Senior Quality Engineer

Responsibilities

Who We Are :

SiriusXM and its brands (Pandora, SXM Media, AdsWizz, Simplecast, and SiriusXM Connected Vehicle Services) are leading a new era of audio entertainment and services by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad-supported audio entertainment experience for listeners - in the car, at home, and anywhere on the go with connected devices.

Our vision is to shape the future of audio, where everyone can be effortlessly connected to the voices, stories and music they love wherever they are.

This is the place where a diverse group of emerging talent and legends alike come to share authentic and purposeful songs, stories, sounds and insights through some of the best programming and technology in the world.

Our critically-acclaimed, industry-leading audio entertainment encompasses music, sports, comedy, news, talk, live events, and podcasting.

No matter their individual role, each of our employees plays a vital part in bringing SiriusXM's vision to life every day.

SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America, and the premier programmer and platform for subscription and digital advertising-supported audio products.

SiriusXM's platforms collectively reach approximately 150 million listeners, the largest digital audio audience across paid and free tiers in North America, and deliver music, sports, talk, news, comedy, entertainment and podcasts.

Pandora, a subsidiary of SiriusXM, is the largest ad-supported audio entertainment streaming service in the U.S. SiriusXM's subsidiaries Simplecast and AdsWizz make it a leader in podcast hosting, production, distribution, analytics and monetization.

The Company's advertising sales organization, which operates as SXM Media, leverages its scale, cross-platform sales organization and ad tech capabilities to deliver results for audio creators and advertisers.

SiriusXM, through Sirius XM Canada Holdings, Inc., also offers satellite radio and audio entertainment in Canada. In addition to its audio entertainment businesses, SiriusXM offers connected vehicle services to automakers.

How you'll make an impact :

We're seeking a Senior Quality Engineer for our team, which is responsible for ensuring that our iOS, Android, Web, and Consumer Electronics users have the very best music experience.

You'll have a huge impact on the quality of SiriusXM's growing suite of products and services by acting as a champion of quality engineering.

You will be involved in all testing activities throughout the SDLC. You will leverage your knowledge and experience in testing to influence better software design, promote best practices, introduce bug prevention strategies, testability, and other advanced quality concepts across products.

What you'll do

• Analyze business requirements, design documentation, and technical specifications to ensure that they are clearly defined, complete, and testable, and develop manual test strategies against them
• Create and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts to verify new and existing software functionality
• Test applications via Black Box, Regression, Release, Stress, and Negative testing methods
• Identify issues / bugs and report to developers and product owners
• Debug defects and be able to differentiate between client and backend issues
• Validate fixes and new features
• Drive the organizational initiative to improve Test Coverage and Automation across the product portfolio
• Provide metric reporting of test execution, defects, and project status to the executive team
• Provide mentorship to other team members
• Works with management in determining resource allocation and project scheduling
• Create and facilitate training and ongoing learning plans
• Collaborate with other QE engineers on major initiatives and feature testing
• Attend design and product update meetings representing Quality Engineering team
• Contribute both to the definition and the enforcement of quality assurance processes and procedures based on best practice methodology
• Provide status updates for all QE / TPM / Dev resources during the testing cycle
• Working knowledge of the backend infrastructure, services, APIs, and proactively learn new testing and technology trends that will impact testing of upcoming releases

What you'll need :

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent preferred OR 6+ years of experience in a Quality Engineering or a similar customer-centric technical field
• 3-5 years of experience in leading projects with multiple teams
• 3+ years experience testing mobile (Android, iOS) and web client applications
• Has working knowledge of various automation frameworks
• Solid knowledge of digital streaming native apps and industry trends
• Experience with tools like Charles, Fiddler, Jenkins, test case management systems, XCode, Android Studio, etc.
• Experience in root cause analysis and able to troubleshoot the bugs found
• Knowledge of client-server architecture and able to track the network calls
• Understands key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work
• Project management experience, track record of delivering high quality products while meeting scheduling commitments
• Ability to mentor and coach team members
• Good public speaking and presentation skills, interpersonal skills and ability to interact and work with staff and external partners at all levels
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently and within a team
• Detail-oriented and well-organized
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Commitment to both internal and external client quality and customer advocacy
• Willingness to take initiative and to follow through on projects

Our goal at SiriusXM is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters mutual respect, professionalism and cooperation.

SiriusXM is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, gender identity, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

The requirements and duties described above may be modified or waived by the Company in its sole discretion without notice.