QA Manager, Alexa Audio – Lead Test Automation

Amazon Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's Alexa Audio QA team seeks a Quality Assurance Manager to lead QA strategy and automation efforts. You will partner with Product Management, TPM, and Software Engineers to define the test approach, schedule, and quality metrics, while building a high-performing team to deliver world-class automation for feature testing and regression.

Your leadership will shape the QA roadmap across Alexa Audio releases.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of quality assurance engineering experience
• 5+ years of quality assurance teams management experience
• Experience managing manual testers
• Experience managing automation testers
• Experience testing web technologies and back-end services
• Experience identifying and reviewing test plans, test cases and testing results with a strong QA background
• Knowledge of software test techniques and strategy

Responsibilities

• Work with business and development teams to understand product vision and requirements
• Understand how all elements of the system software ecosystem work together and develop QA approaches that fit the overall strategy
• Responsible for development of test strategies and creation of appropriate test harnesses
• Overseeing the development and execution of test plans, monitoring and reporting on test execution and quality metrics
• Work with a team of quality engineering professionals to ensure the highest quality product delivery
• Coordinate with offshore Quality Service team and partner teams on test execution and sign-off
• The successful candidate is an experienced but hands‑on manager who can build an organization and ensure it performs

Skills

Quality assurance engineering

QA team leadership

Manual testing

Automation testing

Web technologies

Back-end services

Test plans & results review

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

QA projects & initiatives

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent

Tools

Test frameworks

Job description

Amazon's Alexa Audio QA team seeks a Quality Assurance Manager to lead QA strategy and automation efforts. You will partner with Product Management, TPM, and Software Engineers to define the test approach, schedule, and quality metrics, while building a high-performing team to deliver world-class automation for feature testing and regression.

Your leadership will shape the QA roadmap across Alexa Audio releases.