VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant’s sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Versant’s Software Engineering team provides core services to our business, underpinning our strategy and execution of linear & digital distribution of content, platforms, and data. As a leader of our engineering quality assurance team, you will have a direct role in defining our roadmap towards our future vision in the media landscape. 

The SDET role is a test engineering team member responsible for the implementation of testing behaviors and release management of VERSANT’s core platform ecosystem across data management, scheduling platforms, linear & digital distribution, and AI enriched automations and workflows. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Quality Assurance & Test Automation 

• Define and implement standards for test execution across service stack in critical business applications supporting public facing sites & apps, internal tools, and backend services. 

• Collaborate closely with Product Management to align on task acceptance criteria, and maintain feature level tests as well as broader regression suites. 

• Implement testing patterns for use in test automation flows, and manage gating & CI/CD procedures for test approvals as part of broader release strategies. 

• Contribute to automation frameworks and tooling, encompassing both UI and API related testing capabilities. 

• Implement smoke testing, regression testing, and broader testing harness capabilities for internal data services & backend API resources. 

• Provide feedback to product owners and engineering resources to improve testing behaviors, elaborate on acceptance criteria, and ensure collaboration across team capabilities to enable continuous release processes. 

• 3+ years of experience in Quality Assurance in digital platforms, with experience in Media & Software a plus 

• Proven track record in software testing & automation, with technical experience and understanding of CI/CD processes and workflows. 

• Experience collaborating in fast-paced, agile environments with a focus on communication & collaboration. 

• Strong knowledge of test automation frameworks, such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, etc. 

• Understanding of software development lifecycle in cloud environments with a focus on enterprise application support. 

• Strong communication & collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams. 

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

For LA County and City Residents Only: VERSANT Media will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].

VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.

VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.