Key job responsibilities
- Ensure eero ships performant and stable WiFi that delights our customers.
- Lead and coach a team of high performing engineers tasked with validating eero's WiFi.
- Manage a team split across multiple geographies and timezones.
- Empower the team to regularly deliver validation on tight timelines.
- Balance and prioritize incoming requests from WiFi / Mesh team, Hardware Engineering, New Product, Customer Experience, ISP relationships, eero product, Amazon teams, external partners, and other eero engineering teams.
- Own and develop relationships with external partners and teams within Amazon.
- Develop and manage a clear process on how other teams and individuals can request test coverage.
- Build detailed schedules and technical requirements from high level product descriptions.
- Communicate status in an understandable way to a wide range of audiences including the eero executive team.
- Estimate delivery dates with confidence intervals based on the measured team velocity, remaining work, and projected new work.
- Identify, champion, and deliver the highest impact automation.
- Implement process improvements for both your own and surrounding teams.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership to the team.
- Analyze performance and stability data from our testing and production populations to catch regressions and validate new features.
- Manage team budget, headcount projections, recruiting and continuous performance evaluations.
- Monitor, drive and facilitate individual growth of your team's individual contributors.
About the team
eero is a lean team. This means you'll enjoy an outsized impact and the benefit of having many different responsibilities. All within a day you'll be validating for new hardware programs and internationalization, asking the team to reproduce high priority bug coming from the field, grooming the backlog of bugs without reproductions, syncing with stakeholders on upcoming projects, and of course helping test the product. This role has a wide breadth with many stakeholders which keeps it challenging and fun.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of technical education and experience.
- 8+ years of industry experience, including at least three years of hands-on testing and 3 years as a Quality Assurance manager.
- Experience in building and managing automation.
- Experience in managing manual testing.
- Experience in consumer electronics product, distributed systems design and testing required.
- Knowledge of QA concepts and methodology.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Deep hands-on technical expertise in testing WiFi from the physical layer and up. For example, you can easily analyze an over the air packet capture.
- Experience with automating multiple heterogeneous mix of client applications and embedded software devices is required.
- Track record of building quality assurance teams that leverage a global workforce.
- Passionate about developing and mentoring others.
- Demonstrated ability to handle multiple, competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- 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.
- Comfortable communicating cross-functionally and across management levels in formal and informal settings even when the results are disappointing.
- Leverage field data and are capable of analyzing it. For instance, you are happy to build a confidence interval, run a t-test, or build out a model.
- Strong organizational skills, ability to track multiple test executions simultaneously and to be able to synthesize the results.
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