Do you want to own cutting-edge technology, solve new problems that didn’t exist before, and have the ability to see the impact of your successes? Amazon is shaping the future of digital video entertainment. We seek engineers who can help us shape and develop new video streaming capabilities for Amazon. This is an exciting opportunity for a rock-star engineer who wants to work in a start-up like environment and is passionate about digital media and new customer experiences. You should be comfortable diving deep into technical architectures and requirements, be able to quickly identify solutions to challenges discovered during development, and ready to work with latest mobile technology. Prior experience in building solutions for video streaming, mobile app or advertising is required. Successful candidates will thrive in environments that leverage agile planning techniques, encourage and reward creative design, intelligent risk taking, and find innovative ways to leverage cutting edge technology. This is a unique opportunity to work with some of the best Engineers at Amazon and be part of a rapidly growing initiative which is going to become a huge area of growth for Amazon's Advertising business and pioneer the usage of new technology at Amazon scale.
Key job responsibilities
- Serve as an SME for the project that you are handling - Lead through example and build a culture of quality. - Coach and mentor developers on the team for quality practices and hold them accountable to the highest quality standards - Define test metrics, lead automation efforts and constantly explore new test automation tools and methods. - Exercise strong planning skills - Establish processes and build tools to maintain automation scripts and generate regular test reports - Understand component test strategies for product architecture, making technical and risk trade-off decisions at test framework level - Build load, stress, and soak testing for the system - Contribute to the Quality roadmap for the product with Automation First approach.
Basic qualifications
- 9+ year of experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer - Experience in manual testing - Experience in automation testing - Experience with test automation tools, schedulers, frameworks, and harnesses. - Bachelor's Degree - Experience in OTT / Video Streaming industry
Preferred qualifications
- 10+ year of experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer - Fluency in at least one modern programming language such as C, C++, Java, C#, Python or PERL. - Proven experience in measuring and reporting quality and driving improvements across team. - Ability to understand functional/technical specifications and analyze data and logs. - Fluent in at least one scripting language, and the ability to read Java code. - Understanding the scope of different types of testing: unit, integration, functional and regression tests - Experience testing both frontend applications and backend services, including functional API testing, integration testing, and UI functionality and usability testing - Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features and technical designs - Experience with quality metrics and clear status reporting - Experience in testing OTT / video streaming industry specifically in one of the three areas: 1) Personalization and ML or Transcoding technology 2) Experience working in Android & Player Tech 3) Experience building CMS systems & Video Catalogue Management systems
