Manager, Quality Assurance, Prime Video Ads

Amazon • Seattle, WA

3d • $146,600 - $198,400 • Onsite

About The Position

Prime Video is a leading entertainment platform offering a wide range of premium content across various devices. The Prime Video Advertising team is focused on revolutionizing the streaming advertising landscape by developing ad tech solutions for Prime Video's growing advertising business. This includes areas such as ad ingestion, delivery, client-side ad experiences, optimization, tracking, and audience measurement, serving both advertisers and viewers worldwide.

Requirements

• 3+ years of quality assurance teams management experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience managing manual testers
• Experience managing automation testers
• Experience testing web technologies and back-end services
• Experience identifying and reviewing test plans, test cases and testing results with a strong QA background

Nice To Haves

• Experience preparing quality metrics and effectively engaging with stakeholders to set and drive quality goals
• Experience transforming QA programs from manual to automation

Responsibilities

• Own the customer-facing quality bar for every advertising experience on Prime Video.
• Lead the QA team that validates releases across connected TVs, gaming consoles, mobile, web, and smart TVs.
• Set the QA strategy and roadmap.
• Hire and grow QA Engineers and SDETs.
• Partner with engineering on shift-left automation using internal test frameworks and AI-assisted testing tools.
• Own live event readiness for marquee ad-supported launches.
• Lead a globally distributed QA team.
• Set the QA vision and partner with engineering, product, and live operations on execution.
• Own the release-validation roadmap and deliver it for every Prime Video Advertising launch.
• Decide where to invest in automation versus manual scale, and which initiatives move forward.
• Surface quality and regression risks with mitigation plans before they hit customers.
• Brief senior leadership on risk and quality posture, in writing and verbally.
• Drive resolution on quality decisions across teams with competing views.
• Define and improve metrics across release quality, defect escape rate, automation coverage, production incident rate, MTTR, and live event readiness.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager