SDET, Alexa Audio

Do you want to transform the way people interact with digital content Come join the team that builds Alexa Audio platform. We are innovating and changing the way our customers interact with media services and devices! Youll be among the first ones in the space and get to define the customer experience frameworks and processes for the years to come.
On the Alexa Audio Team you will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience design architecture and implementation of new and exciting products that will be used every day by people you know. Were looking for people who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers demonstrate a high degree of product ownership and want to have fun while they make history.

Key job responsibilities
* Lead the design and development of quality infrastructure that encourages the optimal combination of unit/component/integration and end to end tests.
* Lead the design and development of performance testing and platform verification kit.
* Collaborate with software engineering teams driving continuous development integration and deployment
* Working with Principal Engineers and other Senior engineers to develop best practices for software quality assurance across multiple software teams
* Actively participate in cross team design reviews
* Assist in the career development of others actively mentoring individuals and the community
* Exert technical influence over multiple teams increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and expertise.
* You will have a profound impact on millions of customers.
* Report on status of development quality operations and system performance to management
* The key requirement for this position is established skill designing and developing complex interactive customer experiences.

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit know how to deliver are deeply technical highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems we want to talk to you.


About the team
Alexa Audio: As Alexa Audio we own the audio experiences on Alexa enabled devices. These experiences include Music Podcast Audio Books Radio and Ambient soundscapes. Our integration skill kits enable seamless integration of 1P / 3P audio content providers (e.g. Amazon Music Spotify Apple etc.) with Alexa devices. Audio is one of the most widely used experiences on Alexa and is enjoyed by millions of customers on a daily basis.

There is a universe of tens of millions of distinct audio content that is available across streaming services. Using your voice and timely proactive suggestions are the easiest ways to get to what you want. Alexa makes this magical for customers: ask any Alexa-enabled device to play your favorite song podcast book or a station and Alexa will find the right content for you and play it. We also support being able to control and manage playback across multiple devices and movement of media playback across them. It is still Day 1 for the audio experiences and were looking for a leader to help us make it even better.

As SDET you will be responsible for building highly scaled systems that ensure Alexa continues to delight customers world wide.


- 3 years of non-internship professional software development testing experience
- 3 years of test automation frameworks and tools building experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including object-oriented design

- Knowledge of overall system architecture scalability reliability and performance in a database environment
- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures and web services
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field

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