Director of QA/QE Crunchyroll, Inc.
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

San Francisco

Crunchyroll

Crunchyroll is the world's most popular anime brand. We're an international business focused on creating both online and offline experiences for anime fans, through content (licensed, co-produced, and originals), merchandise, events, gaming, news, and more.

About the Team

Our Quality Assurance and Quality Engineering teams champion Ellation's goal of delivering high-quality video and rich content to our users on multiple platforms. In addition to devising testing strategies and evaluating feature quality, our quality engineers take part in feature planning and design reviews, to contribute their ideas and to ensure testability.

Location: San Francisco

Our headquarters is located in downtown San Francisco, where our group of cross-functional experts assemble to create experiences for Crunchyroll and VRV's passionate communities.

About You:

* Advanced knowledge of software QA engineering processes, test automation, build and testing frameworks, and continuous integration pipelines for SaaS platforms and mobile applications.
* Experience executing load and performance testing; ability to find application weaknesses.
* Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, debugging and documentation skills.
* Proactive and energetic individual who has an excellent ability to communicate, collaborate, and coordinate projects within a Scrum development process.
* 6 to 8 years of progressively related experience in software development and/or quality engineering.
* 5+ years managing software development and/or QE teams.
* Bachelor of Science/Masters of Science in a technical discipline or equivalent experience.
* Direct experience implementing Agile methodologies for process management.
* Project management experience in an engineering discipline.
* Demonstrated flexibility with respect to business process implementation or management.
* Strong communication skills and experience working with highly technical management teams.

A day in the life of our Director of QA/QE:

* Facilitate quality assurance testing for large-scale OTT platform, supporting services, tools, and client devices.
* Manage large scale projects while coordinating with offshore QA/QE, PMO, product and development teams.
* Serve as a leader and mentor for developers and QA/QE team to improve process, efficiency, and quality.
* Support and optimize continuous integration and production deployment processes.
* Support and inform release cadence.
* Work closely with teams to create test plans for upcoming features, develop automated test cases, and achieve a high level of code coverage.
* Identify opportunities for improved software development lifecycle as a champion for quality across the organization.
* Perform and oversee final checks for releases to production; validate and sign off on complex test plans.
* Create documentation of processes, systems, and framework architectures.
* Break applications in ways the developers never thought about.

Benefits and Perks: San Francisco Office

* Competitive salary
* Medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
* Health care and dependent care FSA
* 401(k) plan with employer match
* Employer paid commuter benefit
* On-site gym, showers, yoga, and wellness classes
* Support program for new parents
* Catered lunch 4 days per week
* Fun, passionate and skilled co-workers
* Pet friendly - pet insurance and dog friendly office

Ellation

What's with the name, Ellation? We're all a cast of characters that get passion and strive to celebrate fandom in all its forms. So we're building a collection of destinations (a constellation, if you will) that connect people with their passions. Each day, we work to achieve complete fan elation (our vision), starting with popular subscription-video-on-demand brands, Crunchyroll, Rooster Teeth, and VRV. Our team spans across San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Chișinău, and Tokyo to develop the product, design, engineering, marketing, and content that brings our communities of fans together.

Crunchyroll

Crunchyroll is the world's most popular anime brand. We're an international business focused on creating both online and offline experiences for anime fans, through content (licensed, co-produced, and originals), merchandise, events, gaming, news, and more.

Rooster Teeth

Rooster Teeth is the entertainment company for gamers. A pioneer in digital entertainment, we've spent 16 years fostering a passionate worldwide community around original western-style anime, animation, podcasts, gaming personalities, and comedy content. Rooster Teeth's diversified business encompasses subscription video, live events, merchandise, brand integrations, licensed studio productions, game development, and more.

VRV

VRV is a collection of fandom brands on a unified platform and includes Crunchyroll, Rooster Teeth, Viacom's NickSplat, and more. Our community connects through immersive content experiences in a digitally-driven environment via bundled subscription, a la carte subscription, or ad-supported options.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Ellation. Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.