Software Engineer, Test - SDET, Automation

Software Engineer, Test - SDET, Automation

Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and we've set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers.

From your first day at Roku, you'll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We're a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines.

This is a great role for a Software Engineer in Test (SDET), with a background in developing automated tools and tests on resource constrained hardware platforms. These tools and tests will be used daily to further improve our products and help deliver the highest quality software releases that will be deployed to devices in the field. In this role, you will develop tools that test, monitor, and analyse metrics of millions of players and TV products.

Roku is seeking a versatile Software Engineer, Test to build out fully automated test suites as well as performance monitoring tools. You will build automation that validates both Roku OS system software and the largest, top‑tier streaming applications that run across Roku TVs and Players, and all the required infrastructure surrounding it. This includes extending existing tests and building new ones to reliably measure memory usage, playback performance, conformance to specifications and so on.

You will also be responsible for building and maintaining a small multi‑platform device farm that can be used by test and firmware engineers to build and run tests.

You will work cross-functionally with various engineering teams. The role requires an energetic and self‑motivated individual with excellent communication, organisation, and technical skills.

• Develop and maintain an automation framework focused on testing high‑profile streaming applications
• Actively collaborate with team of firmware and automation engineers to build and release features that are highly testable, functional, and robust.
• Integrate multi‑platform and multi‑technology heterogeneous test suites.
• Build and maintain a device farm to run and maintain automated tests and capture results.
• Identify automation opportunities proactively and act independently.
• Review feature specifications, write test plans, and develop automated tests.
• Schedule automated tests, monitor and triage test results

• Excellent Python programming skills, with 4+ years relevant technical experience.
• Experience with a variety of automated testing frameworks, with ability to articulate their pros and cons in a particular context.
• Working alongside firmware developers, manual QA testers across different cross‑functional teams.
• Proficient in several programming languages and experience developing test plans & test cases.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and work independently.
• Bachelors or masters degree in computer science or equivalent engineering experience.
• Experience with browser‑based application testing (e.g., using Selenium).
• Experience with iOS test automation and Apple platform tooling (e.g., XCTest/XCUITest)
• Experience with the Appium framework for mobile UI automation.

Roku is committed to offering a diverse range of benefits as part of our compensation package to support our employees and their families. Our comprehensive benefits include global access to mental health and financial wellness support and resources. Local benefits include statutory and voluntary benefits which may include healthcare (medical, dental, and vision), life, accident, disability, commuter, and retirement options (401(k)/pension).

Our employees can take time off work for vacation and other personal reasons to balance their evolving work and life needs. It's important to note that not every benefit is available in all…