Key job responsibilities

- Build and improve software and tools by translating business, functional and design requirements and problems into robust, scalable, and supportable test solutions.

- Be a champion for the user: Insist on the highest standards and help create functional and engaging features that delight customers.

- Mentor junior software development engineers in test and being pioneer for building the effective test team and extensible test solutions.

A day in the life

As a Test Engineer, you will be responsible for establishing new test frameworks and processes for testing a brand new device. To do this, you will have the most advanced tools at your disposal. You will be responsible for looking to the future and identifying what the team will need to test experiences that were not thought possible today.

About the team

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, Amazon Echo and Amazon Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of test automation frameworks and tools building experience

- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development testing experience

- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

- Experience building test automation frameworks and tools

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field

- 1+ years of experience in Python

- Excellent troubleshooting skills.

- Conviction to stand up for quality issues.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

- Knowledge of industry standard test automation tools and experience in developing product test harnesses and instrumenting products to gather test results.

- Experience with test driven development and establishing unit test infrastructures.

- Experience automating the validating of modern user interfaces and messaging infrastructures.

- Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment.

- Experience interacting and coordinating test activities amongst multiple teams.

- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, evaluate alternatives, and develop processes and tools as needed to support the organization.