# Luis Alvarez

> Senior Software Automation Engineer @ Apple

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/luisalvarez

Software Quality Engineer working in the internet industry. Strong agile engineering professional skilled in Test Automation, Java, JavaScript, and Selenium.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Automation Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2024 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States
Apple Services Engineering

### Software Quality Assurance Engineer II @ Amazon Music
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States
End-to-end quality owner for Amazon Music

- Product Responsibilities -
▪ Podcasts: Entire podcast experience including customer library, browse and discovery, and playback
▪ Lead the testing efforts for new features which reached the millions of Amazon Music customers worldwide

- Test Automation -
▪ UI Automation for Web and Mobile: Appium (mobile), Selenium (web)
▪ AWS integration for S3 and Cloudwatch that was leveraged for our automation framework
▪ Developed a tool that sends Bug data for a new feature to stakeholders. This was built using AWS Lambda, SES, AWS Eventbridge, and was written in Java

- Manual Testing -
- Created test plans, test case design, documentation, reviews
- New feature testing
- Regression tests: execution, cadence 
- Provided test coverage and test results transparency
- Conducted bug triage with developers and product teams
- Ensure production health through observability

▪ People: Quickly onboard new members
- Mentoring team members

### Software Quality Assurance Engineer @ Amazon Music
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Culver City, California, United States
Amazon Music Podcasts

### Software Quality Assurance Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Seattle
Alexa Skills

I was responsible for identifying manual Alexa skills test cases which could be automated with an existing framework. Once identifying those test cases I was responsible for automating the test cases and handing over test cases to teammates. 

Another project I was responsible for was looking into how our team could accomplish Alexa Video Skills automation. I was responsible for investigating different frameworks to accomplish our automation and how to integrate that framework into our existing automation workflow.

### Jr Software Quality Engineer @ Stay Alfred
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Spokane, Washington

### Software Engineer/Quality Assurance Intern @ Stay Alfred
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Spokane, Washington

### Athletic Marketing Student Assistant @ Eastern Washington University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
Working with a group to promote athletic games and promotions during half-time of games


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems
Eastern Washington University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018

### Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.)
Whatcom Community College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/luis-alvarezonline

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Last updated: 2026-03-22