Quality Assurance Engineer I

Job description

DESCRIPTION

The India Consumer Business (ICB) Technology team builds products and services that solve unique customer needs in Amazon's fastest growing marketplace. We are a multi-billion dollar business with a huge potential to grow in a trillion dollar market.

Our engineers own the complete consumer and seller experience for Amazon India, work on a wide range of technologies (including AWS and EC2) and build and operate highly scalable, low latency mobile first products and services. We are solving last mile engineering challenges around Mobile, Product Discovery, Delivery, Payments, Logistics, Customer experience, Seller experience and more.

If you are looking for an opportunity to lead multiple QA teams and build creative technology solutions that positively impact hundreds of millions of international customers, and relish large ownership and diverse technologies, join our team today!

As a QAE, you will design, build and own mobile-first features and programs that will delight our India customers. You will lead the team in delivering high quality, best in class software that will delight our customers.

Responsibilities
· Responsible for the overall QA life cycle of the solution and manage complex projects with significant bottom line impact
· Work with dev managers and product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide compelling capabilities for the seller community on amazon.in marketplace that helps them succeed in their business goals.
· Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
· Project management - prioritization, planning of projects and features, Stakeholder management and tracking of external commitments
· Operational Excellence - monitoring & operation of production services
· Career management and development of direct reports

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· BS in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience
· four or more years of QA experience
· 2+ years of hands-on experience with defining test strategy, writing test plans, and designing and executing software tests
Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build and release processes, continuous deployment, and test suite development and maintenance
· Strong knowledge of QA methodology and tools
· Ability to understand technical specifications and analyze log files
· Experience in Perl/Python scripting and user-level automation
· Competency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, C# or C++
· Comfortable communicating cross-functionally and across management levels in formal and informal settings
· Strong organizational skills, tracking multiple test executions simultaneously and be able to synthesize the results
· Shows creativity and initiative to improve product coverage and effectiveness.