Quality Assurance Engineer, Alexa Connect Kit, Alexa Smart Home

About the job

Would you like to be a part of building out the future of Smart Home Devices? Want to join a team that enables device makers to build smart home appliances?

The Alexa Connect Kit Team is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to support our team. As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will work closely with the engineering team to establish and maintain a high quality bar. You will participate in design discussions, planning and sprint retrospectives. You will write test scripts and automated test cases the provide effective end to end test coverage through ACK's full engineering stack across the cloud, UI and Firmware.

The Alexa Connect Kit team is a team within Alexa Smart Home. We offer managed services (cloud services, firmware, devices) for enabling device makers to build smart home appliances. We work across verticals that Alexa Smart Home supports, partnering with manufacturers to bring to market everything from Christmas trees, coffee makers to light switches and air purifiers. We get to help out big grand partners such as Toshiba, Sharp, Hamilton Beach and more realize their product vision at what they do best, whilst we bring best in class Alexa and Smart Home features into their products in an easy to integrate manner.

Key job responsibilities At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. The challenges QAE's solve for at Amazon are big and influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world.

The ideal teammate is passionate about Alexa and has a track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to teamwork, knowledge of IoT systems, strong CS fundamentals, experience testing software applications, developing and executing test plans, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements.

About the team Would you like to be a part of building out the future of Smart Home Devices? Want to join a team that enables device makers to build smart home appliances?

You will get a startup like culture with the stability of an established industry leader. You will get support and resources from some of the smartest people in the industry to continue learning. You will build software that will materially improve people’s lives.

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

Preferred qualifications - Experience with at least one automated test framework like Selenium or Appium - Experience in gathering test requirements to create detailed test plans and defining quality metrics to measure product quality

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