Sr. Manager, QA Engineering-Xumo

Xumo, a joint venture between Comcast and Charter Communications, was formed to develop and offer a next‑generation streaming platform for the entire entertainment industry. The company consists of three primary lines of business:
Xumo devices, Xumo Play, and Xumo Enterprise. Powered by Comcast’s global entertainment platform, Xumo devices feature a world‑class user interface with universal voice search capabilities, making it easy for consumers to find and enjoy their favorite streaming content. Xumo Play is a free ad‑supported streaming TV (FAST) service offering hundreds of linear channels and on‑demand options. Xumo Enterprise provides tools and services for content creators, distributors, and advertisers to make FAST content more accessible.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager of Quality Assurance and Automation Engineering to lead and scale Xumo’s quality strategy with a strong focus on Xumo Play. This role is accountable for end‑to‑end quality across multi‑platform client applications and the supporting backend services and platform integrations, ensuring consistent user experience, performance, reliability, and release confidence. The Senior Manager of QA will manage globally distributed QA and QA automation teams across Philadelphia, Irvine, Chennai, and other locations in India, partnering closely with Engineering, Product, and Platform teams to embed quality throughout the development lifecycle.

A strong data‑and metric‑driven mindset is critical, including defining quality KPIs, tracking automation effectiveness, and using operational data to drive continuous improvement and executive decision‑making. Familiarity with advertising and monetization technologies in streaming ecosystems is a strong differentiator.

Position is office based in Philadelphia, PA, 4 days on‑site & 1 day remote.

• Own end‑to‑end QA strategy for Xumo Play across EntOS, X1, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Android TV and Mobile, iOS, tvOS, and VegaOS, spanning client apps, backend services/APIs, and platform integrations.
• Ensure consistent functional quality, performance, stability, and UX across Smart TV, connected device, and mobile environments.
• Define scalable testing approaches to manage platform fragmentation, OS variation, device capabilities, and release‑cadence differences.
• Establish quality gates and readiness criteria that maintain release confidence while minimizing platform‑specific risk.
• Own QA oversight for backend services and APIs, including contract testing, integration testing, and regression coverage for releases that impact Xumo Play.
• Validate critical user journeys and platform integrations (client‑to‑service), including promotions, notifications, experimentation, ad playback and ad‑serving workflows, measurement/telemetry, and other monetization‑related flows—ensuring reliability, performance, and compatibility across supported ecosystems.

• Lead, manage, and scale dedicated QA test automation teams supporting Xumo Play client and platform ecosystems.
• Define automation strategy, tooling, and frameworks aligned to Lightning 3, RDK, JavaScript, React Native, and platform‑specific technologies.
• Drive adoption of automated functionality, integration, performance, and regression testing across all supported platforms.
• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines in partnership with engineering teams.
• Define and own QA and automation KPIs, including coverage, defect escape rates, platform stability metrics, and release readiness indicators.
• Use metrics and data to continuously improve quality outcomes and communicate quality health to leadership.

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game‑changing technology, products and services, especially our digital…