Senior Software Engineer; Java in Test

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer in Test

Global Quality Engineering

New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco

Paramount Skydance Corp. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Test to design, architect, and deliver high‑quality, scalable, and reliable automated testing solutions across our enterprise platforms. This role requires proficient skills in Java engineering and advanced test automation, with knowledge of the media and streaming industry. The work will help provide great customer experiences on CTV, Smart

TV, mobile, and web platforms. As a member of the Global Quality Engineering (GQE) organization you will utilize our existing departmental automation framework, drive quality strategies, mentor engineers, and leverage AI‑augmented development and testing practices using tools such as Claude Code, Git Hub Copilot, Cursor, and similar tools.

• Create and maintain automated tests using our existing Java‑based departmental test automation framework supporting API, UI, Mobile, CTV/Smart
  
  TV, and integration testing; introduce reusable libraries, utilities, and patterns to improve stability and scale.
• Utilize scalable patterns for reusable test components, data management, assertions, parallelization, and distributed execution.
• Integrate the framework deeply into CI/CD pipelines to support shift‑left testing and continuous quality.

• Champion AI‑assisted development and testing using tools such as Git Hub Copilot (IDE), Cursor, and LLM‑based assistants to improve developer productivity, test authoring velocity, code reviews, and defect triage.
• Apply prompt engineering and retrieval techniques to accelerate test case generation, log/telemetry summarization, video‑quality anomaly detection, and root‑cause analysis.
• Evaluate and integrate functional AI capabilities that measurably reduce flakiness, false positives, and triage time within the existing framework.

• Expand automation coverage for video playback, streaming resiliency, DRM flows, SSAI/CSAI ad insertion, captions/subtitles, and content protection.
• Validate QoE metrics (startup time, rebuffering ratio, frame drops, video/audio sync, error recovery) across Roku, Fire TV, Android TV/Google TV, Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Apple TV, iOS/Android mobile apps, and modern web players.
• Leverage media tooling such as ffmpeg/ffprobe, Charles/Fiddler, and player inspection APIs for diagnostics and validation.
• Ensure consistent adoption of engineering best practices, coding standards, and high‑quality test development patterns.

• Partner with Video Engineering, Playback/Player, Ads/Monetization, CDN/Streaming Operations, and Platform teams to ensure robust validation of streaming experiences and ad workflows.
• Collaborate with Product to ensure test coverage aligns to business priorities and quality goals.
• Work closely with Platform and Data Engineering to support scalable test environments, quality data, and telemetry.

• Design and implement complex automated test suites using Java, Selenium, Appium, JMeter, Locust, REST‑Assured, TestNG/JUnit, and related tooling within the existing framework.
• Build and optimize testing strategies including API/contract, integration, performance/reliability, and device‑level testing for CTV/Smart
  
  TV, mobile, and web.
• Diagnose and tackle issues related to automation reliability, environment instability, device fragmentation, and system integration.

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering or quality engineering with solid Java development expertise.
• Demonstrated experience using and enhancing an existing enterprise/departmental automation framework.
• Deep expertise in common test automation tools (Selenium, Appium, Playwright, REST‑Assured, TestNG, JUnit, Maven/Gradle).
• AI experience (must‑have): hands‑on use of AI‑assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Git Hub Copilot (IDE), Cursor, or similar; useful prompt engineering skills for code and tests.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins,…