Alexa Smarthome Home team is responsible for integrating your smart home devices with Alexa and bringing your home to life! Our products complement the Alexa voice experience by giving customers quick and intuitive ways to interact with their home during moments that are more suited for touch and screenbased interactions.
Key job responsibilities
QA Engineers test code through a variety of methods which include: manual test cases writing test automation and use of various tools. Our QA Engineers use black box gray box and white box testing techniques; they are able to understand software internals debug problems using log files and write automated tests and/or userlevel test automation tools. Software QA Engineers work with Software Development Engineers to understand features and technical implementation. Software QA Engineers also work with groups such as Product Management User Experience Design and Customer Support to understand customer usage models and develop test plans and test suites that approximate realworld environments and regression tests. Software QA Engineers are also responsible for driving the software development process toward qualitycentric methodologies.
A day in the life
Responsible for development of test strategies test case creation test automation and contributions to appropriate test harnesses.
Will work with a team of quality engineering professions to ensure the highest quality product delivery
Evaluate product functionality and create test strategies and test cases to assess product quality.
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations
Experience developing in a Linux environment and in utilizingvirtual machines
Expert in software quality and testing methodologies
Comfortable working in a fast paced highly collaborative dynamic work environment.
About the team
SHCC QA team owns Smarthome core GUI experience on the Alexa app and Multimodal devices.
SHCC QA exists to enable friction free end customer experience iterative development of high quality Smarthome features.
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 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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