Amazon Quality Assurance Manager Alexa Audio 

United States, California, Sunnyvale 

440459811

Key job responsibilities
As a Quality Assurance Manager, you will work closely with the Product Management, Technical Project Manager, Software Development Engineering, to understand the product vision, requirements and customer usage models and develop appropriate test strategies. You will be setting the QA team’s technical vision and roadmap, developing and tracking project schedules. The successful Quality Assurance Manager has strong customer focus and is obsessed with continuous quality improvement; they are experienced and highly committed to creating world class automation for feature testing and regression; they are able to develop and drive a high-level strategy, as well as to take a hands-on approach to implementing that strategy. They are dedicated to building a strong and high performing team.
Responsibilities:
· Working 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
· 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
· Working with a team of quality engineering professionals to ensure the highest quality product delivery
· Coordinating 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
A day in the life

- 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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- * Experience building a QA organization that is responsible for end-end validation for a critical system or application
- * Understanding of testing strategies including technologies for automated testing

- Experience preparing quality metrics and effectively engaging with stakeholders to set and drive quality goals
- Experience transforming QA programs from manual to automation