Job Description

Do you want to transform the way people interact with digital content? Come join the team that builds Alexa Audio platform. We are innovating and changing the way our customers interact with media services and devices! You’ll be among the first ones in the space and get to define the customer experience, frameworks and processes for the years to come.
On the Alexa Audio Team, you will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience, design, architecture, and implementation of new and exciting products that will be used every day by people you know. We’re looking for people who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrate a high degree of product ownership, and want to have fun while they make history.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for quality assurance of new customer features and supporting architecture on a day-to-day and week-to-week basis. You’ll learn new in-demand skills like building and testing voice control interfaces and scalable API platforms that will be highly valuable as you grow your career at Amazon and beyond. You’ll work directly with Product Management, Development team and Design to ensure that Alexa customers will have the best experience for Alexa entertainment audio featured products. You’ll join a unique team in the Alexa organization with our own culture – we move fast to deliver new great features for customers and have a ton of fun doing it.

Key job responsibilities

Test planning, Test case writing, Automation, Requirement Analysis, Manual and Automation test execution, Debugging, Holding the Quality Bar high for our customers.

A day in the life

Quality Assurance Engineers are the owner of the features' quality. They work with product, development and other teams to deliver high quality product to Amazon's customers.

About the team
Alexa Audio: As Alexa Audio, we own the audio experiences on Alexa enabled devices. These experiences include Music, Podcast, Audio Books, Radio, and Ambient soundscapes. Our integration skill kits enable seamless integration of 1P / 3P audio content providers (e.g., Amazon Music, Spotify, Apple etc.) with Alexa devices. Audio is one of the most widely used experiences on Alexa, and is enjoyed by millions of customers on a daily basis.

There is a universe of tens of millions of distinct audio content that is available across streaming services. Using your voice, and timely proactive suggestions are the easiest ways to get to what you want. Alexa makes this magical for customers: ask any Alexa-enabled device to play your favorite song, podcast, book or a station, and Alexa will find the right content for you and play it. We also support being able to control and manage playback across multiple devices, and movement of media playback across them. It is still Day 1 for the audio experiences, and we're looking for a leader to help us make it even better.

Basic Qualifications

- 4+ years of quality assurance engineering experience
- Experience in manual testing
- Experience in automation testing
- Experience scripting or coding
- Experience as QA lead on medium to large sized projects
- Experience in manual testing, test planning, and creating detailed test cases
- * 4+ years of non-internship quality assurance engineering experience
- * 4+ years Experience in automation testing, test planning, test strategy
- * 4+ years Experience in automation testing (Java/Python)

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in gathering test requirements to create detailed test plans and defining quality metrics to measure product quality
- Experience understanding the basics of software testing or hardware devices like tablets, smartphones, voice recognition devices etc.
- Experience designing and planning test conditions, test scripts, and test data sets to ensure appropriate and adequate coverage and control
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent

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