Job Description
At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it’s consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution. When you join Nielsen, you will join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future.At Nielsen, we bring together big data and technology to provide our media clients with insights into consumers’ viewing behavior. As a software engineer, you will play a critical role in building and standardizing Nielsen technology Software test automation applications for the Watermarking Software Development Kit for the broadcast industry, Television, Radio, streaming and live.You want to learn about the technology behind the media industry, and you’re passionate about building test automation systems .This is an exciting opportunity to join a team where your talent, ideas, and creativity will be rewarded.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent degree
- 4+ years of Full Software Test Life Cycle experience, including Planning, Analyzing, Test and Production Support of new and existing modules
- Self-motivated to understand the problems required to solve and decision-making skills
- Good communication and collaborative skills
- Software development lifecycle experience
- Deep understanding of product test concepts: Test plan generation, baseline and test data generation, test data comparison, test data reporting.
- Strong knowledge on python, Unix/Linux OS, commands, shell scripting
- Deep understanding of the watermarking and broadcast technologies
- Good knowledge of debugging skills
- Experience with test automation systems.
- Experience with Git, GitHub and Jira and Continuous Integration (Jenkins or GitLab)Strong testing and debugging abilities, functional, analytical and technical abilities, ability to find bugs, attention to detail, troubleshooting
- The ability to work with remote systems and generate test data
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work closely with other engineers to test the watermarking products using test automation software for Software packages and Hardware Encoding products
- Understand the requirements, design and build manual and automated test scenarios to thoroughly test Nielsen’s encoding products
- Adopt various testing methodologies like exploratory, regression, acceptance, validation, boundary and sanity testing to ensure features are usable, reliable and work as designed and specified
- Be actively involved in all phases of testing life cycles such as Functional, Regression, End2End, Alpha & Post-Release Testing, write and execute test plans and test cases
- Be actively involved in Agile development model, working with developers in sprints, in-sprint testing and defect reporting, participate in Agile ceremonies
- Follow and implement QA processes, directions and best practices, as instructed, as part of providing quality products for the Business, with no quality escapes
- Coordination with other developers and testers for cross-functional requirements tests
