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Quality Assurance Engineer, Amazon Kids+

Amazon.com Inc

  • Seattle, WA
  • 5 days ago

    Highlights

    No two days look exactly the same in this role, but most of your time is spent doing what great engineers do best: designing quality strategies, building automation frameworks, and increasingly, directing AI-assisted testing to validate high-quality experiences faster. As an QAE on the Kids+ Child-First Experiences team, you"ll be the guardian for voice-first and cross-surface experiences that millions of kids ages 3-12 interact with every day, from AI-powered storytelling adventures to conversational content discovery powered by Alexa.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSeattle, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    Description

    Join a team on a mission to make Kids+ every child"s favorite destination to independently create, explore, and learn - and give parents the confidence to let them. As an QAE on the Kids+ Child-First Experiences team, you"ll be the guardian for voice-first and cross-surface experiences that millions of kids ages 3-12 interact with every day, from AI-powered storytelling adventures to conversational content discovery powered by Alexa.

    In this role, you"ll be the anchor for ensuring premium, subscription-defining experiences deliver flawlessly across Echo devices, FireTV, and Tablet - experiences compelling enough to make Kids+ a must-have for tens of millions of families worldwide. You"ll own quality, design and implement tools for child-adapted UIs and voice interactions, navigating the unique intersection of delight and compliance in child-directed design while building intelligent test automation that scales across our organization.

    Key job responsibilities

    Own quality for voice-first (VUI) and cross-surface (GUI/native/web) experiences for features like Stories with Alexa and Create Your Own Adventure, leveraging AI and LLM-based frameworks to build intelligent evaluation systems

    Lead cross-stack quality validation across device, app, and server-driven CX implementations - making smart tradeoffs that balance child experience, legal constraints, and platform capabilities while ensuring quality at every step of the CI/CD pipeline

    Partner across Amazon Kids and Alexa Kids groups to establish quality standards for flagship integrations and conversational content discovery mechanisms, creating reusable testing frameworks and self-service tooling that enable development teams to move faster

    Scale the high bar for quality execution across the Kids engineering organization, mentoring teams on child-adaptation testing best practices, establishing SLAs and unit test coverage goals, and fostering a quality-first mindset throughout the organization

    A day in the life

    No two days look exactly the same in this role, but most of your time is spent doing what great engineers do best: designing quality strategies, building automation frameworks, and increasingly, directing AI-assisted testing to validate high-quality experiences faster. You"ll engineer systems that assess relevancy to requirements, accuracy, and responsiveness across voice, multimodal, firetv and tablet platforms - going far beyond binary pass/fail tests.

    The remaining time is spent shaping the technical direction of the team, conducting root cause analysis on complex issues spanning multiple systems, and influencing how the broader organization builds quality into products for kids.

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

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    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
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