Job Description

DESCRIPTION

We are a visionary team of techies looking to boldly code where no one has coded before. We help customers to learn, shop, and discover new places around the world"?all from the comfort of home. We are Amazon Explore. Amazon Explore is an interactive live streaming service that allows our customers to learn, shop and discover new places right from where they are. The world, at your fingertips! Come and join us in building unique and world's most customer centric experiences

As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will be working with a unique and gifted team developing exciting products for customers and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

As part of this job, you'll be working alongside some of the best engineers at Amazon acting as a customer advocate. You would develop test plans that mirror customer usage patterns enabling faster defect identification. We are focused on launching a world class product which is reliable, scalable and highly performant, and we need your help to fail fast and improve iteratively.

You'll have opportunity to work with a variety of technologies across front-end applications and back-end services. In this role, you're expected to operate autonomously in ensuring quality of the product being a grey-box tester across various integration points, understand software internals, and derive diagnostic information from service logs.

The ideal candidate for this role has a strong commitment to team work, enjoys working on cutting edge technology, is customer-centric, and thrives on the challenge of building something new that will eventually operate at world-wide scale.

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14
Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and
professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren't focused on how many hours you
spend at work or online. Instead, we're happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well balanced
life"?both in and outside of work.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews.
We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future


BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

? BS degree, preferably in Computer Science, engineering or other technical field
? 4+ years of software quality assurance engineering experience
? Knowledge of QA methodology and industry-standard testing and bug tracking tools
? Experience with one scripting language preferably Java
? Experience driving quality through process, instrumentation, requirements and testing
? Experience developing test strategies, test plans and test cases
? Experience communicating cross-functionally and across management levels in formal and informal settings

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

? Experience with Selenium or other automation framework
? Experience with usability best practices; able to influence and improve user experience
? Experience with Android, iOS or other mobile application development and/or testing
? Excellent verbal and written communication skills
? Familiarity with ReactJS, WebRTC, and GraphQL
? Meets/exceeds Amazon's leadership principles requirements for this role
? Meets/exceeds Amazon's functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.