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We are looking to hire a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, responsible for the quality of Alexa device software.
We are looking for a passionate, experienced QA Engineer to join our team and help us reimagine how to drive quality, testing, and efficiency through our product lifecycle. You are expected to have industry-leading technical abilities that enable you to significantly improve product quality, and a deep curiosity to dive into new technologies. The test plans and automated tests you build should expose defects from component and feature integration level to end-to-end customer interactions. We want a QA engineer excited to work across software, hardware, cloud, algorithms, and computer vision, helping us to deliver exciting new lovable products to market. Our ideal candidate: Enjoys working side by side with partners, colleagues and teams on complex problems Is highly effective and thrives in a dynamic environment with multiple, changing priorities Passionate for QA and test automation Is comfortable with proactive outward communication and technical leadership Never shies away from a challenge What will you do: As part of our world-class Quality organization, you ll work closely with product and engineering teams to create test strategies and drive initiatives that ultimately ensure our customers get what they want, when they want. You ll understand the big picture of how our features and products interact as you navigate through complex designs and code. You will work with development engineers to ensure soundness of design, testability of their code, and determine the best testing and automation approaches. You will contribute to automation frameworks and automate test cases both at the API and UI levels, using Java and other languages. You ll be responsible for driving the software development process toward quality-centric methodologies. Demonstrated track record of delivering test automation, quality requirements, designing functional and performance test suites and producing deliverables that exceed commitments. Responsible for the architecture of test automation solutions, discovering current limitations and compatibilities between subsystems, the selection of new concepts and methodology, and the development of major routines and utilities. Generation of metrics and information that improve development practices on the team. Review and critique of technical requirements and software design specifications and software implementation. Instilling best practices for test suite automation and frameworks and documentation, making sure designs meet requirements, and delivering high quality software on tight schedules. 6+ years of quality assurance engineering experience Experience in manual testing Experience in automation testing Experience scripting or coding Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field 6+ years of delivering test frameworks, test tools, leading the QA projects and initiatives experience 4+ years of non-internship professional software development testing experience Experience in scripting for automation (e.g. Python) and advanced SQL skills. Experience developing high quality test plans, test designs, test strategies, and test execution Knowledge of at least one programming language such as Java, C#, JavaScript, Python, Ruby or Perl Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence Experience shipping innovative, successful consumer products Experience programmatically testing products, measuring test coverage, developing the best automation, driving testability and diagnostic Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++ Experience with open source tools and resources Experience working closely with development and business teams.
