Quality Assurance Engineer Ii Job in Amazon

DESCRIPTION

Are you tech savvy and looking for challenging opportunities to expand your horizon and learn new technologies? Are you creative to develop automation tests that are maintainable and reusable across product generations? We are looking for Quality Assurance Engineers to support test automation development for Amazon's Digital products like the Kindle eReaders, Fire Tablets, FireTV and Amazon Echo.
Quality Assurance Engineers at Amazon test cutting edge applications and products at the user level and code level, both manually and with automated tools. Our QAEs are not pure black box testers, they are able to understand software internals, debug problems using log files, and write automated tests with Scripting tools and/or user-level automated tools. QAEs at Amazon are excellent individual contributors capable of taking up tasks from start to completion with minimal help. QAEs would be responsible for understanding the domain and the product in detail and coming up with the test strategy/planning, coming up with the test cases, driving the test case sign-off processes with the stakeholders, contributing to code level Unit tests, test execution and reporting.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

4+ year of experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
Experience in manual testing
Experience in automation testing
Bachelor's Degree
Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of technical education and experience
Experience in handheld devices is desired
Knowledge of UNIX environment and Shell scripting is desired.
Experience in Java/Perl/Python based automation and/or user-level
Ability to understand technical specifications and analyze log files
Strong knowledge of QA methodology and tools

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent
Customer scenario testing experience
Reporting skills, proficient in creating status reports based on automation results
Demonstrated expertise in testing methodologies, experience with standard QA and development tools, and the ability to operate within short release cycles
Product experience with wireless consumer electronics
Highly methodical test discipline, applicable to all product UI
Shows creativity and initiative to improve product coverage and effectiveness
Experience with API automation testing including unit test automation frameworks
Experience with Android, iOS or other mobile application development or testing
Experience working in a UNIX/Linux environment and utilizing virtual machines
Knowledge of industry standard test automation tools and experience developing product test harnesses
Experience with open source tools and resources
Familiar with hardware fundamentals