About the Company
Focused on the future of filmmaking, Wonder Dynamics' mission is to revolutionize the production and post-production process by leveraging state-of-the-art AI. They are striving to democratize the use of visual effects which will pave the way for the next generation of filmmakers. That mission attracted some of the most influential individuals in the film and tech industry that are now involved in their team.
Wonder Dynamics is backed by Epic Games, Samsung, Horizons Ventures (a Hong Kong VC firm with early investments in Skype, Siri, Facebook and more) and Founders Fund, a leading Silicon Valley VC that funded some giants like Space X, Facebook, Spotify, DeepMind, etc.
Their Advisory Board consists of leaders in Hollywood and Silicon Valley:
- Joshua Baer, founder/CEO of Capital Factory;
- Terry Dougas, Producer and financier of Film and TV. Founder of Rhea Films,1821 Media
- Angjoo Kanazawa, assistant professor at UC Berkeley and Google research scientist;
- Joe Russo Director, screenwriter, and Producer (directed Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame)
- Robert Schwab - Private equity investor, President, and CEO of R&L Properties.
- Steven Spielberg - Film director, producer, and screenwriter
- Antonio Torralba - Professor and Head of AI and Decision making, EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
- Gregory Trattner - President, Film Finances Inc. (World leader in completion guarantees and film services)
About the Position
As a senior QA engineer, you will play a key role in the development of our web platform ensuring that the product meets the design criteria and functional requirements for our users. You will organize, plan and implement variety of QA initiatives to ensure the overall success and functionality of our global, content creation platform.
This position will suit someone with proven independent QA experience. An interest in creative technology (video, photography, etc.) would be great to see, but it's definitely not a requirement! We want people who are quick learners and keen to pick up new things. At the intersection of film and technology, this job will offer a very unique experience, and you will be exposed to a diverse set of fields spanning from film production and visual effects to AI, machine learning, and computer vision.
If you join Wonder Dynamics, you will be one of the first members of the QA team and will work closely with the software and ML teams. As an early member of this team, there is also a chance to grow into a lead for the entire QA department as we scale.
Key responsibilities
- Partner with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to discuss and define requirements and acceptance criteria
- Create and document testing strategies for features and regression
- Perform hands-on testing across our content creation platform and ML pipelines
- Work with teams to help evolve software delivery processes
- Clearly document, report, and present test results to stakeholders and software team members
What we are looking for
- 5+ years of experience in a manual software QA / testing role (independent)
- Solid knowledge of software development lifecycle, testing methodologies, QA terminology and processes.
- Experience in test automation tools, like Selenium, SoapUI, and/or similar
- Knowledge/understanding of C# or some other Object Oriented Programming language
- Knowledge/understanding of relational database like MySQL or some other relational database
- Knowledge/understanding of document based database like MongoDB or similar
- Knowledge/understanding of WebSockets and related testing
- Knowledge/understanding or REST API best practices and testing principles/tools
- Understanding of CI/CD tools and practices
- Understanding of containerized and scalable systems testing
- Experience with testing specialties such as Unit, Integration, Regression, Smoke, Functional, Exploratory, Monkey, Performance, and System
- Experience in creating test plans, test scenarios and test cases in a complex product environment
Nice to have
- Experience with testing video streaming
- Experience testing a video editing tool similar to adobe premiere, iMovie, etc.
- Experience testing ML pipelines
Why should you consider joining us?
At the intersection of film and technology, this job will offer a very unique experience, and you will be exposed to a diverse set of fields spanning from film production and visual effects to AI, machine learning, and computer vision. Because we are operating in the state-of-the-art territory, there will always be something new to learn on the horizon. We highly value our team and the support of our co-workers and strive to create the best environment to work in.
We offer a competitive salary, valuable stock options, and comprehensive benefits that allow individual flexibility for all employees to choose what makes the most sense for their personal situation.
Wonder Dynamics is committed to a culture of flexibility, diversity, and fun for all of our employees. We are working on some of the most challenging technical problems and we know the solutions will come from all of us working together in an inclusive, transparent, and open manner.
Flexible work options: Remote, in-office & hybrid options available...