Quality Assurance Engineer

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Job Description
Amazon device team is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Amazon device team creating the best-selling Kindle family of products . we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire Tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo.

What will you help us create?

The Role:
We are a smart team of doers that work passionately to apply cutting edge advances in hardware and software to solve real-world challenges that will transform our customers' experiences in ways we can't even imagine yet. As a QA Manager in this team, you will be working with a unique and gifted team building exciting products for consumers and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams, including Amazon Alexa.

The successful QA manager will be highly customer focused, obsessed with quality, with a proven record of working effectively across functional organizations. He or she should be a strong hands on manager with good technical experience and the ability to drive against a high level test strategy based on a data driven quality approach. The manager will be a strong quality advocate with a good planning and optimization mindset. In this role you will:

• Will work with a team of test engineers to ensure the highest quality product delivery and define measurable metrics to gauge progress against objective QA goals.
• Work with business and development teams to understand product vision and requirements
• Set and drive expectations around quality for major releases grounded in solid customer impact and product understanding
• Understand how all elements of the system software ecosystem work together and develop 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 monitor and report on test execution
• Work with a team of quality engineering professionals to ensure the highest quality product delivery
• Be an experienced but hands-on manager who can build an organization and ensure it performs

Desired profile

Basic Qualifications
- 6+ years' experience leading or managing Quality Assurance teams
- Experience developing high quality test plans and test cases
- Experience with functional, performance and stress testing.
- Experience developing testing automation tools and frameworks
- Strong problem solving and trouble shooting skills and an ability to come up with creative solutions to impossible-to-solve problems
- 5+ years of experience developing products in WIFI/BT/ZIGBEE
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science and a minimum of 5 years' experience in testing or development is desired.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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Basic Qualifications
- 6+ years' experience leading or managing Quality Assurance teams
- Experience developing high quality test plans and test cases
- Experience with functional, performance and stress testing.
- Experience developing testing automation tools and frameworks
- Strong problem solving and trouble shooting skills and an ability to come up with creative solutions to impossible-to-solve problems
- 5+ years of experience developing products in WIFI/BT/ZIGBEE
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science and a minimum of 5 years' experience in testing or development is desired.
Preferred Qualifications
• Strong communication skills - both written and oral. Comfortable communicating cross-functionally and across management levels in formal and informal settings
• Strong organizational skills, ability to track multiple test executions simultaneously and to be able to synthesize the results
• 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
• Experience in agile development methodologies with continuous integration
• Experience validating high quality consumer facing applications on embedded communications platforms
• Shows creativity and initiative to improve product test coverage and effectiveness