Lead Software Engineer (Java) in Test

About this role

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Job Title: Lead Software Engineer in Test

Team: Global Quality Engineering

Location: New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco

Overview

Paramount Skydance Corp. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Test to design, architect, and deliver high-quality, scalable, and reliable 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.

Key Responsibilities

Automation Framework Architecture

• 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 fra...