The Certification Technical Editor (CTE) edits content for global audiences across all domains in the AWS certification product portfolio. This portfolio currently includes 12 certification exams that are administered to more than 550K global customers annually. The CTE can accurately and independently edit content for all levels of certification exams, from entry-level foundational exams to highly specialized and technical professional and specialty exams. The CTE performs all levels of editing, including copyediting and proofreading, fact checking, substantive content editing, and high-level developmental editing for a variety of content, such as exam questions, exam content guides, instructional presentations, blog posts, and process documents. The CTE ensures that AWS certification exams accurately measure candidate knowledge by maintaining clear, concise content that adheres to global English and psychometric standards. This role is critical to maintaining certification value and fairness by eliminating language barriers and testing artifacts that could impede accurate assessment. The CTE is skilled at editing content to meet global English standards so that exam content can be translated accurately into more than 10 languages. The CTE remains vigilant for noninclusive, offensive, and regionally specific language at all times and ensures that exam content is clear, inclusive, and fair for a diverse global audience. The CTE is also a guardian of AWS brand integrity, ensuring that AWS services and technologies are described accurately, consistently, and correctly in all exam-related content. The CTE is knowledgeable about assessment industry best practices and applies them to successfully manage the editorial process for all stages of an exam’s lifecycle. This lifecycle includes Job Task Analysis (JTA) surveys, JTA reports, exam blueprints, exam guides, practice exams, unscored high-stakes exam content, and scored high-stakes exam content, for which psychometric principles and statistics must be considered. The CTE must apply strong professional judgment to incorporate guidelines from numerous style guides and must be adept at navigating competing or overlapping guidance to meet the needs of customers. The CTE must implement process changes to adapt to new conditions and incorporate new technology to increase editorial output and improve content quality without compromising the legal defensibility of the exam development process. The CTE is a versatile and independent problem solver, tackling both the details of individual issues and long-term content development strategy. The CTE leverages their experience, existing style guides, and internal resources to design editorial approaches for new products and product features with limited guidance and while developing editorial standards that improve content. The CTE coordinates and drives detailed discussions and gains high-level alignment across teams for workflow revisions and changes to live exam content. The CTE is at the forefront of incorporating responsible and effective AI/ML automations into existing and new processes to drive process and quality improvements