Digital Quality Control Technician

About the Company:

On a mission to give people limitless access to the vast world of Entertainment, Cineverse’s advanced, proprietary technology drives the distribution of over 70,000 premium films, series, and podcasts. From providing a complete streaming solution to some of the world’s most recognizable brands to super-serving our network of fan channels – from direct ad sales partnerships to premium global content – we offer more of the stories that move us and technology that moves us forward. Industry leaders with a history of innovation, Cineverse is powering the future of Entertainment.

Job Title: Digital Quality Control Technician

Position Summary:

Cineverse is looking for a skilled Quality Control technician based out of Kolkata, India who is deadline-oriented, team player who is a self-starter exhibiting strong follow-up and multi-tasking skills to support content and technical operations efforts for teams in both the US and India. You have a strong desire to be part of a best-in-breed distribution company with a penchant for film and tech. You have a natural eye for quality and be able to spot problems at a glance, both at the qualitative and technical level. Your work will support the successful distribution of content across FAST OTT distribution platforms. 

Responsibilities/Duties:

• Perform QC evaluation on digital deliverables for technical acceptability against spec guides.
• Encode/Transcode assets based on distribution platform requirements.
• Manage the export and vetting of licensor-supplied metadata.
• Manage incoming libraries of content by categorizing and backing up files to AWS cloud storage.
• Vet QC reports in our proprietary digital supply chain software and ensures assets complete in the ingest log.
• Fix titles that error on distribution platforms and ensure fixed files are ingested into proprietary software for re-delivery
• Administrative duties including but not limited to, coordinating weekly technical calls, generating weekly reports, logging QC evaluation in project management software.
• QC captions such as SRT, SCC & resolve issues with the caption and/or subtitle files to adhere to established standards and practices guidelines.

Specific Knowledge Abilities and Skills:

• 1-3 years prior experience in quality control, transcoding, packaging, and delivery of digital assets or performing similar duties preferred.
• Hands on experience in conformance edits on raw video footage to ensure compliance with established guidelines and standards is preferred
• Experience with Adobe CC Suite (Photoshop, After Effects, Media Encoder, Premiere, Illustrator), CapMate & Mac OS is required.
• Ability to autonomously make frequent "subjective" decisions to determine the "severity rating" for quality defects, determining which defects are acceptable or rejectable.
• Experience or a basic familiarity with Aspera and FTP/SFTP delivery systems preferred.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite.
• General knowledge of SMPTE Standards for digital distribution.
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience with Monday.com or similar project management software.
• Excellent organizational and prioritizations skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple deadlines.
• Excellent verbal, written, and research skills to effectively communicate internally as well as with external partners.
• Prior experience working with US clients is preferred.
• Flexible with overlapping US timing is preferred.