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Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.

Job Summary

Responsible for assisting in the design of system architectures and solutions to bring to market new innovative products which span web service offerings. Assists in the planning, designing, integrating, testing, deploying and supporting of products. Helps with testing and operational activities. Has in-depth experience, knowledge and skills in own discipline. Usually determines own work priorities. Acts as resource for colleagues with less experience.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities:

• Participation in internal and external Design sessions and understanding overall project specific requirements and designs.
• Reviews and verifies requirements and design specifications for validity in overall product design, with an emphasis towards automation.
• Work on automation of the existing backlog automatable test cases as well as new feature automation. 
• Build ab-hoc scripts, tools for testing and verification purposes both for functional as well as performance/stress testing. 
• Guiding junior talent in terms of explaining the feature requirements with 
• respect to automation and resolving any technical difficulties the team may face
• Capable of providing high level LOEs for feature automation - Involvement in grooming and planning stories for the sprint
• Working with other QE engineers to drive automation and CI/CD tools and framework
• Perform syntax reviews of automation code.
• If required, capable of participating proactively in the testing and certification process
• Capable to work with Operations on production needs and help support the automated test runs
• Unblocking the team, when need be, thus enabling them to complete their tasks.
• Planning and forecasting of upcoming work items
• Produce documentation/metrics with goal of reducing test intervals and improving quality
• Provide On-call support on a rotation basis for debugging/support and release management
• Familiar with Agile/Scrum concepts
• Contributes to the development of Quality Engineering test philosophies and methodologies.
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service.

Skills & Experience:

• 4+ years of experience as an Automation Engineer
• Experience in testing GUI/Web Services/APIs is must.
• Experience in working with the Behave framework
• Experience with coding in Python 
• XML, JSON, Java, Perl, UNIX Scripting languages required
• Experience with using ELK Stack and Splunk
• Experience in Linux/Unix Administration - Be Well versed with Linux OS
• Experience in using test management tools - ALM Octane, Test Rail
• Experience in project management tools (i.e., Rally, JIRA, Confluence, etc.)
• In depth knowledge of Kubernetes, Dockerization and microservices
• Experience working in a CI/CD environment, Concourse is a plus
• Experience with using BI-Tools monitoring and analysis - like Prometheus, Grafana, Tableau
• Experience with Message broking services like RabbitMQ, Kafka, Kinesis
• Experience with Database like Cassandra, MySQL, PostgresDomain Specific Skills for vSG:
• Experience with using Wireshark, ability to analyze traces
• Has a strong understanding of the device modem architecture, CMTS and modem provisioning.
• Good understanding of SDN (software defined network),
• Knowledge of high-end servers –200 Gbps data transmission, traffic generators like ixia/T-rex
• Decent understanding of DHCP flow, TCP-UDP protocols, CPE-IPv4/6, Multicast, working knowledge of IS-IS
• Experience with cable industry standard practices, interfaces, operating systems, and protocols such as DOCSIS 3.0/3.1, SIP, and Packet Cable
• Prior extensive experience in IP Service (Ethernet, vLAN, Internet, and Managed Router)
• Experience of validating high-availability production-grade solutions in virtualized environments
• Any exposure to supporting Business KPI’s, network metrics & telemetry with performance analysis is a plus.
• Solid understanding of DDoS, Firewalls and Security event management.

About Our Perks & Benefits:

• We are determined to create an environment where our employees feel valued, understand our business goals, and are motivated. Here's a look at just some of the perks and benefits we make available to our US-based employees:
• Medical & Dental
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Generous paid time off
• Life Milestones - from adoption assistance, childcare resources, pet insurance, 
• and more, Comcast supports you at all life stages.
• Courtesy Services - We offer all of our full-time employees in serviceable areas 
• free digital TV and internet.
• Discount tickets for Universal Resorts, including theme park tickets and onsite 

We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality—to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.

Please visit the benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relative Work Experience

5-7 Years

Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.