Principal Quality Assurance Engineer, Apps and Consumption Services

Overview

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 — As a Principal Quality Assurance Engineer, you will provide organization-wide strategic leadership and set the standard for quality engineering excellence. The Principal QAE role offers a unique opportunity to provide quality and test guidance horizontally across a broad number of teams from large scale multi-surface service development to mobile applications and native in-car experiences.

• Be a strong integrator who prioritizes well and communicates effectively
• Operate as a hands-on technical leader: diving deep into complex engineering challenges, making high-judgment decisions, and driving clarity across ambiguous problem spaces
• Lead and actively participate in test planning and tools reviews, aligning teams across your organization towards coherent strategies and best practices
• Define and own the technical strategy for automated testing using diverse technical solutions including Generative AI
• Define and implement mechanisms to raise the quality bar at scale and solve endemic issues
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience
• Provide mentorship to engineers, raising the bar on design, code quality, and operational excellence
• Actively participate in employee hiring and development process

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.

• 8+ years of quality assurance engineering experience
• Experience leading large teams of Software Quality and Design Assurance Engineers across complicated cross-discipline programs
• Experience defining and owning the technical strategy for automated testing using diverse technical solutions including Generative AI
• Experience with JIRA, Zephyr, Appium and other common tools
• Experience with software engineering practices & patterns for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, CI/CD, testing, and production operations