Overview Of The Company
Fox Corporation
Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world's leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.
Job Description
As an Sr. SDET - Manager, you will lead a team of skilled SDETs guiding them in ensuring the quality and performance of our software products. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to develop and implement automation strategies, enhance testing frameworks, and ensure robust performance and security testing. Your expertise in backend tools, frameworks, and DevOps activities will be crucial in maintaining the reliability and scalability of our systems.
About You
- Have Ownership - you feel ownership over everything you ship; you'd never call code done until you're confident it's correct
- Passion - you pride yourself on efficient monitoring, strong documentation, and proper test coverage. You are excited to work with a modern technology stack, but you have demonstrable experience with a diverse pool of technologies
- Be a team player - you believe that you can achieve more on a team, that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts; you rely on others candid feedback for continuous improvement.
- Have an ability to make an impact - you seek new methods and tools to make great applications faster and better, both on the front-end and back-end
- Never stop learning - you expose yourself to the latest & great technologies and are continuously learning
- Be proactive - you discuss and make suggestions for process improvement on how to do things more efficiently
- Collaborate - you partner with a diverse group of professionals with different skills & disciplines across the organization to achieve a common goal
a Snapshot Of Your Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of SDETs, fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement
- Collaborate with development, product, and operations teams to align on quality objectives and deliverables
- Define and implement quality assurance processes and best practices.
- Develop and enhance backend tools and frameworks for testing REST APIs, microservices, and data migration scenarios
- Implement and maintain automated test suites for performance, security, and mobile app testing
- Design and execute tests for performance and scalability of distributed systems
- Conduct security testing to identify vulnerabilities and ensure compliance with industry standards
- Work with technologies such as Big Data, Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL, and scripting languages
- Utilize mid-tier caches and big data solutions like Aerospike, DynamoDB, Elastic Search, Hadoop, Cassandra, and Kafka
- Implement DevOps activities, including blue-green deployments and failover scenarios
- Leverage cloud services, particularly Amazon AWS, for testing and deployment
- Develop and maintain comprehensive test plans and test cases.
- Perform both white box and black box testing
- Ensure adherence to industry best practices in software development, including unit testing, OO design, and code reviews
- Utilize CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment
- Create, maintain, and execute test plans and test cases against our software platforms and applications in the cloud, server, desktop and mobile environments
- Analyze and communicate test results and defect tracking
- Execute white box, black box, and manual testing
- Participate in day-to-day team activities as part of an Agile team
- Engage in cross-functional integration testing within technology teams and with third parties
- Engage in requirements elaboration and clarification with the product owner
- Enhance and extend the automation library
- Contribute to performance and scalability testing efforts
- Provide the testing estimates to the team
- Mentor and share the testing practices with the scrum team
- Technical ownership of software testing infrastructure and improving product quality
- Take responsibility for monitoring product development and usage at all levels with an eye toward improving product quality
- Work on automation testing for all existing systems
- Support all production releases per sprint
- Research, develop and/or recommend tools to assist the team
What You Will Need
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
- Extensive experience with Agile/Scrum development processes
- Proven experience in developing backend tools and frameworks for testing REST APIs and microservices
- Hands-on experience with distributed and big data solutions
- Proficiency with Amazon AWS or similar cloud providers
- Strong understanding of DevOps activities and build-release-deployment flows
- Hands-on experience with Linux commands and shell scripts.
- Experience with Git and CI tools
- Excellent communication, both verbal and written
NICE TO HAVE, BUT NOT A DEAL BREAKER
- B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Learn more about Fox Tech at
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We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.
At FOX, we foster a culture and environment where everyone feels welcome and can thrive. We are deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including attracting, retaining, and promoting diverse talent across our company. We live in a diverse world, with different ideas and different perspectives that come together to spark new ideas and make great things happen. That means reflecting the diversity of the world around us is critical to our company's success. We ensure that our viewers, communities and employees feel heard, represented, and celebrated both on screen and off.
