Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Amazon
Automotive
$120-207.4k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$120-207.4k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- The successful Software Quality Assurance Engineer will be obsessed with customer experience, quality improvement, and challenge the status quo
- 6+ years of quality assurance engineering experience
- 4+ years of delivering test frameworks, test tools, leading the QA projects and initiatives experience
- Knowledge of QA methodology and tools, with demonstrated experience in an QAE role
- Experience in automation testing
- Experience in manual testing
Desirable
- 2+ years of UI Automation (preferably on mobile platforms) experience
- Knowledge of at least one modern object-oriented programming language such as C++, Java, Objective C
What the job involves
- We're looking for a talented Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer to join our team of product managers, designers, and engineers to conceive, design, develop, and test innovative automotive-shopping experiences for our customers
- As a Sr. Software Quality Assurance Engineer, you will join the team of hands-on, passionate and seasoned SQA professionals developing innovative consumer-centric product solutions
- You will work with Development teams and our QA organization to scope out features and understand the customer requirements, then work side-by-side with the team to ensure the quality of our system
- Work with Software Development Engineers to understand the overall technical architecture and how each feature is implemented. Understand performance impacts over the product
- Create test plans and test cases
- Automate tests using internal and open source tools & infrastructure
- Review user interfaces for conformity, functionality and performance
- Review product user interface for conformity to design guidelines
- Find, isolate, document, regress, and track bugs through resolution
- Interpret and report testing results, and be a vocal proponent for quality in every phase of the development process
- Participate in the full development life cycle, working within broadly defined parameters, including test plan execution and software quality needs
- Writing and executing test plans, designing and developing test tools, debugging and reporting code bugs and pushing quality upstream
- Create and execute appropriate quality plans, project plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts
- Define test strategy, tools and process for quality assurance of the product and software
- Define, rollout, and enforce best practice processes in the areas of functional, system and regression testing using a combination of manual and automated testing
- Develop test strategies, test plans, and test schedules for new projects and software releases
- Shows creativity and initiative to improve product coverage and effectiveness
- Familiarity with CI/CD automation frameworks (especially using Python and Java)
- Efficiently execute test cases across all functional and backend areas of our products
- Demonstrated ability to operate within short release cycles
- Technical leader defining the Performance KPI roadmap and product test strategy deliverables
- Mentoring L4/L5 QA team members and be the subject matter expert for knowledge sharing and engineering practices
- Work across team boundaries to evolve best practices, test requirements, influence decisions made by QA organizations
- As a Sr. Software Quality Assurance Engineer on this team, you will be deploying your technical acumen and experience in driving the development of maintainable, reliable automation deliverables that would withstand the test of time
- You will be working closely with Product Managers, Sr. Engineers, Quality Engineers, Technical Program Managers, and highly motivated peers
- You will collaborate with teams across Amazon on the planning and execution of complex and highly-technical projects with high impact and visibility
- This role is on a team with a vision to create innovative automotive discovery and shopping experiences on Amazon, providing customers better convenience and more selection
- We’re collaborating with other experienced teams at Amazon to define the future of how customers research and shop for cars online
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
- Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
- 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt
Company values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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Founders
Jeff Bezos
(Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO (not founder))Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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