Job Description

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field
• 7+ years of experience in software development and testing in Java, C++ or C#
• Knowledge of Python or other scripting languages
• Experience with Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis
• Experience building and designing test cases including knowledge of test methodologies
• Experience with testing methodologies (Unit, Scrum)

Job summary
The Alexa Smart Home team is focused on making Alexa the user interface for the home. We're seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to help develop test automation infrastructure and strategy. This individual will be setting up processes for improving the quality, diversity, and customer experience of smart home devices. The ideal teammate enjoys Alexa and has a successful track record of delivering the highest quality smart products. A commitment to teamwork, knowledge of IoT systems and device firmware, strong CS fundamentals, experience with on-device test practices, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners), are absolute requirements.

Key job responsibilities

• Work self-sufficiently to develop and drive test planning, strategy, and test cases for both automated and manual testing, with a heavy focus on automation. Work closely with firmware, ecosystem, and automation framework developers, dev teams in India, related partner teams within Amazon, and the immediate QA teams in Seattle and Arlington to both ensure product quality and to contribute to Continuous Integration efforts.
• Development of an efficient and effective device interop testing matrix for daily testing purposes and targeted build regression testing (ideally automated).
• Ongoing development and refinement of requirements for partner development with the Alexa Connect Kit.
• Define Quality Metrics and implement measurements to determine test effectiveness, testing efficiency, and measure the overall quality of the ACK experience across firmware, SDK, and the developer portal
• Work with the automation framework to improve and maintain an automated test infrastructure and automation test harness for a multi-platform product that will be used to validate all aspects of product operation.
• Analyze automated test run results and debug logs. Develop test metrics, analytics, and test reports to assess overall product stability and launch readiness.
• Integrate with existing infrastructure to establish a quality process for a continuous build and test cycle.
• Establish processes and tool sets to maintain automation scripts and generate regular reports, contributing ongoing streamlined data to engineering dashboards.

A day in the life
As a QAE II on this rapidly growing team, you'll champion the quality of our in-pipeline features by driving development and utilization of our test automation framework and associated tools. You'll work closely with developers, product managers, and other QAEs to insure that automated testing is addressed at every stage of the development cycle, from unit tests to integration to end-to-end release testing and sign-off. You'll improve process and product stability by driving effective use of the resulting automated test metrics. You'll own planning and execution of test strategies, including identifying/prioritizing automation opportunities for features and test cases. Your work will have a significant impact on the quality and delivery speed of our software and our business.

About the team
Customers love using Alexa to interact with their homes through natural commands and intuitive interfaces. We're evolving Alexa into an intelligent, indispensable companion that helps customers get the most out of the technology in their homes. It takes a rich, complex ecosystem to make it all work together seamlessly. Working in ACK means working closely with developer partners both internal and external to Amazon, as well as working cross-functionally with PMs and Solution Architects. Ultimately, we must deeply understand the end-user customer, and strive to anticipate how they're going to use our products.

• A Bachelor's or a Master's degree in Computer science, Software engineering or a related field
• 3+ yrs of applicable test engineering experience with major time designing test plans and strategies, as well as contributing to or maintaining automated test systems, frameworks, or user-level test automation.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming or scripting language such as C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python or PERL.
• Knowledge of professional Software Engineering and Quality Assurance best practices for the full software development life cycle, including testing methodologies, test planning, coding standards, test case management, code reviews, source control management, build processes, test prioritization, launch readiness, and operations.
• Experience in communicating with users, development and business teams, and management to pro-actively collect and understand requirements, communicate problem impacts, evaluate alternatives, and develop processes and tools as needed to support the organization. Ability to generate and communicate meaningful development and QA metrics.
• Experience developing in a Linux or Java environment, and in utilizing virtual machines.
• Knowledge of industry standard test automation tools, experience in utilizing product test harnesses and writing automated test cases, and instrumenting products or applying test metrics to gather quality results.
• Experience with evaluating and integrating in-house developed tool sets.
• Comfortable working autonomously in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment.
• Experience with interacting and coordinating test activities among multiple teams.
• Experience in an individual contributor or lead role in Quality Assurance or Quality Engineering or Software Testing.

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