Senior SDET / QA Engineer (Smart TV) at angel

<div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Angel is changing the future of American entertainment and is one of the fastest-growing Distributors in America. Our rapidly expanding library of light-amplifying stories has grown 10x in under 2 years. Gone is the old model where the deepest pockets pick the stories we share. Angel restores choice to our 1.5+ million guild members and growing who decide what we produce, what we take to theaters, and most importantly what parents bring to their homes. Check out </span><a href="[Upgrade to PRO to see link]" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0563c1;">angel.com/watch</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div> Opportunity Our engineering teams are revolutionizing what it means to be a part of inspirational entertainment. From building an army of voters weighing-in on short concept videos, expanding a membership-driven community with viewing perks both online and at the big screen, and innovating encoding tools that empower next-level parental guardrails, we’re bringing the world the next wave of entertainment powered directly by the people who want it. You’ll have the opportunity to take ownership in areas that are sure to shore-up our streaming quality and reliability. Our living room apps are central to how millions of fans experience Angel’s stories — and we need someone who insists on flawless performance across every device. We also have a broad vision for new quality engineering practices to take the Angel experience to new heights. This is a high-ownership, high-impact opportunity where you’ll add vision, strategy, and execution for how millions of fans discover, watch, and engage with Angel’s ever-growing library of stories without a single frustrating hiccup. Why Join Angel? • High-Growth Company: Angel is one of the fastest-growing media companies, with record-breaking independent theatrical releases and millions of streaming users worldwide. • Massive Impact: Your work will shape how audiences experience the stories they love—and help amplify light around the globe. • Extreme Ownership: We are a team of owners and entrepreneurs. This is your chance to operate like a startup founder inside a fast-scaling media company. • Mission-Driven Culture: We strive to amplify light in everything we do. Join a team that deeply cares about the impact of the stories we tell. • Future of Streaming: Help build a streaming platform that competes with giants—without playing by their rules. What You'll Do Own quality across the TV experience—from framework to flawless release. As the Senior SDET on our TV Apps team, you’ll be the champion of quality and automation for Angel’s living room streaming applications. You’ll design and build the test infrastructure that makes shipping to Roku, AndroidTV/FireTV, AppleTV, and other platforms feel like turning on a light. You’ll move fast, raise the bar, and make quality everyone’s competitive advantage. You will: • Own test automation end-to-end — architect, build, and maintain robust, scalable automated test frameworks purpose-built for Smart TV and connected device ecosystems. • Build platform-specific quality strategies — design test approaches covering UI/UX, video playback, and performance testing across Roku, AndroidTV, tvOS, Tizen, WebOS, and beyond. • Embed quality into CI/CD — integrate automated test suites into continuous integration pipelines to enable rapid, reliable release cycles with confidence. • Hunt down the hardest bugs — investigate, reproduce, and report complex defects, working closely with engineers to isolate root causes in platform-specific codebases. • Tame resource-constrained devices — identify memory leaks, CPU bottlenecks, and video streaming degradation on low-power living room devices that others give up on. • Measure what matters — define, instrument, and track metrics for streaming performance, app health, and user experience, and coach the team on using data to guide quality decisions. • Multiply the team’s speed and confidence — provide expert QA guidance, perform thoughtful test and app reviews, and actively coach and accelerate other engineers. • Partner deeply across disciplines — work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to build quality in from concept to launch and beyond. • Lead through influence — share knowledge in brownbags, workshops, hackathons, and cross-team forums to raise the quality bar across the organization. • Strengthen our foundation — contribute to technical documentation and test plans that scale knowledge across Product and Engineering. This role is for someone who believes quality is a feature, thrives in constrained environments, and wants to leave a lasting mark on how millions experience streaming on Smart TVs. What Success Looks Like • Releases ship on time and with confidence — automated coverage gives the team the freedom to move fast without breaking things. • Device-specific bugs get caught before customers find them, even on the oldest, slowest hardware. • Your frameworks are so reliable and well-documented that other engineers build on top of them without hesitation. • The CI/CD pipeline is a quality gate everyone trusts — not a bottleneck they try to skip. • Your impact on quality culture is visible: engineers ship more confidently, and regressions are caught earlier every sprint. What You'll Need • A builder’s mindset with a bias for quality — excited to push the boundaries of automated testing and modernize how world-class streaming experiences are validated. • Deep technical judgment — a passion for thoughtful framework design and architectural planning that produces test suites that are resilient, maintainable, and built to last. • A developer-experience multiplier — motivated to level up how the team ships by improving tooling, test coverage, CI/CD workflows, and overall code and quality health. • Comfort operating at high velocity — able to deliver quality work in fast-moving environments with evolving requirements, without losing attention to detail. • Strong ownership and initiative — you spot gaps in coverage, define a plan, and execute end-to-end with urgency and accountability. • Expert collaborator and communicator — able to clearly articulate test strategies, present tradeoffs, and partner effectively across engineering, product, and design. • Relentless attention to detail — you notice what others miss and care deeply about correctness, performance, and polish. • Highly organized and adaptable — able to manage multiple priorities, navigate ambiguity, and adjust quickly as conditions change. • Resourceful problem solver — comfortable tackling open-ended quality challenges and finding pragmatic solutions when the path isn’t obvious. • Growth-oriented and feedback-driven — you proactively seek, give, and act on meaningful feedback with positive intent, consistently turning it into better outcomes for yourself, your peers, and the team. • Always learning — quick to pick up new tools, platforms, and testing paradigms, and eager to apply them effectively and teach them to others. • An owner and leader — you execute with high energy, share context freely, insist on candor, and raise the bar for everyone around you. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions. Required Experience • 5+ years of experience in test automation engineering • Hands-on experience testing and automating on living room / Smart TV platforms (Roku, AndroidTV/FireTV, AppleTV, Tizen, WebOS, or similar) • Experience with automation tools and frameworks such as Appium, Selenium, or proprietary TV SDKs and debugging tools • Experience integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines • Experience with performance and memory profiling on resource-constrained devices • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience Preferred Experience • Deep familiarity with the Roku platform (BrightScript/SceneGraph) — highly preferred • Experience with cloud testing platforms such as LambdaTest, Kobiton, Perfecto, or Rainforest QA • Experience in video streaming, OTT, or media application testing • Experience with HLS.js and video playback validation • Familiarity with monorepo structures and modern CI tooling Work Environment Remote team members must have a private and quiet area for working hours in their location. When in the main office, expect a comfortable, air-conditioned work environment. Team members are issued their own desks, but the office is an open, shared space and can be fast-paced and occasionally noisy. Physical Demands Will need to be able to sit or stand at a desk for extended periods of time. Position Type and Expected Hours of Work Regular full-time, 40 hours per week. Travel Required 2–4 onsite events in Utah each year. There may be other opportunities to travel, but no other significant out-of-state travel is anticipated. Work Authorization Must be authorized to work in the United States. EEO Statement At Angel Studios, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. Other Duties Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the team member for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.