Lead Software Engineer in Test

About the Role Paramount Skydance Corp. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in Test to design, architect, and deliver high-quality, scalable automated testing solutions across our enterprise platforms. This senior technical role combines deep Java engineering expertise, advanced test automation, media/streaming domain knowledge, and modern CI/CD practices to accelerate quality, reduce risk, and ensure world-class customer experiences across CTV, SmartTV, mobile, and web. You will be a senior technical leader within the Global Quality Engineering (GQE) organization. You will use and enhance our existing departmental automation framework, define quality strategies, and mentor engineers across GQE to elevate testing maturity and engineering excellence. You will also drive AI-augmented development and testing practices using GitHub Copilot (in-IDE), Cursor, and similar tools. What You'll Do

• 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.
• Apply prompt engineering and retrieval techniques to accelerate test case generation, log/telemetry summarization, video-quality anomaly detection, and root-cause analysis.
• 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. What We're Looking For
• Deep Java engineering expertise with extensive experience in test automation for APIs, UI, mobile, and streaming platforms.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD practices, test strategy, and quality engineering leadership.
• Experience mentoring engineers and elevating testing maturity within a large engineering organization.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development and testing tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, LLM-based assistants).
• Domain experience in media/streaming, DRM, SSAI/CSAI ad insertion, captions/subtitles, QoE measurement, and cross-device quality.
• Excellent collaboration skills and a track record of delivering reliable, scalable automation solutions.