Quality Assurance Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

External job description
Amazon Kindle is a revolutionary reading device and one of the most innovative and fastest growing businesses at Amazon. We are seeking a passionate, hard-working, and talented quality assurance engineer who has experience testing mission critical software and reusable software libraries to help shape the future of eBooks.

We own the design, architecture, and implementation of a platform to enable reading innovation across file formats and operating systems. Our software supports Kindle customers on all major mobile platforms. Our engineers enjoy working as a team and welcome the opportunity to lead whenever possible.

The Role:

As a Quality Assurance Engineer working on rendering , you’ll work closely with product and engineering teams to develop and execute test plans that ensure our customers get what they want. You’ll navigate through complex code to better understand features and to ensure our software development engineers continue to deliver quality software. You’ll test code manually and with automated tools using black box, gray box, and white box testing techniques. You’ll debug complex problems using log files and will write automated tests with Java, Perl and other languages. You’ll be responsible for driving the software development process toward quality-centric methodologies.

· Demonstrated track record of delivering test automation, quality requirements, designing functional and performance test suites and producing deliverables that exceed commitments.
· Responsible for the architecture of test automation solutions, determining current limitations and compatibilities between subsystems, the selection of new concepts and methodology, and the development of major routines and utilities.
· Generation of metrics and information that improve development practices on the team
· Review and critique of technical requirements and software design specifications and software implementation.
· Instilling best practices for test suite automation and frameworks and documentation, making sure designs meet requirements, and delivering high quality software on tight schedules.

To learn more about the Kindle team at Amazon, visit www.amazon.com/careers/kindle and apply now.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Basic qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in computer science or a related field
· 2+ years of software QA experience
· Strong knowledge of QA methodology and tools
· Experience in writing test plans, test automation, or test cases
· Background in test automation using Java and applicable languages.
· Working knowledge of common automation frameworks such as JUnit or TestNG
· Experience in programming languages like python, Java.
· Ability to understand technical specifications and analyze log files
· Excellent written and spoken communication