Software QA Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

Work hard. Have fun. Make history.

The Role:

As a Software Quality Assurance Engineer, you will work on Fire OS platform testing. You will join the team of hands-on, proactive, self-motivated and seasoned software quality assurance professionals. In this role, you will:
· Create test plans and test cases
· Review user interfaces for conformity and functionality
· Efficiently execute test cases across all functional areas of our products
· Review product user interface for conformity to design guidelines
· Find, isolate, document, regress and track bugs through resolution
· Interpret and report testing results and be a vocal proponent for quality in every phase of the development process
· Work with software development engineers to understand the overall technical architecture and how each feature is implemented

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience with embedded systems, consumer devices, or mobile apps
· Hands-on experience in testing Android-based devices
· Experience programmatically testing products, measuring test coverage, developing the best automation, driving testability and diagnostic ability into the product, while promoting best practices in quality areas.
· Fluency in programmatic-level testing and user-level automation
· Isolating test failures in complex software systems
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of working effectively with development engineering and other functions
· Solid understanding of QA tool development chains and environments
· Shows creativity and initiative to improve product coverage and effectiveness
· Demonstrated ability to operate and excel in an environment with short release cycles

Lab126 is part of the Amazon.com, Inc. group of companies and is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience in manual testing
· 4+ year of experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
· Experience in automation testing
· Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or equivalent
· Experience in Python
· 2+ years of demonstrated experience in black box and grey box testing
· Experience with standard QA and development tools
· Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations