Quality Assurance Engineer, Amazon
Global Engineering Insights & Software Tools
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of quality assurance engineering experience
- Experience in automation testing
- Experience in manual testing
- Experience as QA lead on medium to large sized projects
- BS degree in computer science or equivalent
Desirable
- Experience with at least one automated test framework like Selenium or Appium
- Experience in gathering test requirements to create detailed test plans and defining quality metrics to measure product quality
What the job involves
- This is your chance to get in on the ground floor with the Global Engineering Insights & Software Tools (GEIST) tech team that is shifting the paradigm for engineering services with disruptive experiences
- The GEIST organization supports a vast portfolio of buildings within the Amazon network and the build out standards and designs
- We are looking for a seasoned Quality Assurance Engineer to serve as the quality lead and strategy owner for cross-functional projects, scope test requirements, and lead in creating quality test plans
- You will get the opportunity to define quality metrics for complex products, and identify trends to prevent future defects
- You will work closely with Engineering, Product and Technical Program teams as you develop high quality test plans for new features
- As a QAE, you will also get multiple opportunities to show your leadership skills and recommend improvements to the way systems are designed and tested across GEIST teams
- Successful members of this team collaborate effectively to solve problems, implement new solutions, and deliver successfully against high operational standards
- In this role, you will have the freedom (and encouragement) to experiment, improve, invent, and innovate on behalf of our customers
- You will have the satisfaction of being able to look back and say you were a key contributor to something special from its earliest stages
- Create test strategy, write test plans and design test cases
- Help define and lead the Quality Assurance process
- Implement best practices; including a variety of different testing protocols, tools and metrics
- Work closely with the multiple development teams to assure test coverage
- Participate in Agile standup planning sessions
- Promote QA productivity through automation, tools, and other best practices
- Assist in building tools and frameworks for automated testing
- Work with remote teams to enable delivery of test artifacts
- Execute functional, regression tests, performance and stress testing
- A typical day for a Quality Assurance Engineer (QAE) at Amazon involves a mix of testing, collaboration, and process improvement activities
- This includes, Test Planning and Design, Test Execution, Bug Identification and Reporting, Automation and Maintenance, Monitoring and Analyzing Results, Documentation and Reporting, and Process Improvements
- The GEIST team serves as the software solution team to all Global Engineering needs, working with its customers to set a consolidated Tech strategy, and prioritizing investments to best serve their needs and our bottom line
- The GEIST team is responsible for the sustainment of a large product suite ranging from Planning & Forecasting applications to robust in-flight management of field execution users. These systems are leveraged by both internal and external users around the globe
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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