Software Development Engineer 3 at Comcast (Chennai, India)

The Company

Founded in 1963, and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK) is a global media and technology company with two primary businesses: NBCUniversal and Comcast Cable. NBCUniversal operates 30 news and entertainment cable networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, television production operations, television station groups, Universal Pictures, and Universal Parks & Resorts.  Comcast Cable Communications, LLC (“Comcast Cable”) is the nation’s largest video, highspeed internet, and phone provider to residential and business customers under the XFINITY brand.  Comcast has invested in technology to build a sophisticated network that delivers the fastest broadband speeds, and brings customers personalized video, communications, home management offerings, and business services. 

COMCAST India

Comcast’s Technology & Product organization works at the intersection of media and technology. Our innovative teams are continually developing and delivering products that transform the customer experience.  From creating 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.

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Eng 3, Software Engineer (Test)

As a Software Engineer in Test, you will be part of an Agile DevOps team responsible for the ingest of all VOD content for Comcast and our external customers. This is an exciting time for the organization as we are in the early stages of developing a single platform (OneIngest) that ingests, processes and distributes allVODand advertising assets for all Comcast video and CTS partners. In addition, we are continuing to support our existing VOD Ingest platform.

You will work alongside Content Operations, Product Management, Program Management, Architecture and TPx engineering organizations such as VIPER to continue testing our current VOD Ingest platform and creating the test framework for OneIngest. And, finally, since you will be part of the CTS Video Platform organization, you will be tightly aligned with the Seattle and Denver based teams on larger software and organizational initiatives.

What are some interesting problems you'll be working on?

• Scale the VOD ingest platforms to handle the processing of hundreds or thousands of assets.
• Work directly with external customers to syndicate services such as content origination and processing.
• Transform VOD metadata for the needs of Comcast's X1 platform and CTS syndicated partners.
• Transcode, encrypt, package, process, store and distribute video and image files.

Where can you make an impact?

You'll be working with the brightest minds in Comcast while we roll out the video systems that will power both the current and next generation of television.

Success in this role is characterized by minimizing time to market of new features from concept to implementation, meanwhile removing customer-facing defects and impacts of component outages.

Job Summary:

Your responsibilities will span the entire product life cycle, from requirements gathering, to development, to deployment, and operations support. You will be responsible for a number of things, including: automating and testing a web UI, middle tier, and/or backend; working with the operations team to deploying the code in production and troubleshoot subsequent production issues; or you may develop scripts and utilities to automate data collection; interpret the collected data, and suggest a resolution to issues you uncover in the data.

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 enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing 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.
• Drive results and growth.
• Respect and promote inclusion and diversity.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Core Responsibilities:

• Automate and test solutions to a wide range of difficult applications, problems or procedures.
• Define and manage processes to facilitate user acceptance testing events, including demos, test execution and defect management.
• Provide input into end user and production support processes based on testing results.
• Monitor bugs and issues reported via production support to continuously improve testing processes.
• Create and maintain project deliverables to ensure test plans, scripts, acceptance criteria, results, defect logs, etc. are thoroughly and consistently documented using standard templates and centralized repository.
• Interpret internal/external business issues and recommend complete solutions based on best practices and proven technologies.
• Work with other members of cross-functional teams, third party vendors, and company product managers and marketing teams to deliver quality products in a timely fashion that meet defined requirements.
• Be diligent about recording/documenting development, testing and production support activities and tasks in Jira or other tools.
• Ensure that project requests are properly accepted into the DevOps engineering team, worked on in a timely and efficient manner, are of high quality, and smoothly going through the DevOps life cycle continuous innovation, feedback, and improvement.
• Deploy new systems and software including appropriate testing to ensure successful deployment. Determine the necessary test coverage and plans for deployment strategy.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• Occasional on-call support is expected

Job Specification:

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent (Computer Science or Engineering degree)
• Requires 5-8 years related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with comprehensive testing strategies, including unit, functional, system, integration, end-to-end, regression, load, and performance testing.
• Excellent with one or more Test automation tools and technologies like Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG, LamdaTest, Jmeter.
• Protractor / Angular JS UI automation testing is a plus.
• Experience with core Java, Spring and Maven.
• Experience or understanding of a variety of scripting languages including PERL, Unix Shell, Groovy, and JavaScript.
• Working knowledge of testing scalable microservices
• Ability to navigate Linux operating systems
• Excellent troubleshooting skills for network, Linux, and application issues
• Working experience with DataStax/Cassandra or other NoSQL database
• Experience with build/deployment automation (Jenkins, TeamCity)
• Experience with Java test automation (JUnit, Mockito)
• Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes or other containerization frameworks is a plus.
• Prior experience or understanding of the Agile development framework

Compliance Disclaimer:

Comcast NBCUniversal is an equal opportunity, Veterans, Disabled and LGBT employer

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