Sr Engineer - Software QE

35 YEARS AND GROWING

Smarter Technology. Extraordinary Experiences.

Xperi invents, develops and delivers technologies that enable extraordinary experiences. We make entertainment more entertaining, and smart devices smarter.

From the home to the car to everywhere in between, managing content and connections in a way that is smart, immersive, and personal is precisely what Xperi’s technologies do.

Our inventions are foundational to the global entertainment ecosystem and our products and data improve every aspect of the digital entertainment experience, from choice to consumption.

Content markets are changing, fast. Consumers face a simultaneously expanding and fragmenting set of choices. Xperi technology cuts through the chaos, putting us at the forefront of fast-moving trends in streaming, digital entertainment, and AI applications – in any environment.

Xperi is at the heart of extraordinary experiences.

We can’t wait to show you what’s next.

Experience required 8+ years.
Duties: Debug software products using systematic tests to develop, apply, and maintain quality standards for TiVo products. Develop, modify, and execute software test plans, analyze and write test standards and procedures, maintain documentation of test results to assist in debugging and modification of software, and analyze test results to ensure existing functionality and recommends corrective action. Collaborate with development engineers to resolve problems and provide feedback in preparation of technical appraisals of programming languages, systems, and computation software. Ensure quality computer integration into the overall functions of scientific computation, data acquisition, and processing. Specifically, test interactive TV application functionalities such as grid listings, parental controls, movie locks, channel locks, TV locks, encrypted channels, unencrypted channels, EAS, subtitles, and hidden channels, 3rd Party Applications and TiVo Software Interactions and Stability across multiple 3rd party hardware platforms.

Education Required: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Information Systems, Computer Applications or related field

Experience Required: 3 years of experience as a Software Engineer, Field Applications Engineer or in a related occupation

Special

Requirements: Must have at least 1 year of prior work experience in each of the following:

• Testing interactive television guide applications on listings, parental movie/TV locks, encrypted channels, EAS, and hidden channels.
• Troubleshooting and integration testing of loading set top box engineering images, middleware and firmware using embedded Linux.
• Using Java, Groovy, Python, Ruby, and bash for testing applications on automated test tools utilizing DSG, DOCSIS, and ALOHA systems.
• Tracking defects found during testing using Defect Tracking Tools such as JIRA, V1 and HPQC.
• Accessing UNIX and Linux based servers to execute RPM upgrades and view logs for errors and anomalies using SSH clients such as SecureCRT, Putty, and Cygwin.
• Experience with FTP clients such as FileZilla, WinScp and SmartFTP to extract and place files on various servers running Windows, UNIX or Linux based operating systems.
• Viewing and troubleshooting database table issues during testing using database access tools such as Microsoft SQL server management, Squirrel and Sequel Pro.
• Creating and running queries against json document databases such as MongoDB using tools such as Robo 3T and Studio 3T.
• Software debugging tools such as Tera Term and HTTP header check tool to capture logging from various servers and cable set top boxes.
• Experience with network sniffing tools, such as Wireshark, to troubleshoot issues with data packets passed between set top boxes and LINUX servers.
• Experience creating test cases with SoapUI to test REST and SOAP APIs.

12 Using automated testing tools, TestComplete, to test web-based user interfaces

• Knowledge of Arris, Axiom, Adrenalin, and Errickson VOD systems to maintain current assets files, the ability to create and ingest new assets, deciphering error codes, create new accounts, and deploy system changes to set top boxes.