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Director, Quality Assurance, Quality Assurance

Technology   |   Job ID  2822555
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Job Summary

At Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It’s why we work with some of the world’s leading creators to produce and share audio storytelling with our millions of global listeners. We are dreamers and inventors who come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to empower and inspire each other. Imagine your future with us.

ABOUT THIS ROLE
This opportunity is for a Quality Assurance Director overseeing Audible features and services in the Android ecosystem. We are embarking on a mission to delight our customers and reshape how quality engineering is done across all surfaces and devices within Audible. It's our responsibility to push Audible into new places; wherever our customers are listening. Achieving this vision means expanding and strengthening Continuous Delivery across surfaces as well as driving a strong quality culture. This role requires a strong shift-left data-driven mindset and experience enabling teams to improve product quality at scale.

ABOUT THE TEAM
Audible Quality Assurance organization helps to promote product quality and organization quality ownership thru well-defined measurable processes, comprehensive quality assessment and identification of risk. We enable the Audible Technology group to deliver the best Audible experience to our customers that will improve how millions of Audible members hear and interact with spoken word content. We consistently innovate and seek better methods and processes to help ensure the agile delivery of a quality product.

If you are ready to become a part of a culture that celebrates innovation and independent thought and want to use your passion and creativity to improve the daily lives of listeners around the world, we have a place for you on our team – come join us.

As a Director, Quality Assurance, you will...
- Drive the long-term strategic direction for your team
- Establish structures and mechanisms that provide software release confidence
- Work with other QA teams and to drive cohesive test strategies to ensure customer, business, and technology needs are met
- Collaborate and engage regularly with stakeholders, remote teams, and communicate effectively with senior leaders
- Tackle ambiguous problems and proactively mitigate risks before they become roadblocks
- Understand the functionality, architecture, business drivers, and technologies behind the products and systems your teams support
- Drive the adoption of best practices and regularly review business, performance, and operational metrics
- Establish mechanisms that audit the customer experience, quality and, operational performance of the software tested by your team(s)
- Drive your team to improve processes and resolve the root cause of endemic problems
- Actively build talent and teams by hiring, coaching, and mentoring quality engineers, proactively developing and promoting top performers

ABOUT AUDIBLE
Audible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners’ imaginations, offering immersive, cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers daily lives. We are a global company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are dreamers and inventors who are passionate about the positive impact Audible can make for our customers and our neighbors. This spirit courses throughout Audible, supporting a culture of creativity and inclusion built on our People Principles and our mission to build more equitable communities in the cities we call home.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelors or advanced degree in Computer Science or closely related field
- 7+ years of industry experience in quality assurance or software development
- 4+ years of hands-on software testing and/or development experience with expertise in Test Automation and Continuous Delivery
- 3+ years of experience managing quality engineering teams and developing technical direct reports (performance review communication, accountability, motivation/engagement)
- Experience with Native Application development tooling (Android and/or iOS SDKs)
- Experience in designing and building test tools and frameworks
- Experience working through others to accomplish the day-to-day work of the organization

Preferred Qualifications

- Results oriented and with a strong customer focus
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
- Experience with test and behavior driven development
- Experience growing engineers and managers to scale with the needs of the organization
- Demonstrated ability to make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Experience defining and championing best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, build processes, testing, and operations
- Action-oriented strategic thinker
- Demonstrated ability to make risk aware tradeoffs
- Experience testing, debugging and supporting Audio Playback oriented
- Native applications on Android and/or iOS
- Able to thrive in an ambiguous environment where change is the only constant

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Audible is built on a strong foundation as an Amazon subsidiary, so you’ll get to leverage all of Amazon's technologies while still being on a small team with an entrepreneurial spirit. We’re looking for someone who knows how to use data to provide our customers with engaging and inspiring experiences.

    • Curious You are open to others’ perspectives and ideas. When faced with challenges, you stay inquisitive, collaborating and testing different approaches.
    • Imaginative You imagine freely and support your colleagues’ own imagining. You ask “What if…?” and employ original thinking in your work.
    • Customer Centric You are passionate about creating delightful experiences. Whether you’re working with creators, customers, or colleagues you aim to exceed their expectations in every way.
    • Inventive You express ideas and navigate complex and ambiguous situations in novel ways, even creating new paradigms or structures for others to follow.
    • Socially Conscious You’re mindful of the impact we have on each other and apply empathy into your work with colleagues, communities, and customers.
    • Effective Communicator By adapting complex information for your audience, you’re able to foster collaboration and have a positive impact on outcomes

What we can offer you

We are a community of brilliant minds, brimming with fresh ideas and working shoulder to shoulder to achieve greatness. And because of this, we think it’s only fair that we offer some nice little perks to everyone who goes the extra mile at Audible.

Flexible Work

We promote flexibility in how and where we work with our Hub+Home hybrid workplace model.

Health

Dental and vision plans, life insurance, and the medical plan options that suit individual needs.

Savings

Plan for your future with employer-matched savings accounts.

Stock

We grant our employees restricted stock units, because we want them to think and act like owners.

Time Off

We love what we do but everyone needs the opportunity to hit the refresh button. Take advantage of vacation days, sick days, and personal days to rejuvenate.

Community

We are committed to building and sustaining a diverse and inclusive culture and community. Audible’s Impact Groups encourage an environment where you can be you, and bring your whole self to work.

Amazon Discount

As part of the Amazon family, Audible employees are entitled to a discount on products on Amazon.

Learning & Development

We want to help you grow with learning and development programs, leadership training and tuition reimbursement.

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Audible's People Principles celebrate who we are and where we've been, and guide the way we work shoulder to shoulder to enhance the lives of our millions of customers around the world. They reflect and apply to everyone who works at Audible—the entrepreneurs and operators, the dreamers and the doers, those who have worked here for 25 years and those who have arrived in the past few weeks and months.

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Community Impact

At Audible, we seek to exemplify what a company can mean beyond what it does. We recruit and cultivate local talent, and we drive forward a wide range of initiatives focused on returning Newark to its roots as a hub of innovation. Our global offices embrace the same principle, and our employees around the world volunteer and serve in their communities in addition to seeding and growing the local creative economy.

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Location Benefits

Our Newark office is at the heart of the audio revolution. We stay inspired by visiting creatives, guest speakers, professional development, and community engagement. We fuel our ideas with daily catered lunch and then take in local culture or hang out with colleagues at weekly happy hours. Getting here is easy with free parking or transit perks, and employees who move to the neighborhood enjoy our monthly Live Local housing subsidy.

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