Senior QA & Release Engineer

Discovery Communications is a global mass media and entertainment company. The company operates through U.S. networks; international networks; education; and other segments. It owns and operates television networks under many brand names, including Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, Science, Velocity, Discovery Family, American Heroes, Destination America, Discovery Life, Oprah Winfrey Network, Eurosport, DMAX, and Discovery Kids.

Responsibilities: - Build up a leading edge QA practice. Select best tools for QA environment and define workflows for defect-free releases. 2. Own Selenium test automation framework. Design, develop, execute, and maintain automated test scripts. 3. Investigate test and production failures, perform root-cause analysis and create detailed, high-quality error reports. 4. Work closely with Product Management and design to understand requirements. QA regress test changes during the last 3 days of each Sprint. Manage manual testing if needed. 5. Coordinate product deployments to production environment, including migration and rollback plan. Script and automate when appropriate. 6. Ensure proper sign-offs and notifications to stakeholders. Schedule and communicate maintenance windows.

Requirements: - The ideal candidate possesses the highest level of experience in software engineering, and application architecture. * ?Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience?.?? * 3 years in QA or DevOps, with at least 1 year managing automation/testing practice. * Knowledgeable about programming concepts needed to write code to test web applications. Understands the difference between integration and acceptance tests. * Excellent communication and coordination skills across multiple teams. * Experience with JIRA or other bug and issue tracking tools, GIT or other Source Code Management, and AGILE development. * Ability to specify acceptance criteria for a product and write tests around acceptance criteria. * Is EXCITED to develop tests and work toward a functional, strong CI testing suite. * Good understanding of server and cloud computing technologies from providers such as AWS and Rackspace. * Experience in supporting a QA practice for very high traffic web assets. * Must have legal right to work in the United States