Our client is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company helping more than 750 clients succeed in a converging world. They go the extra mile for their clients and accelerate their digital transformation with the Mosaic platform enabling their mobile, social, analytics, IoT, and cloud journeys.
Our client is a USD 4 billion company with 90,000+ professionals across five continents, helping global customers with innovative solutions.
The Group operates in the key industries that drive economic growth, enjoying a leadership position in the construction industry, financial industry, and technology.
We are currently searching for a Remote Senior Automation Tester - Media & Entertainment:
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain automated tests for APIs, distributed systems, and data pipelines.
- Collaborate with developers to ensure that testability is a primary concern in new features.
- Contribute to strategies for load, integration, system, and performance testing.
- Contribute to building observable systems, incorporating effective logging, monitoring, and alerting practices.
- Promote and enforce the use of logging metrics, alerts, and tracing to support observable systems that can be easily reasoned about and to find/fix issues.
- Collaborate on continuous integration (CI) improvements to catch issues earlier in the dev lifecycle.
- Develop and maintain modern, modular, type-annotated Python code.
Requirements
- Proven experience in testing typical JSON REST APIs.
- Conceptual understanding of testing a distributed, eventually consistent web of services.
- Basic understanding of asynchronous patterns, including when to leverage
- asyncio/event loop vs threading vs multiprocessing, Celery, and async job runners.
- Ability to write and review unit tests using pytest.
- Proficient in reading and writing basic SQL queries.
- Basic knowledge of TCP/IP networking fundamentals, including DNS, HTTP requests, and subnetting.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with cloud providers AWS, GCP, and OCI.
- Proficiency in using video testing tools such as Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress.
- Experience with performance testing tools like JMeter.
Desired
- Familiarity with Python annotations and type hints, mutability, and building Python modules in a larger app.
- Working knowledge of Go or Rust.
- Knowledge of CDN or Multi-CDN architectures.
- Experience with ABR streaming (adaptive bitrate streaming) concepts.
- Previous exposure to building observable systems: log aggregation, metrics pipelines, ETL processes.
- Experience in API orchestration within multi-CDN environments.
- Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tooling.
- Experience working with distributed systems and designing fault-tolerant architectures.
Languages
- Advanced Oral English.
Note:
- Fully remote.
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Top Skills:
- Proficiency in using video testing tools such as Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress.
- Experience with performance testing tools like JMeter.
- Experience with automated testing for APIs, distributed systems, and data pipelines.
- Familiarity with Python.
- Experience with ABR streaming (adaptive bitrate streaming).
- Experience with observability tools (logging, monitoring, alerting).
DevOps Experience:
- Experience with DevOps practices and tools like Docker and Kubernetes is required.
- Experience with continuous integration (CI) tools to catch issues earlier in the development lifecycle is also a requirement.
Media & Entertainment Experience:
- The job vacancy is in the Media & Entertainment department. Candidates with experience working on projects or with companies in this industry are highly desirable.
Locations:
- Candidates in Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia, or Argentina—in LATAM in general—can fill the role.
Languages
- Advanced Oral English.
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