Junior Software Developer jobs in United Kingdom

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s 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’s next…

From 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.

Warner Bros. has been entertaining audiences for more than 90 years through the world’s most-loved characters and franchises. Warner Bros. employs people all over the world in a wide variety of disciplines. We're always on the lookout for energetic, creative people to join our team.

Your New Role...

The Global QA team helps to span development, execution and reporting on various test activities as it relates to the Global Warner Bros. Discovery product. They will be responsible for technology, tools, and automation initiatives as it relates to QA activities, working with Frontend Client and Backend service teams spread across US / EMEA / APAC teams. The QA team works closely with the Quality engineering and framework team to consume the QA-aaS pipeline and drive improvements to QA automation activities as we scale our global platform.

Your Role Accountabilities...

• Scope and Complexity: You are able to create and execute test cases for more complex feature enhancements to validate user stories involving oneself or working with other engineers. You demonstrate ability to execute and build automated tests by contributing new code that builds on top of what other engineers have written. You are engaged with your team’s automated testing systems by analyzing test results and identifying areas for increased automated coverage. You execute and build automated tests using the existing tests built by more experienced test automation engineers.

• QA Fundamentals: You are responsible for making decisions about test coverage for new features and for determining when to sign off on a feature or release based on your team’s best-practices. You consider the team’s automation capabilities in your analysis. You understand the differences between unit, integration, and end-to-end or user journey tests.

• Execution: You have demonstrated the ability to utilize blackbox test methodology to execute test cases, document bugs. You engage with available tools (e.g. network monitoring tools, debug logs, performance dashboards, etc) for validating acceptance criteria and to provide more information to SDEs for debugging andtaoubleshooting purposes. You contribute to automated testing efforts.

• Operations: You provide documentation of new features and requirements from a testing perspective. You take ownership of regression testing and release testing coordination.

• Influence: You influence your team’s processes and testing methodologies through discussions with peers and your management. You are persuasive in influencing your peers in prioritization decisions by documenting the impact and severity of bugs and performance issues.

• Communication: You are an effective communicator as exemplified by your clear writeups of defects, your ability to work with developers and product managers to understand requirements, and your interactions with stakeholders and adjacent teams.

Qualifications and Experience...

• 6-9 years of experience, knowledge of various test activities including automation testing, regression testing, UI/ API testing, etc.

• Experience driving test design and implementation.

• Ability to writes high quality and stable automated test cases using existing frameworks.

• Understanding of test cases, test data, test runs, and test results management that provides feedback and visibility to qualify & quantify test coverage.

• Effective collaboration with development teams across multiple time zones and locations.

• Ability to reviews automated test run results, triage failures and verify results.

• Able to organize test case inventories that minimize the number of test cases while maximizing the amount of test coverage.

• Must Have Experience in Tools/Frameworks/Language:

• Coding language – JavaScript/Java.

• UI Automation - Selenium/Appium

• Mobile Automation - Appium or any other tool for Android/iOS.

• CI/CD - Jenkins/Github Actions

• Source Code Management - GitHub/SVN.

• Test case management - Jira/TestRail

Highly Desirable

• Good understanding of testing across different device types and operating systems such as Windows, OSX, iOS, tvOS, Android, Roku OS, Tizen and WebOS.

• Understanding of multiple test types including unit, functional, integration, end to end, security, performance, load, and UI tests.

• Ability to scout emerging industry trends such as AI testing and other best in class processes.

#Li-hybrid

Hybrid Working - This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.

How We Get Things Done…

This 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 www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/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 a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. 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.

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