Software Development Engineer Test, Alexa Global quality

Key job responsibilities

• This role will lead the quality assurance automation and framework creation/enhancement efforts responsible for the end-to-end quality of Alexa's multi-locale experience. We are looking for a proven, hands-on, results-oriented quality assurance software engineer to drive the strategy, tool selection, quality bar, and best practices for the future experience of our international customers.
• Establishing a consistent, scalable testing framework that supports multi-locale validation and complements the development processes across all supported locales
• Working closely with engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and testing approach for internationalization (i18n)
• Building and evolving agentic tooling for end-to-end quality evaluation — from synthetic test case generation, to multimodal response validation, to automated cultural and linguistic correctness assessment
• Creating metrics and reports on quality status, technical operations, and system performance across all locales, driving towards agreed-upon quality bars that are consistent yet culturally appropriate per market
• Working effectively with product managers, Country PMs, designers, engineering, locale experts, and business teams to deliver the best overall experience factoring in financial goals, usability goals, and locale-specific customer expectations

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of non-internship professional software development testing experience
• 2+ 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
• Experience in penetration testing and exploitability-focused vulnerability assessment
• Experience in platform-level security mitigations and hardening for Linux and Windows

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance in a database environment
• Experience building test automation frameworks and tools