Quality Assurance Manager, Publisher Tools to Reader
Seattle (King) Design / Civil engineering / Industrial engineering
Job description
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Kindle is a revolutionary reading device and Kindle Content is an innovative, fast-paced and growing business at Amazon. Our vision within Kindle is to make every book ever published, in any language, available to Kindle customers instantly. The Kindle Core Reading Engineering team delivers products that provide amazing reading experiences across a large and growing number of computing and mobile environments. We are looking for leaders with a passion for solving challenging technical problems and create superior reading experiences. We are seeking an innovative, results-oriented customer-centric Quality Assurance Manager to be part of the Kindle Core Reading Experiences organization.
The successful candidate will be passionate about building a great organization, obsessed with quality improvements, experienced and highly committed to creating world class automation for regression and feature testing. The candidate will be experienced with agile processes and methodologies, able to manage a fast-paced delivery schedule, able to create and drive a high-level test strategy, as well as take a hands-on approach to implementing that strategy in partnership with the development leadership. This leader will be ready to jump in and drive an organization that values releasing world-class software to customers with a high frequency and quality bar.
Roles & Responsibilities:
· Working with business and development teams to understand product vision and requirements.
· Understanding how all elements of the system software ecosystem work together and developing QA approaches that fit the overall strategy.
· Responsible for development of test strategies and creation of appropriate test harnesses.
· Overseeing the development and execution of test plans and monitoring and reporting on test execution.
· Will work with a team of quality engineering professionals to ensure the highest quality product delivery.
· The successful candidate is an experienced but hands-on manager who can build and grow an organization and ensure it performs.
Desired profile
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of technical education and experience.
· 10+ years of industry experience, including at least 3 years in a QA Manager role.
· Strong people management skills with vast experience as manager.
· Strong knowledge of QA concepts and methodology.
· Good knowledge of Testing tools and Test Automation.
· Strong organizational skills, ability to track multiple test executions simultaneously and to be able to synthesize the results.
· Comfortable communicating cross-functionally and across management levels in formal and informal settings.