Description

Amazon Digital Acceleration powers ordering, subscriptions, and device management for Prime, Amazon Video, Music, Audible, Alexa, and Kindle, amongst other digital businesses. We process billions of digital purchases every year and enable our digital businesses to grow their businesses worldwide. We are on a mission to be earth's best provider of one-time and recurring digital commerce, delivering a seamless and enjoyable post-purchase customer experience.

Work hard. Have fun. Make history.
We are seeking an experienced software development engineer in test. The ideal candidate is an innovative self-starter who is looking for an opportunity to be both an individual contributor and technical lead. You will be working across multiple organizations and services within Amazon to deliver the unique experience that we are creating.

To be successful you need to be flexible, comfortable operating with ambiguity and willing to develop quick proof of concepts. You will drive the technology forward and operate at all levels, diving deep into the details and provide key input into the product.

Key job responsibilities
SDEs at Amazon are able to understand software internals, debug code, automate repetitive tasks, and implement new tools and frameworks needed to streamline our quality process. You will work directly with both Software Development Engineers and Quality Assurance Engineers to understand project features, review technical designs, and implement automated tools that help deliver quality features with efficiency.
As an SDE in the team your primary responsibility will be of writing frameworks and tools to test products. It is a very unique and challenging role and provides immense opportunity to design and develop wide-reaching tools. It combines the "building" aspect of software design engineering with the "breaking" aspect of software test engineering. You’ll be writing code that automatically verifies the quality of the product.

A day in the life
In this role, you

Design and build the automated test frameworks and test suites for use in development and testing cycles

Design and develop tools which will help Developers/Testers.

Collaborating with development teams and your team peers to identify and prioritize opportunities for automation.

Participating in design and code inspections.

A successful candidate must have a solid history of delivering results, obsession with quality, be detail oriented, a team player, and have the ability to work in a fast-paced start-up like environment