Charter Communications

Having 13+ Years of diversified experience as a Video Test Engineer/STB/Mobile Application Tester and QA Network Engineer and Video Network Engineer. Analyzing, designing, testing of windows, web, and mobile-based applications. Has extensive experience in Full - cycle Testing. Expertise in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Regression testing, ad-hoc testing, GUI Testing, Integration Testing, Conversion Testing, Cyclone Testing, Production Validation Testing, System Testing, Installation Testing, Compatibility testing and End-To-End testing. Experience in Validating STB and Mobile apps Functionality like Search, Guide EPG data on Cloud Guide and Mini Guide, VOD, My Library, TV Shows, Movies, DVR, PPV (Pay per View), Closed Captions, Settings & Support.

Roll your clocks back for this one. You'll be working in waterfall for each feature disguised as "releases" instead of sprints. No practical dev environment. Single point code review. No pairing. No relevant documentation. No test coverage other than the QA team physically testing the app. Team reviews are rubber stamps. Expect a minimum effort job due to poor time management and limited task delegation from management, but you'll get the bottom of the barrel tasks as the more senior team cherry picks the easy tasks for themselves. If you don't care about what you do, whether you get credit for it, or whether your code is anything above barely functional, this is the job for you. Someone who wants something low effort that they can phone in because they are cheesing the system will thrive here.

I started with Charter now Spectrum right after they came out of Ch 11, the general reputation of Charter and their network in the area were not the greatest. I worked with a great install team lead by Director Tim Lindsay and VP Gail Kodama and we changed things around. I displaced 20 different companies in the Gilroy, Morgan Hill area. Morgan Hill has a history of Outages, their Internet comes from San Jose. The city of internet has been completely down several times in the last few years. Charter Fiber completely changed that, call Sakata Seed, Anritsu, Gilroy USD, Morgan Hill USD, the list goes on and on. It's was a completely Team Effort

They don't think treat their contractors very well. You are not always part of the team. You are a contractor and known as such. People make comments that are not true. Management does not have your back.

Everything is nice. Learned lot of things. I got friends over there. Experienced new things. Worked on tools like.... Front-end: React, API, Restful API, Redux, HTML, CSS, JSON, Nodejs, jQuery, AJAX. Back-end: Spring boot Web-services: SOAP, RESTful Database: MongoDB, MySQL Building tool: Jenkins CI/CD, git, Kubernetes, and Docker Cloud: AWS EC2 Messaging tool: Kafka Bug fixer: Jira

Every this is good. Very good office atmosphere. Good learning. Good workshops. Good training.

The company is great. You recieve alot of support every step of the way in training and afterwards. Awesome benefits package. The downside is there is no work life balance. You are assigned a schedule until you can bid for another one. There is the verbal harassment from customers, which the company can not control but you have to have tough skin to deal with it.

Great job if you enjoy helping people, very resourceful, and good at multitasking while handling high volume of calls.

Working at this company did not give me as much growth as I would like and they were prejudice and I would never work for them again

Supplied company vehicle, great benefits and discount prices on products.I like working without much supervision. Most of all safety was always first.

Wonderful company that offers part and full time opportunities. Free services to employees and great pay with incentives and benefits.