Quality Assurance Manager

Job description

DESCRIPTION

The Amazon Devices team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics, including the best-selling Kindle family of products. We have also produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Dash, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

Along with leading in web services and e-commerce, Amazon.com is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics including our best-selling e-readers and tablets, and Fire TV.

Fire TV client software and services technologies are enjoyed by millions of customers the world over. You will drive key engineering and business decisions that impact Amazon’s long-term vision, including innovation in the delivery and consumption of media and entertainment. We leverage cutting edge technology in client-app frameworks, big data, machine learning, optimization techniques and high availability services. Here on the Fire TV team, we are dedicated to creating the most engaging entertainment platform for the whole family, worldwide.

The successful Quality Assurance Manager will be obsessed with quality improvement, experienced and highly committed to creating world class automation for regression and feature testing, able to develop and drive a high-level test strategy, as well as take a hands-on approach to implementing that strategy. In this role, you will:
· Work with business and development teams to understand product vision and requirements
· Understanding how all elements of the system software ecosystem work together and developing QA approaches that fit the overall strategy
· Be responsible for development of test strategies and creation of appropriate test harnesses
· Oversee the development and execution of test plans and monitoring and reporting on test execution
· Work with a team of quality engineering professionals to ensure the highest quality product delivery

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Strong people management skills, with a proven ability to hire and grow talented programmatic and user-level personnel
· Experience working closely with development and business teams to communicate problem impacts and to understand business requirements
· Strong organizational skills, ability to track multiple test executions simultaneously and to be able to synthesize the results
· Experience in agile development methodologies with continuous integration
· Experience validating high quality consumer facing applications on embedded communications platforms
· Experience with systems automating client / server testing with a heterogeneous mix of client applications and embedded devices is required
· Shows creativity and initiative to improve product test coverage and effectiveness
· Comfortable communicating cross-functionally and across management levels in formal and informal settings

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 3+ years of experience managing Quality Assurance Teams
· 1+ year of experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
· Experience managing automation testers
· Experience managing manual testers
· Experience in manual testing
· Experience in automation testing
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of technical education and experience
· 7+ years of industry experience, including at least three years of hands-on testing and 2 years as a manager
· Experience in consumer electronics product, distributed systems design and testing required
· Knowledge of QA concepts and methodology