Amazon Quality Assurance Engineer II WW Prime - Member Growth Tech 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

163590249

Key job responsibilities
Our QAEs test code at both the service and user level, using a variety of black box, gray box, and white box testing techniques. As a QA Engineer, you will innovate our test strategy across multiple dependencies, locales and device types and implement highly scalable automation to enable both UI (web and device level) and back end testing.You will work to be able to understand software internals, debug complex problems including performance bottlenecks, and write automated tests in and/or using existing automated tools.You must have experience in diagnosing project release problems and taking corrective action, such as escalating as needed, to resolve and achieve results. Our QAEs are also responsible for driving our software development process toward quality-centric methodologies and for reporting on test progress, metrics, and issues.As a quality assurance engineer, you will/may:
- Use technical knowledge to create, execute, and maintain test plans and automation involving one or more product components and/or features- Perform initial defect triage and root cause analysis, and escalate roadblocks/risks
- Troubleshoot automation failures and isolate bugs to help developers research the root cause of defectsKey job responsibilities
- 4+ years of experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
- Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in math/statistics/engineering
- Experience in manual testing
- Experience in automation testing
- Knowledge of test methodologies, software testing life cycle
- Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (e.g., Shell, Bash, Perl, Python, JavaScript, or Ruby)
- Experience with industry technologies (e.g., Selenium, Junit, TestNG, and other open source tools)A day in the life
A QAE II on the team is also required to participate in hiring and mentorship of peers.

- 4+ years of quality assurance engineering experience
- Experience in manual testing
- Experience in automation testing
- Experience as QA lead on medium to large sized projects

- Experience in gathering test requirements to create detailed test plans and defining quality metrics to measure product quality