About this role
At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. The focus we have on our customers is why we are one of the world’s most beloved brands – customer obsession is part of our company DNA. Our Software Quality Engineers (QAE) use technology to solve complex problems and get to see the impact of their work first-hand. The challenges QAEs solve for at Amazon are big and influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years. If this sounds interesting to you, apply and come chart your own path at Amazon.
Key job responsibilities
- At a strategic level, our QA team will help drive the software development process towards quality-centric methodologies.
- The QA team will also drive efficiencies in the QA process and invest appropriately in process changes, automation, tools etc to reduce the overall QA effort for the product.
- The goal of our QA team is to build a comprehensive test suite that will be utilized to validate the solution in a scalable and repeatable manner.
- The QA team identifies use cases and creates test plans, defines test strategies and creates test cases to validate software design via manual and automated tests.
- The QAE is responsible for conducting functional regression testing, integration testing and automation, and identify scaling and security issues for distributed, service oriented software systems using Java/ C++/C#, SQL, Perl, Python, JavaScript, as well as user-level automation using tools such as Selenium.
- Find opportunities for improvements in systems, tools and processes, as well as drive these improvements across the development groups.
- Work closely with the development groups that enhance and maintain the applications that make up the product and the underlying services that drive them.
- Write automated tests with Scripting tools and/or user-level automated tools.
- Responsible for understanding the domain and the product in detail and coming up with the test strategy/planning, developing test cases, driving the test case sign-off processes with the stakeholders, and test execution and reporting.