Summary
Company Overview
Lodestone is a trusted partner and acts as a digital steward for products used by half the world’s population on a daily basis – we’re honored to be tasked with this immense responsibility. We are looking for an exceptional Audio QA Test Engineer with a passion for sound testing to help drive high quality releases for some of the world’s most loved and widely used social media products. You will be part of a small, high performance team and will have the opportunity to excel and grow your career delivering great quality product at a fast pace. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, and QA teams to drive testability and ensure quality of the releases.
This role is for senior testers in Menlo Park, CA.
Duties
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- Support Sound Design and partner teams in the evaluation and validation of complex audio systems in mobile, desktop, and first party hardware environments.
- Collaborate with design on new audio feature evaluation and associated test plan development
- Investigate, triage, escalate, and follow up on issues reported
- Assist in evaluating test coverage and plan improvements, including performing plan stress-testing prior to deployment
- Assist with team test asset management and unblocking critical permissions
- Establish and maintain sound testing technical best practices
Skills
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- 3+ years of experience in audio implementation, testing, or technical design
- History supporting the needs of complex audio systems and production pipelines
- Strong understanding of audio signal flow, DSP and audio synthesis, and digital audio concepts and formats
- Proficiency in sound design methods and best practices
- Familiarity with one or more scripting languages (Bash, JavaScript, Python, etc.)
- Strong communication skills, written and verbal
Preferred Skills
- Product experience with audio hardware and/or software
- Experience with sound tools and/or Implementation of AR/VR audio design across first party and third party engines (Unity, WWise, Spark AR, or Audio middleware)
- Familiarity with Android layer scripts and source code control systems
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