Jr Quality Assurance Tester

Post Date

Jul 24, 2023

Location

New York,
New York

ZIP/Postal Code

10112
US
Jun 22, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract

Category

QA

Req #

NYC-639022

Pay Rate

$32 - $48 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

Insight Global is looking for a Quality Assurance tester to join the Production Application Engineering team at a leading Media and Entertainment client. As a member of this team, this individual will assist with quality assurance testing in Puppet, push new releases run on 2 week software sprints, and will ensure that all is running properly. This person will support a virtualized live production control room and TV control room hosted on the public cloud. This platform supports AWS, Video and Audio Mixing (dante), graphics playout (VizRT and Chyron/Ross), Evertz and Grass Valley products. This person will assist the team with engineering validation of new software releases to validate features while finding and addressing software bugs. The candidate will also identify gaps in existing documentation and work to resolve documents for use by technical operation. This is hosted on the public cloud so having virtualization or cloud experience with AWS or Azure is beneficial, and the team works mostly in a windows environment with some understanding of Linux. The ideal candidate will have a background in TV technology with a personal interest in engineering and problem solving. This candidate must have a problem-solving mentality and be hands on in assisting current initiatives.

Required Skills & Experience

- 2-5+ years experience as a QA tester -- strong configuration management experience

- Basic scripting experience -- computer science or IT related background preferred

- Experience with Software testing, validation testing, and test procedures - Manual automation

- A team player mentality with strong written and verbal communication

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

- Broadcast workflow experience

- Previous Media/ Broadcast experience

- Exposure to puppet

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.