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Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery\xe2\x80\xa6 the stuff dreams are made of.Who We Are\xe2\x80\xa6When we say, \xe2\x80\x9cthe stuff dreams are made of,\xe2\x80\x9d we\xe2\x80\x99re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD\xe2\x80\x99s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what\xe2\x80\x99s next\xe2\x80\xa6From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.Senior Software Engineer, Global Content Experience Tools and Testing Foundations - Hyderabad.About Warner Bros. Discovery:Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world\'s most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media\xe2\x80\x99s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery\'s leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.Roles & Responsibilities:WBD DTC\xe2\x80\x99s Content Discovery Experience Services team is seeking an experienced and talented full-stack Senior Software Engineer. As a Senior Software Engineer within our Experience Service Tools team, you will play a pivotal role in designing and crafting reusable and globally scalable automation testing frameworks and tools to ensure our internal tools and experience services are of the highest quality in order to enable our internal users to create, build, and curate dynamic DTC content experiences and to efficiently power our DTC streaming apps.Your primary focus will be on setting and delivering high fidelity automation testing strategies and frameworks for our content discovery services and tools management of our DTC streaming apps including editorial tools and services that power the video and content experiences for millions of users globally. You will collaborate closely with a highly skilled group of back-end and front-end engineers to build the WBD global experience testing tools and platforms and enhance feature support across various products and expansions.The ideal candidate has a track record of having built multiple stable, scalable, and reliable automated testing suites that have been running successfully in production environments and provide extensive quality benefits multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production. Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You are a collaborative engineer that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. You have the ability to think like a product manager who builds tools and distributed services that cater to the needs of our internal partners (editorial and merchandising, personalization, search, and content discovery engineering and feature teams) with an eye for automation, quality, efficiency, and scale. You have a deep empathy for both internal stakeholders and external customers which rely on and extensively use the tools and services you build and support. You provide mentoring to junior engineers.Design and develop automated tests and tooling with an aim to automate validate of software quality against product requirements and industry standards for both our internal tools and our backend services which power our DTC app content discovery experiences.Contribute to design, develop, and maintain test automation frameworks, tools, and strategies for comprehensive test coverage.Design, implement, and maintain services that drive WBD DTC editorial and experience internal tools for editorial and merchandising, personalization, search, and content discovery feature teams.Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You can propose and create best practices proactively where none exists.You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code. You have experience in more than one backend and frontend language and understand the fundamentals of software engineering well enough to learn new languages and frameworks when the need arises.You understand a broad range of testing frameworks, data structures, API and system designs, and frontend frameworks and know how, when and when not to use them. You collaborate with more senior engineers and architects and can evaluate run-time performance and system design and understand how to trade off performance and efficiency using a variety of architectural and data structure approaches.You are comfortable advising others through code reviews, design reviews, and feedback on operational excellence. You are also comfortable receiving feedback and using it to grow as an engineer. You recognize that good ideas can come from anywhere, and work to make all your peers feel included and heard. You deliver facts and decisions with empathy and transparency to bring others along with you.You are a solid influencer in your team\xe2\x80\x99s strategy and can collaborate with technical leaders to team planning. You are a collaborative senior engineer that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to more junior engineers on your team.Your success is judged as much on your own productivity as on the positive impact you have on engineers around you.You can troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace, etc. to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it. You can identify root causes and identify learnings to improve both development processes and system design.You prioritize scalability, extensibility, reliability, and high performance in the development of the services and tools.You collaborate across multiple backend and frontend teams to ensure cohesive and efficient system development and architecture design.You contribute to the continuous improvement of processes and engineering excellence.What to Bring:Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in computer science or Similar discipline.5-7+ years of experience developing scalable automation testing frameworks, tools, and strategies across frontend and backend servicesExperience in developing full-stack solutions in Java and JavaScript with proficiency in Java development frameworks, including but not limited to Vert.x and Spring Boot and contemporary JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular). Experience with NodeJS, Python are a plus.Experience in backend and frontend software development, building micro services, event driven architectures and solutions.Strong knowledge and experience in multiple test types including unit, functional, integration, API, load and performance tests.Experience in private and public API design and cross-service integrationsDemonstrated ability to use common industry tools for software development including but not limited to IDEs, build and continuous integration, source control management, code review tools, data storage services, and cloud infrastructure, and you are able to build software in a professional team environment delivered to production using these tools.Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g., unit testing, design patterns, building maintainable code, performance)Familiarity with a range of database technologies, encompassing both SQL and NoSQL options.Usage and deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS services.Experience building, operating, and owning services. Implementing operational excellence mechanisms including alerting, metrics, and logging using Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, PagerDuty.DevOps experience (AWS preferred) architecting, configuring cloud technology stacks (Network Security, API Gateways, VPCs, CDNs, Kafka/MKS, Kubernetes, EKS, Jenkins configuration, CI/CD configurations etc.) is a plus.Ability to work with minimal instructions on day-to-day work, able to consume and self- start with general instructions on new assignments. Participates in an inclusive and supportive engineering culture.What We Offer:A Great Place to work.Equal opportunity employerFast track growth opportunities\xe2\x80\x8bHow We Get Things Done\xe2\x80\xa6This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.Championing Inclusion at WBD Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.If you\xe2\x80\x99re a qualified candidate and you require adjustments or accommodations to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.

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