Quality Assurance Engineer I, Appstore-MGX
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Job summary
We are looking for a high caliber and tested Quality Assurance Engineer for a project with strategic significance and high exposure. In this project we tackle some of the most intriguing problems in streaming and build highly scalable solutions to stream Android games from cloud to mobile/desktop devices.
As innovators we embrace new technology, you will be empowered to choose the right highly scalable and available technology to solve problems in software quality assurance. If you enjoy building software quality solutions for highly distributed systems and solving challenging problems, come join us!
Key job responsibilities
Quality Assurance Engineers at Amazon test cutting edge applications and products at the user level and code level, both manually and with automated tools. Our QAEs are not pure black box testers, they are able to understand software internals, debug problems using log files, and write automated tests with scripting tools and/or user-level automated tools. QAEs at Amazon are excellent individual contributors capable of taking up tasks from start to completion with minimal help. QAEs are responsible to understand the product domain, define test strategy and test plans, develop and drive test case execution and drive best practices to release high quality software to our customers.
You will work with Software Development Engineers to understand features and technical implementation. You will also work with groups such as Product Management, UX designers to understand customer usage models and develop test plans and suites that approximate real-world environments and regression tests driving the software development process toward quality-centric methodologies. You will develop automated tests to help fasten testing cycles and release faster to our customers. In this role, you will be responsible to deliver manual/automated solutions to test customer facing features and the streaming platform internal functionalities.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 1+ year of experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
- Experience in manual testing
- Experience in automation testing
- Bachelor's Degree
- Experience in at least one modern object-oriented programming language such as Java or Python
- Experience with Agile testing methodologies and best practices
- Implement multi-tier distributed software application test suites, execute and maintain test cases.
- Rollout system changes that meet requirements for functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, and adherence to development goals and principles.
- Must be able to design code with minimal guidance and test major features, as well as work jointly with other team members to deliver complex changes.
- Must be able to effectively collaborate in a fast paced environment with multiple teams in a large organisation (software development, QA, Project/Release Management, Build and Release, etc.,).
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with testing Android application or Native AWS based products.
- Strong knowledge of test methodology and tools, with demonstrated experience in an QAE role
- Knowledge on testing frameworks and automation experience
- Coding experience with automated testing frameworks, tools, services, and physical devices
- Reporting skills, proficient in creating status reports based on automation results
- Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
- Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills
- Experienced in Agile or Scrum software development methodologies
- Experience working closely with development and business teams to communicate impacts and to understand business requirements.
- Experience with API automation testing including unit test automation frameworks