Nielsen

Senior Member Technical Staff - Senior QA Engineer

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2 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own test strategy, planning, execution, and sign-off for features spanning manual and automated coverage.
  • Build and maintain scalable automation frameworks for UI, API, integration, and regression testing.
  • Validate end-to-end flows across mobile, TV/CTV, web, backend services, and data pipelines.
  • Verify data correctness across logs, APIs, databases, batch jobs, event streams, and downstream reports.
  • Design tests for large-volume, high-variability datasets and platform combinations.
  • Investigate production issues, reproduce complex defects, and drive root-cause analysis with engineering teams.
  • Validate streaming and data-donation flows, permissions, onboarding, telemetry, reward logic, and panel workflows.
  • Partner with engineering, product, design, data, and operations teams from requirements through release.
  • Improve CI/CD quality gates, regression coverage, release confidence, and defect-prevention practices.
  • Plan testing for new devices, OS upgrades, beta releases, and cross-platform compatibility.
  • Maintain test documentation, evidence, dashboards, and release-quality communications.
  • Mentor junior QA engineers or peers in test design, debugging, automation, and quality practices.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in software testing or quality engineering.
  • Strong hands-on test-automation experience with a solid foundation in manual exploratory and functional testing.
  • Experience testing some combination of Android, iOS, web, CTV/TV, and backend systems.
  • Strong understanding of API testing, service validation, and backend workflow testing.
  • Experience validating large datasets, event pipelines, reporting outputs, or analytics systems.
  • Strong SQL and data-validation skills, including comparing source and processed outputs.
  • Experience debugging with logs, network traces, device logs, browser tools, and backend evidence.
  • Strong understanding of test design, regression planning, edge-case identification, and defect lifecycle management.
  • Experience working in Agile teams with cross-functional collaboration.
  • Ability to independently own features, create clarity in ambiguous situations, and balance speed with quality.
  • Preferred experience in panel, measurement, attribution, or data-donation ecosystems.
  • Preferred experience with CTV platforms such as Android TV, Apple TV/tvOS, Fire TV, Roku, or similar.
  • Preferred experience testing OS transitions, device-specific behaviors, platform permission models, analytics instrumentation, event schemas, or certification-style validation workflows.

Tech Stack

iOSSQL

Categories

Nielsen

About Nielsen

10,000+ employees

Nielsen provides audience measurement and analytics that quantify who watches, listens, and buys across TV, digital, radio, and streaming. It sells ratings, cross-platform datasets, and advertising effectiveness tools to media owners, advertisers, and agencies on subscription and consulting agreements. Founded in 1923 and headquartered in New York, it operates in 55+ countries and is known for U.S. TV ratings.

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