Solutions Quality Assurance Engineer Amazon
Herndon, VA

Job Description

The Solutions Builder team works in collaboration with Sales, Marketing, Business Development, ProServe, Service teams, and other key stakeholders to communicate AWS architectural best practices and develop repeatable, prescriptive solutions for the platform. The team produces automated, standardized deployment packages and solutions-related documentation to enable customers to more easily and confidently build AWS solutions, and help shorten the sales cycle for AWS sales teams.

The Role

The Solutions Team is looking for a Quality Assurance Technician (QAT) to work on testing Solutions at the user level, both manually and with automated tools. QATs at Amazon are excellent individual contributors capable of taking on tasks of test case execution from start to completion with minimal help. QATs are responsible for understanding the solution in detail and updating the test case tool with test execution results. They write and maintain black-box test cases based on well- defined feature requirements, writing tests cases and test plans that are high quality, high value, and maintainable. QATs also have experience with gray box, and white box testing techniques; they are able to understand software internals, debug problems using log files and reproduce errant product behavior to assist developers or other testers and identify, track, and accurately report defects found. QATs produce good reproducible defect reports to verify fixed bugs are truly fixed. Develop and execute automated tests and test plans.

Responsibilities

* Help establish the overall QAT practice and process for the Solutions team
* Creation and execution of test plans
* Execution of a set of test cases
* Identifying critical bugs
* Delivering reproducible defect reports that include steps to reproduce, logs, clear description of actual results vs. expected, helpful title / summary
* Gaining knowledge of the features and detailed functional requirements of the work well enough to execute your assigned tests
* Prioritization of own work with help from your manager, operating with limited discretion.
* Keeping team members informed of issues that affect you and escalating concerns promptly and appropriately with limited guidance from your manager or team members.
* Ability to manage directly assigned tasks and on-call duties gracefully