Amazon – Quality Assurance Engineer , AWS Software Development – Arlington, VA

Job Description

Job title: Quality Assurance Engineer , AWS Software Development

Company: Amazon


Job description: DESCRIPTION

Job summary

AWS has the most services and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider-from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases-to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. Whether its Identity features such as access management and sign on, cryptography, console, builder & developer tools, and even projects like automating all of our contractual billing systems, AWS Platform is always innovating with the customer in mind. The AWS Platform team sustains over 750 million transactions per second.

Want to build innovative, cutting edge automation in a startup like environment backed by the strong infrastructure you get with AWS and Amazon? Want the ability to bring new ideas to the table and drive the success of your ideas across our AWS org and beyond? The AWS Commerce Platform is hiring an experienced QAE that can raise our quality bar while working hand-in-hand with our world class engineering team.

The AWS Commerce Platform provides the back and front-end services that enable AWS customers to purchase AWS services and understand and manage their infrastructure costs. Our teams tackle some of the hardest scalability, performance, and distributed computing challenges in the world. We process trillions of events per month using stream processing techniques (Kinesis), process billions of line items via map reduce (EMR), and manage artifacts through the latest in database technologies (DynamoDB and Aurora). We process big data and provide tools for customers to interactively understand their bills. We also provide the analytics that let customers manage billions of dollars of IT usage and spending. Because we sit at the nexus of all AWS services and interact directly with end-customers, we also work closely across all AWS teams to ensure that we offer a great customer experience.

Our team is looking for someone that has passion for driving high quality product experiences. As an experienced QAE in AWS Commerce Platform, you will to work closely with product and engineering teams to drive and execute test activities that ensure the best customer experience, you will analyze designs and code to develop comprehensive test strategies. You will automate the testing of workflows using our test case management and testing automation tools. This includes developing automated tests using black box and white box testing techniques. You should be able to understand software internals, debug problems using log files, and write automated tests with Scripting tools and/or user-level automated tools in a fast space, startup like environment.

As part of this role, you’ll get opportunities to work with our Senior Engineers, SDMs and Program Managers to define scope and deliverables on automation projects that you’ll lead. If this description is matching what you’re looking for, we want to hear from you so we can start building together.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life-both in and outside of work.

We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, job level etc. Your manager can also help you find a mentor or two, because two is better than one. In addition to formal mentors, we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members.

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Key job responsibilities

• Work with PMs and Devs to review user stories, build test plans and test cases
• Execute test cases and log/report defects
• Help expand functional regression suites

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or relative work experience
• 3+ years working in software testing environments
• Demonstrated ability to draft software engineering test strategies and plans
• Understanding of software engineering and test automation best practices
• Solid knowledge of databases, SQL, and scripting languages
• Experience in building quality tooling and managing infrastructure
• Proficiency in, at least, one programming language such as C++, Java, or Python

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of overall technical experience Knowledge of the different phases of a test lifecycle and the testing methodologies
• Ability to troubleshoot and update automation scripts
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Strong experience operating in Agile/Scrum, DevOps, or other results driven SDLCs
• Strong organizational skills and ability to handle competing priorities
• Strong attention to detail and problem solving skills
• Proven track record of understanding ambiguous problems and driving practical solutions
• Strong verbal/written communication skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams
• Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience with Java or another OO language
• Experience with Continuous Integration

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit .

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.


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Location: Arlington, VA