Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.
Who We Are…
When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…
From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.
Staff Software Engineer - Java Full Stack (GQA Team), BangaloreAbout Warner Bros. Discovery:Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines WarnerMedia's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Warner Bros Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.For more information, please visit www.wbd.comMeet Our Team: The Global QA - Quality Engineering - Automation Framework and Tools team is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the Automation frameworks and tools that enables Test Engineering teams to develop and maintain test automation across multiple different client platforms. This team provides Framework as a Service model to the automation teams which includes critical capabilities from test injection to test reporting. We build tools and applications with an automate everything mindset, to bring efficiency across the organization. We are responsible for bringing innovative solutions and processes with a quality first mind set as we scale our global platform.
Roles & Responsibilities: We are hiring Staff Software engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for building automation framework and tools (Framework-as-a-Service), strike a balance between engineering excellence and test quality, architect and develop solutions across multiple delivery pipelines, and establish best practices & processes which improve developer efficiencies and product quality.The ideal candidate will also have a track record of having worked with multiple cross-functional teams and the ability to handle multiple initiatives as part of the overall product release pipeline. You are a key influencer in your team’s strategy and contribute significantly to team planning. You show good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs. You are a collaborative partner that makes other team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to others.
Scope and Complexity: You have acquired subject-matter expertise over one or more production software systems and demonstrated a pattern of shipping high quality feature changes in that or those system(s)
Decision Making: You solve business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices. You are able to lead the design and development of the most complex enhancements.
Execution: You have built multiple stable, scalable feature changes that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.
Operations: Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You are a role model to other teams. Your software contributions in production are the model of highly available, low latency, and efficient software. Your documentation in code, on technical designs, and operations provide clarity to any engineer interacting with your software or its code.
Influence: You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to other engineers.
Communication: You are an effective communicator as exemplified by your technical documentation, and your interactions with stakeholders and adjacent teams. You can effectively represent the technical decisions from your team to senior stakeholders as well as communicate well enough with the team.
What to Bring:- 9 – 13 years of experience in software application development building frameworks and tools; Brings in high proficiency and technical leadership
- Good experience working with different device types and operating systems such as Windows, OSX, iOS, tvOS, Android, Roku, FireTV, Xbox, Playstation, Tizen, WebOS & SetTop boxes
- Expertise in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python or other similar programming languages
- Develop high-quality software design and architecture
- 2+ experience working on cloud technologies like AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience working on CI/CD delivery model using Github actions, Armory or any other tools
- Experience in automation frameworks like Appium, Selenium, Suitest and other similar frameworks
- Nice to have exposure / experience working with device farms like BrowserStack, SauceLab, AWS Device farm, HeadSpin.
- Experience working with Rest APIs, gRPC
- Exposure to working on Report portal, Grafana and other reporting tools
- Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code
- Understanding of multiple test types including unit, functional, integration, end to end, security, performance, load, contract test automation and UI tests including test runners like Cucumber/BDD testing
- Well versed with Scrum methodologies, Jira, defect life cycle, version control tools
- Able to drive and steer discussions and meetings to achieve desired goals
- Able to collaborate and work with development teams across multiple time zones and locations
- Ability to focus both strategically and tactically to achieve business goals, including the use of data to drive improvements
- Good verbal and written communication skills
What We Offer:- A Great Place to work
- Equal opportunity employer
- Fast track growth opportunity.
How We Get Things Done…
This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.
Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.If you’re a qualified candidate and you require adjustments or accommodations to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.
