Position Summary:
**MUST BE WILLING TO GO ONSITE IN NYC 3 DAYS/WEEK**
QA Engineer Manager
Contract
New York, New York (On-site/Hybrid)
We are seeking an individual to work with a Fortune 50 Broadcast Media & Entertainment leader located in New York, New York. As the QA Manager, you will be responsible to help the video engineering team build & manage systems that deliver all content on a new streaming application, including 24/7 linear streams and live events. In this position, you will also be responsible for ensuring timeliness of QA deliverables, making enhancing and debugging fixes, as well as communicate with stakeholders.
Role Responsibilities
- Work closely and collaboratively with stakeholders to understand new features and initiatives
- Break down functional and non-functional requirements into user stories, and present them to the team in planning sessions
- Predict potential problems, identify edge cases and outline key risks or issues together with the team and ensure they are communicated to the Engineering Managers
- Documenting features or initiatives through API documentation, sequence diagrams or feature documentation
- Prepare and facilitate pre-planning/planning sessions with the team for weekly iterations, based on the priorities on our product roadmap
- Understand how the Ad delivery works with other Peacock components and contribute to ensuring these integrations are both resilient and reliable
- Facilitate estimation sessions with the team to obtain high level roadmap estimates
- Be a constant source of product information and direction for the team
- Support the team in delivering high impact, high quality work that is built with focus on optimal user experience
Qualifications
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, and demonstrable experience working with highly collaborative software engineering teams
- Experience working with BDD, writing detailed user stories and supporting acceptance criteria
- Hands on experience defining and documenting technical requirements and translating them into user stories/accompanying documentation
- Ability to communicate effectively and explain complex problems in a simple way
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Enjoy collaborating with others, both inside and outside the team
- Understanding of deadlines, constraints and scope of delivery and experience working with the business partners to ensure the right balance between these are met, setting expectations and handling risks early
- Ability to integrate into a large agile development project and manage rapid development cycles
- Understanding of the basics of video streaming technologies and ad insertion
- Interest in promoting an inclusive team culture where engineers of diverse backgrounds can grow
- Committed to quality in every assignment, large or small
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