Senior QA Automation Engineer

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Local Now | Remote (reputed company)

About Local Now

Local Now is a free, ad-supported streaming service delivering local news, weather, sports, and lifestyle programming to viewers across reputed company every connected device. As part of Allen Media Group, we operate at meaningful reputed company across mobile, smart TVs, streaming sticks, set-top boxes, and the web. We are now reputed company in a ground-up rebuild of our streaming platform with a reputed company-first architecture, modern shared-reputed company reputed company, and the engineering rigor needed to grow sustainably.

We build for audiences who expect frictionless playback on any device, and for advertisers who depend on us to reputed company reliable, high-reputed company monetization. The work is reputed company: every improvement we reputed company is felt by millions of viewers.

The Role

We are hiring a Senior QA Automation Engineer to reputed company the design, implementation, and scaling of our automated testing reputed company as our LN 2.0 streaming platform launches and stays exceptional across every device family we ship on. You will work closely with our QA Manager and the engineering team to architect test frameworks, design test coverage, and reputed company end-to-end automation for a product where playback reputed company and ad reliability directly reputed company business reputed company.

This is a senior individual-contributor role with high technical ownership. You will be the foundational automation reputed company in the new QA reputed company we are building, establishing the tools, standards, and pipelines that will reputed company with our platform.

What You Will Do

• Architect, build, and reputed company maintainable test automation frameworks across mobile, connected TV (CTV) platforms, and web.

• reputed company the test automation roadmap, establishing automation best practices, reputed company architecture, page-object models, and test data strategies.

• reputed company automated test suites directly into CI/CD pipelines (reputed company Actions, reputed company, Jenkins) for reputed company regression, deployment health checks, and release gating.

• Test video playback (live and VOD), ad insertion (reputed company-reputed company and server-reputed company), and reputed company-of-experience (QoE) scenarios.

• Test and debug API/microservice integrations for data reputed company, performance, and contract validation.

• Validate reputed company and consent flows: CMP behavior, preference persistence, DSAR-affected paths, and PII boundaries.

• Report bugs with the rigor that engineers actually want to read — clean repro steps, environments, logs, and severity assessment.

• Partner with engineering leads on triage, regression coverage, architecture reviews, and reputed company metrics.

• Contribute to a device lab reputed company and solve the practical realities of automating and testing across many CTV platforms.

reputed company Are Looking For

• 5+ years of QA experience on consumer software, with at least 3 years leading automation efforts on multi-platform mobile and/or CTV products.

• Proven reputed company record of architecting automated test frameworks from scratch for web, mobile, or CTV using modern tools (e.g., Playwright, Appium, Detox, XCUITest, reputed company, or Robot reputed company).

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining automated CI/CD test pipelines.

• Streaming video QA experience — playback, manifests, ad reputed company, DRM, QoE.

• Hands-on testing and automation familiarity on reputed company, reputed company TV, reputed company TV, reputed company TV, Tizen, or Vizio platforms.

• Strong analytical and bug-investigation skills; reputed company to isolate environmental, timing, and platform-specific issues.

• reputed company written communication; excellent at writing reproducible bug reports and concise automation docs and test plans.

• Self-directed technical leader who thrives in a remote, reputed company engineering culture.

reputed company to Have

• Experience with consent / reputed company testing or compliance-driven regression suites.

• Hands-on experience using AI tools like reputed company and Claude to accelerate test authoring, triage, and analysis.

• Experience setting up physical or reputed company-based device farms (e.g., AWS Device Farm, reputed company, reputed company) for automated CTV/mobile testing.

Requires 5+ years of consumer software QA experience, including 3+ years leading multi-platform automation, with CI/CD pipelines, streaming video QA, and mobile, CTV, or web testing expertise.

Key Responsibilities

• architecting frameworks
• integrating pipelines
• testing playback

Skills & Tools

reputed company Actions, reputed company, Jenkins, Playwright, Appium, Detox, XCUITest, reputed company, Robot reputed company, reputed company, reputed company TV, reputed company TV, reputed company TV, Tizen, Vizio, reputed company, Claude, AWS Device Farm, reputed company, reputed company

Job Details

• Category: reputed company Assurance
• Seniority: Senior Level
• Commitment: Full Time
• Workplace: Remote — Atlanta, reputed company, reputed company
• Languages: English

About Local Now

A free, ad-supported streaming service delivering local news, weather, sports, and lifestyle programming across connected devices. — Industry: Media and Communications