Job summary
The Alexa Devices team is looking for a passionate, driven, and hands-on Quality Assurance Manager who has experience in designing automated testcases, building frameworks and consumer device testing. We are looking for this manager to manage a Chennai-based QA team dedicated to automating our test suite and building tools which facilitate this ongoing effort.

As a Quality Assurance Manager, you will create and implement a strategy driving the quality of our products to a world class level while managing a team of Quality Assurance professionals. In addition to experience with building and leading successful test teams, we're looking for someone to drive quality through both software and process improvements and drive engineering excellence across multiple test teams. The successful Quality Assurance Manager will be obsessed with quality improvement, experienced and highly committed to creating world class automation for regression and feature testing, able to develop and drive a high-level test and automation strategy, as well as take a hands-on approach to implementing that strategy, experienced in people management with strong problem-solving skills and have a solid software testing foundation. Your knowledge and leadership while working with remote teams will be exemplary, and you will work to bridge the communication gap between our worldwide teams, and help ensure consistency in our QA activities.

Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:

· Work with business and development teams to understand product vision and requirements
· Work with a team of quality engineering professionals (QAEs and SDETs) to ensure highest quality product delivery.
· 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 E2E testing
· Participate in operational excellence activities for the entire organization.
· Be responsible for development of automation test strategies and creation of appropriate test frameworks
· Oversee the development and execution of test automation and monitoring and reporting on test automation progress
· Take part in hiring and developing a Team on engineers

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field or equivalent work experience
· 2+ years of experience as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with strong object-oriented design and coding skills.
· Demonstrated experience in test framework design and development
· Understanding of QA methodologies, life cycle and processes
· Experience conducting manual and automated testing
· Experience with consumer device testing
· Excellent troubleshooting skills and a passion for breaking software.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
· Knowledge of industry standard test automation tools and experience in developing product test harnesses and instrumenting products to gather test results.
· Experience with test driven development and establishing unit test infrastructures.
· Experience automating the validating of modern user interfaces and messaging infrastructures.
· Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment.
· Experience interacting and coordinating test activities amongst multiple teams.
· Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, evaluate alternatives, and develop processes and tools as needed to support the organisation.