Quality Assurance Engineer, Alexa Devices

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company seeks a Quality Assurance Engineer to ensure high-quality features for Alexa devices. The role involves crafting and executing test plans, executing tests, and presenting improvements for the QA process, all while working with cross-functional teams. This is a great opportunity for seasoned QA professionals to impact software quality significantly.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of quality assurance engineering experience.
• Experience in automation testing and developing test plans.
• Good knowledge of core software testing techniques.

Responsibilities

• Authoring and executing test plans and test cases.
• Reporting and verifying defects, signing-off on features.
• Executing both functional and performance tests.

Skills

Test Automation

Problem Solving

Communication

Collaboration

Analytical Skills

Job description

Quality Assurance Engineer, Alexa Devices

ASF Org. is responsible for delivering the speech middleware stack across multiple Alexa devices.

- As a QAE on the ASF QA team, you will champion the quality of our features in our development pipeline using both automated and manual tests, reporting and verifying defects, and signing-off on features and release candidates
- You will own authoring and the execution of test plans and test cases.
- You will have a significant impact in the quality and delivery speed of our software, our business, and most importantly our customers.
- You will work closely with developers, product managers, and other QA in order to ensure the features we deliver to our customers have a high level of quality.
- In addition, you will also have the opportunity to propose improvements to our existing processes and automated tools in order to improve the team’s speed, quality and efficiency.
- The candidate will have good hands-on experience in test automation and testing, with good knowledge of the core software testing techniques and have good communication, collaboration, analytical, and problem solving skills.

Key job responsibilities
- Preparing Test Plan & Test Strategy for the QA Org.
- Write test plans & test cases
- Execute both functional & Perf. tests
- Automate tests by leveraging existing automation - frameworks and making enhancements in existing frameworks
- Add automated tests to the pipelines to have a scalable DevOps model with minimum developer friction

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 4+ years of quality assurance engineering experience
- Experience in automation testing
- Experience developing high quality test plans, test designs, test strategies, and test execution
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience working closely with development and business teams to communicate problem impacts and to understand business requirements
- Experience as QA lead on medium to large sized projects

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