Quality Assurance Engineer Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Amazon introduced the first Kindle in 2007 -- at that time, it offered 90,000 eBooks and sold out 5.5 hours after the announcement. Since then, we have expanded to become the best-selling e-reader family in the world. We have also produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, and more recently Amazon Echo and Alexa, the voice service that powers Echo and other devices so customers can play music, control their smart homes, and get information, news, weather, and more, using just their voice.

Our team is improving the setup experience of Amazon devices -- just like those above -- through a collection of SDKs and Cloud Services that simplifies the steps necessary to bring a brand-new device online.

QA Engineers test code at the user level, both manually and with automated tools. Our QA Engineers use black box, gray box, and white box testing techniques; they are able to understand software internals, debug problems using log files, and write automated tests and/or user-level test automation tools.

Software QA Engineers work with Software Development Engineers to understand features and technical implementation. Software QA Engineers also work with groups such as Product Management, User Experience Design, and Customer Support to understand customer usage models and develop test plans and test suites that approximate real-world environments and regression tests. Software QA Engineers are also responsible for driving the software development process toward quality-centric methodologies.

Responsibilities:

* Responsible for development of test strategies and creation of appropriate test harnesses.
* Will work with a team of quality engineering professions to ensure the highest quality product delivery
* Evaluate product functionality and create test strategies and test cases to assess product quality.
* Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
* Experience developing in a Linux environment and in utilizing virtual machines
* Expert in software quality and testing methodologies
* Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment