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Paramount

Senior Live Video Quality Software Engineer

Paramount

. Quality Assurance workflows across a suite of back-end and front-end frameworks .

Posted 4/22/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $125,000 - $160,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Quality Assurance workflows across a suite of back-end and front-end frameworks
  • Other video QA and software engineers to build, test, and release these video platforms
  • Automation testing across the whole end-to-end video lifecycle, including acquisition, processing, delivery and playback.
  • Development and maintenance of internal automated QA systems, ensuring that QA testing is seamlessly integrated with continuous integration and deployment strategies
  • Define and develop useful metrics and alerts for monitoring live streaming events and proactively identify reliability risks.
  • Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and technical excellence.
  • Working with internal services to increase automation of the QA workflow.
  • Reviewing test plans with team members to test across different points in the video pipeline.
  • Analyzing test reports, and thoroughly documenting bugs.
  • Create and maintain detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.
  • Monitor and track resolution of defects, coordinating with developers in order to prevent, report, and resolve defects
  • Provide QA support both pre and post deployment including occasional evenings and weekends.
  • Investigate and resolve issues in live streaming workflows by collecting relevant logs and metrics, diving into troubleshooting, and suggesting mitigations.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Experience developing pytest automated test framework (or similar)
  • Experience working with distributed systems and creating QA strategies to enhance fault-tolerant of such architectures.
  • 7+ years of experience with live streaming video or distributed software QA.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills.
  • Drive issues to resolution and provide root cause analysis if needed.
  • Experience with streaming protocols such as HLS, DASH, CMAF, SRT, Zixi, RTP, RTMP.
  • Experience with modern video & audio codecs such as H264, HEVC, VP9, AV1, AAC.
  • Knowledge and understanding of DRM, SCTE-104/35, Closed Captioning, Digital Ad Insertion.
  • Experience with AWS Media Services (MediaLive, MediaConnect, MediaPackage) and / or competing vendors (Zixi, Unified Origin, ATETE, Harmonic, Bitmovin).
  • Experience with REST APIs and data-interchange formats such as JSON and XML.
  • The ability to successfully work with internal business units & teams with varying technical backgrounds.
  • BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • 401(k) plan
  • life insurance coverage
  • disability benefits
  • tuition assistance program
  • PTO
  • bonus eligible

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Hard Skills & Tools
pytestautomation testinglive streaming video QAtroubleshootingstreaming protocolsvideo codecsAWS Media ServicesREST APIsJSONXML
Soft Skills
mentoringcollaborationtechnical excellencecommunicationproblem-solvingroot cause analysiscoordinationdocumentationanalysisadaptability