforms where Xfinity Stream applications is supported. You will need to be a subject matter expert for triaging issues that are reported by the customers and work with engineering teams to get a potential fix and certify the fix for deployment. You will need to build automation scripts that does regression on the player releases and quickly release the changes to our customers.Job Description
Core Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with development team and automation testers to ensure deliverables meet quality.
- Work with development teams to plan, implement, and track component testing activities.
- Effective failure analysis and consistent testing status reporting to the team and leadership.
- Function as a member of our agile team and help drive consistent testing practices.
- Ensure engineering team delivers a quality product that meets the defined acceptance criteria.
- Support test planning, manual and automated test cases/scripts, and test execution.
- Analyze manual and automated test scenario results.
Employees at all levels are expected to:
- 3+ years of experience in testing enterprise mobile applications
- Experience in manual testing and test automation on Android/iOS devices
- Experience with Smoke, Functional, Regression, Integration and Component testing techniques
- Ability to recognize risks and errors in the application
- Working experience and understanding of Agile software development
- Experience with Jira/Jenkins/Git integration
- Concourse, Jenkins, Bamboo or other continuous integration tool experience
- Able to independently execute automation.
- Experience in writing automation code in at least one programming language
- Experience with network traffic capture tools such as Charles, Postman and Wireshark
- A passion for testing, development, and design
What technologies you will work on?
- Video streaming over IP
- HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) technology
- DASH Live Streaming technology
- Video streaming on Mobile and COAM devices
Nice to Haves
- Prior experience testing on Roku platform
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 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.
Salary:
Primary Location Pay Range: $92,241.02 - $138,361.53
Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.
Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
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.
Relevant Work Experience
2-5 Years
Hear from our people
Culture
At Comcast you can have work/life balance in an inclusive environment where you can be your authentic self.
Comcast provides many opportunities to build skills and grow in your career and a top-notch benefits, time off and perks package.
We are committed to delivering reliable, effortless experiences to our customers no matter how they choose to interact with us.
You will build personal relationships on a growing team that while making Xfinity a best-in-class, most-loved brand.
More About Comcast
-
Comcast Business Boosts Internet Speeds for Customers Nationwide
Comcast Business announced the introduction of its fastest Internet plans yet – Ultimate Speed for Business – with up to triple the speeds. Additionally, Comcast Business announced the roll-out of next-generation multi-gigabit symmetrical business Internet speeds, powered by Full Duplex technology, in select markets.
-
Edge of Innovation: Network Edge Compute in Action
We are here to change people’s lives, so whenever we talk about what we’re building, whether our products or network, we start with the customer. What do customers want? What do they need? What will they want in the future and can’t yet anticipate?
-
New Data Reveals Public Perceptions on Digital Skills
Technological innovation and the digital revolution drive our economy. Keeping up with this change requires digital skills and proficiency in virtually every industry – from manufacturing to home healthcare to retail.
Tech Engineering in Action
Jobs For You
-
Engineer 3, Software Development & Engineering – SDET - 3222
Englewood, Colorado Computer Engineering 09/05/2024
-
Xfinity Retail Sales Consultant Evergreen
East Naples, Florida Retail 08/22/2024
-
Xfinity Retail Sales Consultant
Danvers, Massachusetts Retail 07/09/2024
No Recently Viewed Jobs
View All JobsNo Saved Jobs
View All JobsTalent Community
Join our talent community so we can get to know you better, learn more about your skills and experience, and how they could align with future open positions at Comcast.
Job Alerts
Sign up for Job Alerts to be the first to know about new opportunities. After signing up or logging in to Workday, select Job Alerts in the top right corner to create a new alert or edit an existing one.