Software QA Engineer, Device OS

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo.

As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you will be responsible for innovating and driving new Quality initiatives, establishing new test frameworks and processes for testing new devices and OS, finding ways to leverage and scale to deliver without compromising quality and efficiency, establishing quality metrics and best practices for the team. You will lead the team by example as a quality leader who is customer obsessed, thinks big and delivers results without compromising quality.

Key job responsibilities:

• Design and develop comprehensive test strategies, test plans, automation, and methodologies to ensure the quality and reliability of software products.
• Collaborate and influence cross-functional teams including developers, product managers, and project managers to understand software quality requirements and design effective test strategies.
• Define release planning and provide input on the readiness of software for production deployment.
• Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers, providing guidance, technical expertise, and ensuring adherence to best practices.
• Work with component teams to identify pain points in their area and provide technical guidance.
• Create, maintain, and execute test cases, test scripts, and test scenarios for various software components, including functional, regression, performance, and security testing.
• Identify and document defects, issues, and potential areas of improvement in the software development process.
• Perform root cause analysis of complex issues and work with the development team to resolve issues and enhance overall product quality.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in QA and testing, and apply this knowledge to continuously improve testing processes.
• Define key metrics for measuring and reporting on the quality of software products and test effectiveness.

You will be working closely with cross-functional engineering and quality teams as you drive quality for a big pillar in the entire organization. Teams will be looking to you for direction. You will participate in test strategy creation and reviews, driving QA process improvement implementation and help tackle cross-platform engineering challenges.

Join the Device OS team! We own software components, services, tools, and application development frameworks that power our next generation of devices, and enable key features for device makers.