SDET

Our client is seeking a Senior Quality Automation Engineer (SDET) with deep experience testing and automating physical video devices, including Smart TVs and OTT hardware platforms. This role is heavily focused on device-level workflows, video playback behavior, and real-world consumer hardware validation, ensuring a consistent and high-quality viewing experience across living-room devices.

You will be responsible for designing automation solutions that validate how applications behave on actual TVs and streaming devices, not just simulators or browsers, working closely with engineering teams to embed quality throughout the development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain reusable automated test frameworks focused on physical video devices, APIs, UI layers, and video playback components

• Validate end-to-end application workflows on real Smart TVs and OTT devices, including navigation, playback, error handling, and device-specific behaviors

• Design and implement automation strategies for TV and OTT device ecosystems, accounting for hardware constraints, OS variations, and remote-control interactions

• Automate testing of video playback behavior, including adaptive bitrate (ABR) transitions, buffering, startup time, and playback stability on physical devices

• Partner with device, platform, and application engineers to ensure high-quality device coverage across releases

• Integrate device-focused automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous validation of device builds

• Create and maintain clear, comprehensive test plans and test cases specific to device workflows and video scenarios

• Participate in code and design reviews, providing feedback on testability, device constraints, and architecture

• Champion quality engineering practices with a strong focus on real-device validation

• Mentor QA engineers on automation strategies for physical devices and OTT platforms

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience as a Quality Automation Engineer / SDET with a focus on physical video devices

• Hands-on experience testing applications on Smart TVs and OTT devices, not just web or mobile

• Solid understanding of video playback fundamentals, including ABR streaming, buffering behavior, and playback metrics on constrained hardware

• Experience automating device workflows, including remote control input, UI navigation, and playback validation

• Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines

• Ability to collaborate closely with device engineers, application developers, and QA teams

Nice to Have

• Experience with Smart TV and OTT platforms such as Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Android TV, Roku, Fire TV

• Familiarity with device-level debugging, logs, and performance analysis

• Experience validating video quality across different hardware profiles and OS versions

• Background in consumer video, entertainment, or large-scale OTT platforms