Hiring: Lead Software Engineer (Java) in Test Company: Paramount+ Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 11:38:54 Employment Type: Contract / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Android, Azure, CDN, CI/CD, Datadog, Docker, GCP, GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Gradle, Grafana, Integration Testing, JMeter, Java, Jenkins, Kubernetes, LLM, Locust, Maven, Microservices, Playwright, Prometheus, REST, Selenium, Spinnaker, Systems Integration, TestNG, iOS About the job Experience: •7+ years of experience in software engineering or quality engineering with robust Java development expertise. Required Skills: •Enhance and extend our existing Java-based departmental test automation framework supporting API, UI, Mobile, CTV/SmartTV, and integration testing; introduce reusable libraries, utilities, and patterns to improve stability and scale. •Establish 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 GitHub Copilot (IDE), Cursor, and LLM-based assistants to improve developer productivity, test authoring velocity, code reviews, and defect triage. •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. Qualifications: •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). •Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo, Spinnaker) and quality gates. •Proven experience testing media/streaming applications across CTV (Roku, Fire TV, Android TV/Google TV), SmartTV (Tizen/webOS), iOS/Android mobile, and web. •Hands-on validation of HLS/DASH, ABR, DRM, captions/subtitles, and QoE metrics. •Cloud experience (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes). •Solid knowledge of software design patterns, data structures, and core engineering principles. •Operational familiarity with observability and APM tools (Grafana, Prometheus, NewRelic, DataDog) and media telemetry(Conviva, MUX, NPAW etc). •Exposure to CTV/SmartTV automation stacks and remote device labs. •Technical leadership – ability to guide teams and evolve automation coverage. Compensation: •Competitive benefits and rewards package Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!