SW Visual Quality

The company is a London-based leader in software and intellectual property, pioneering innovations in data and media compression using artificial intelligence and parallel computing techniques. The organization has built a significant portfolio (with over a thousand patents) and is actively engaged in advancing compression technologies across several industries.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Enhance, expand, and maintain sophisticated in-house systems designed to test and evaluate media quality.
• Help plan new development tasks by breaking down project scopes, outlining requirements, and establishing test criteria.
• Track progress clearly, maintain documentation, and deliver consistent updates to internal stakeholders.
• Contribute to the selection of appropriate platforms and utilities for testing environments.
• Diagnose, analyze, and resolve issues found in testing frameworks.
• Execute comprehensive test campaigns across various scenarios to benchmark codec implementations.
• Review code contributions from other engineers within the test development team.
• Take part in agile meetings and planning sessions, ensuring continuous refinement and effective sprint execution.

What We’re Looking For:

• Expertise in Python, particularly building multithreaded applications with Flask, and experience in integrating with relational databases (SQL).
• Comfortable developing in Linux-based environments.
• Familiarity with modern APIs and protocols like REST, and JSON, as well as containerization tools such as Docker.
• Effective communicator, capable of producing technical documentation and sharing regular progress insights.
• Previous involvement in Agile projects, using tools such as Jira for workflow and issue tracking.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, version control systems (e.g., Git), automated testing at various levels (unit, integration, system).
• Experience with test libraries like Pytest or Google Test.
• Exposure to front-end stacks—HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js—is a plus.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools is advantageous.

Additional Skills That Would Be Beneficial:

• Experience using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) tools such as Cucumber or Spock.
• Background in cloud environments like AWS or distributed system infrastructure.
• General understanding of network protocols and architecture.
• Prior experience with media encoding/decoding and video quality assessment methodologies.
• Proficiency in data science or analytics.
• Familiarity with mobile automation frameworks on Android and iOS platforms.
• Hands-on experience with UI test automation using frameworks like Cypress and JavaScript/TypeScript.