Quality Assurance Manager, Amazon Smart Vehicles

Quality Assurance Manager, Amazon Smart Vehicles

Description

Do you have a passion for Automotive? Do you want to challenge the status quo of the in-car experience? Do you want to take on very ambiguous problems? If you answered yes to these questions, we have a dream job for you. We are building the next generation voice-forward in-cabin experience that delights customers, increases safety, and brings the future of digital cabin to life.

Key job responsibilities
• Be obsessed with quality improvement and highly committed to building and retaining a solid QA team, creating reliable testing strategy, automation for regression, feature and End-to-End testing.
• Work with product management and cross-functional teams to build and ship technical solutions for the best customer experiences
• Establish structures that enable your team to solve complex problems and deliver large systems
• Work successfully with customers, leaders, and other engineering teams. You foster constructive dialogue, harmonize discordant views, and lead the resolution of contentious issues
• Provide hands-on technical leadership to the team, test plan reviews, and prioritization
Advise senior and executive management on product quality
• Manage team priorities, headcount projections, recruiting, and continuous performance evaluations
Hire the right mix of engineers to accomplish team goals. You can assess performance and have experience managing both high and low performers. You take effective action addressing employee concerns. You successfully hire, develop, and promote.


A day in the life
As a Quality Assurance (QA) leader, you will build and lead a diverse team of QA engineers to solve technical problems, develop and execute roadmap of test frameworks & infrastructure. You will be working with an assorted set of stakeholders, both internally at Amazon, and with some of our most strategic Automotive OEM partners. You will influence the roadmap and technology decisions that will drive future products and features that directly affect our growth in this critical space. A successful candidate is a motivator and an experienced leader who can hire high-caliber engineers and collaborate across matrixed organizations, with the ability to influence senior leadership.

About the team
Amazon Smart Vehicles vision is to bring the Alexa experience into the car, so you can take her with you on the go. Voice technology shines in environments where you’re occupied with other tasks. That’s a big reason why Alexa has become so popular in places like the kitchen or living room, and why we see the opportunity in automotive as big as the smart home. With Alexa in the car, customers can use their voice to play music, control in-cabin comfort features like AC/heater, control smart home devices from the car, and access tens of thousands of skills built by third-party developers – all while keeping their hands on the wheel and eyes on the road.

Basic Qualifications

- 1+ years of quality assurance engineering experience
- 3+ 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

Preferred Qualifications

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