Quality Assurance Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon.com's Social Media team is looking for experienced, innovative and results-oriented Quality Assurance Engineer (QAE) to test scalable software solutions and services, which range from high regression features to experimental products.
The team's responsibilities include mining social data for customers and using it to bootstrap personalization and recommendations; utilizing the connections to offer a better shopping experience; and build tools and applications to represent Amazon in conversations offsite in order to engage with customers and drive more to the site.
Come join us, in re-defining some of the core tenets of online shopping, at the earth's most customer centric company!
Role Description:
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 would be responsible for understanding the domain and the product in detail and coming up with the test strategy/planning, coming up with the test cases, driving the test case sign-off processes with the stakeholders, contributing to code level unit tests, test execution and reporting.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own QA process and test quality of the products we develop. Design and build automated test frameworks and test suites. Utilize innovative testing technologies to develop product's testing strategy.
- Participation in design and code inspections.
- Perform manual testing, the scope of which will encompass all functionalities of services as a prequel to automation.
- API level testing.
- Analyze test logs; create test reports, co-ordinate with stakeholders.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

* Engineering in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience.
* 2+ years of QA experience
* Demonstrated experience in test planning, test design, test strategy, and test execution of highly complex systems.
* Ability to design and plan testing conditions, test scripts, and test data sets to ensure appropriate and adequate coverage and control.
* Strong analytical and problem solving skills
* Demonstrated experience in writing clean scripts/code quickly.
* Experience in web application and device test automation using Selenium, QTP, Robotium, Appium or any equivalent tool/s.
* Understanding of QA methodologies, life cycle and processes.
* Experience working closely with development and business teams to communicate problem impacts and to understand business requirements.
* Strong organizational skills, able to track multiple test executions simultaneously and synthesize the results.
* Comfortable communicating cross-functionally and across management levels in formal and informal settings to report on test progress, metrics, issues, and risks