DESCRIPTION
Amazon internships are full-time positions, and interns should expect to work Monday-Friday, up to 40 hours per week typically between 8am-5pm. Specific team norms around working hours will be communicated by your manager. Interns should not have conflicts such as classes or other employment during the Amazon work-day.
Applicants should have a minimum of one quarter/semester/trimester remaining in their studies after their internship concludes. By applying to this position, your application will be considered for all Quality Assurance Engineer roles at all locations we hire for in the United States including but not limited to: Greater Seattle Area (Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond), Greater Bay Area (San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara), Greater DMV (DC, MD, VA), Austin (TX), New York City (NY), Minneapolis (MN).
Key job responsibilities
As a quality assurance engineer, you will/may:
• Use technical knowledge to create, execute, and maintain software test plans and automation involving one or more product components and/or features.
• Create and maintain automation scripts, make configuration changes, and modify/extend test cases to accommodate feature releases.
• Develop test solutions, scripts, and simple tools to reduce manual effort, audit component, or improve feature quality.
• Troubleshoot automation failures and isolate bugs to help developers research the root cause of defects.
• Analyze change requests and provide recommendations on how change might impact test scope and/or product behavior.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Currently working towards a Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other equivalent technical discipline with an expected conferral date between October 2024 – December 2027.
• Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, Perl).
• Knowledge of software-testing techniques (e.g., equivalence class partitioning), and software testing life cycle.
• Experience with technologies (e.g., Selenium, Junit, TestNG, and other open source tools).
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Enrolled in a Master’s Degree or advanced technical degree.
• Previous technical internship(s), if applicable.
• Experience in four core software-testing techniques: 1) equivalence class partitioning; 2) boundary value testing; 3) verifying each requirement; and 4) state transition.
• Experience executing and maintaining black box test cases.
• Experience troubleshooting issues and root cause analysis.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Seattle, WA
Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products and subscriptions in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) segments. It sells merchandise and content purchased for resale from third-party sellers through physical stores and online stores.
The company also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, and Echo devices; provides Kindle Direct Publishing, an online service that allows independent authors and publishers to make their books available in the Kindle Store; and develops and produces media content.
In addition, it offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products on its Websites, as well as their own branded Websites; and programs that allow authors, musicians, filmmakers, skill and app developers, and others to publish and sell content. Further, the company provides compute, storage, database, and other AWS services, as well as compute, storage, database offerings, fulfillment, publishing, digital content subscriptions, advertising, and co-branded credit card agreement services.
Additionally, it offers Amazon Prime, a membership program, which provides free shipping of various items; access to streaming of movies and TV episodes; and other services. It serves consumers, sellers, developers, enterprises, and content creators. Amazon.com, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Volkswagen AG. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.