The RoleWe are hiring a QA Manager to lead quality assurance for our streaming platform across connected TV, mobile, and web. With apps spanning roughly nine device families and a free, ad-supported business model, the cost of regressions is high and the testing surface is unusually broad. You will own QA strategy end-to-end: test planning, automation roadmap, release gating, ad-quality testing for both client- and server-side ad insertion, and the privacy regression discipline required by modern consent and data-handling regulations.
You will manage a small but growing QA team and partner closely with engineering leadership to establish quality as a first-class engineering concern, not an afterthought.
What You Will Do- Define and own the QA strategy for the Local Now platform across iOS, Android, smart TV, streaming devices, and web.
- Build out a test automation roadmap that scales across many platforms with a lean team - including device-lab strategy, CI integration, and tooling decisions.
- Establish release gating, regression coverage, and acceptance criteria in partnership with engineering and product.
- Lead QA for video playback (live and VOD), client-side and server-side ad insertion, ad pod logic, and quality-of-experience metrics.
- Drive privacy and consent regression testing as a recurring discipline - not a one-time launch task.
- Manage, mentor, and grow the QA team; recruit and onboard additional QA engineers as the organization scales.
- Partner with DevOps and observability functions to ensure that issues found in production feed back into test coverage.
- Report on quality KPIs, escape rates, and release health to executive leadership.
What We Are Looking For- 5+ years of QA experience, including 2+ years managing or leading QA engineers.
- Demonstrated experience owning QA for a multi-platform consumer product - ideally streaming, media, or another high-volume B2C application.
- Hands-on background with test automation frameworks (e.g., Appium, XCUITest, Espresso, Playwright/WebDriver) and CI-integrated test pipelines.
- Strong understanding of streaming video QA: playback behavior, ad insertion, DRM, and quality-of-experience signals.
- Experience establishing release processes, quality gates, and bug-triage practices in a fast-moving engineering organization.
- Ability to balance manual and automated testing pragmatically, especially across device platforms where automation is uneven.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills - comfortable presenting quality posture to executive stakeholders.
Nice to Have- Experience with FAST, AVOD, or other ad-supported streaming services.
- Familiarity with consent management, DSAR workflows, or privacy regulation testing (CCPA, GDPR).
- Experience with QA tooling for connected TV platforms specifically (Roku, Fire TV, Tizen, Vizio, X1).
- Background bringing AI-assisted testing or developer-productivity tooling into a QA practice.
