Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Amazon

• The candidate will have good hands-on experience in test automation and testing, with good knowledge of the core software testing techniques
• 4+ years of quality assurance engineering experience
• Experience in manual testing
• Experience in automation testing
• Experience as QA lead on medium to large sized projects

Desirable

• Our Multimedia QA team works to ensure multimedia FireOS components - audio, video and DRM are bug free on Amazon’s FireTV devices
• The team also works on various developer tools, and media players to better enable Amazon’s partners in their quest to develop applications for these devices
• The ultimate goal is to ensure Amazon’s customers have the best possible multimedia (Audio, Video, DRM and 3P app) experience across all applications and devices produced by Amazon
• Achieving this means working closely with our external/internal partners and multimedia developers owning audio, video and DRM components in FireOS. A key element of this work is in testing these applications (and other internal features and tools) and components to spot any quality escapes resulting from application changes or platform changes. For this we need Software QA Engineers with experience in multimedia (Audio, Video, DRM)
• Software QA Engineers test code at both the user level and API level, both manually and with automated tools
• Our Software QA Engineers use black box, gray box, and white box testing techniques; they are able to understand software internals, debug problems using log files, and write automated tests with Python/JavaScript and/or user-level test automation tools
• Software QA Engineers work with Software Development Engineers to understand features and technical implementations
• Software QA Engineers also work with groups such as Product Management, User Experience Design, and Customer Support to understand customer usage models and develop test plans and test suites that approximate real-world environments and regression tests
• Software QA Engineers are also responsible for driving the software development process toward quality-centric methodologies
• As a QA Engineer, you will champion the quality of our features in development pipeline using both automated and manual tests, reporting and verifying defects, and signing-off on features and release candidates
• You will own authoring and execution of test plans and test cases
• You will have a significant impact in the quality and delivery speed of our software/business, and most importantly our customers
• You will work closely with developers, product managers, and QA in order to ensure the features we deliver to our customers have a high level of quality
• In addition, you will also have the opportunity to propose improvements to our existing processes and automated tools in order to improve the team’s speed, quality and efficiency

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.