Amazon Hiring for Quality Assurance Engineer III, Device OS at Chennai, TennesseeIndia Full Time

Description

You are a stakeholder to the quality of software in Amazon. You build software and tools for testing Device OS software that will ship on the next generation of Amazon Devices.

This is a high-impact role that owns organizational level quality improvements. As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you will drive new Quality initiatives, build new test frameworks and processes for testing device software. You will establish quality metrics and best practices for the team. You will lead the team by example. You will bring new ideas and innovate to build/leverage as needed. You will be responsible for looking to the future and identifying what the team will need.

Key job responsibilities

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the QA process, suggesting and implementing process enhancements.

• Design and develop comprehensive test strategies, frameworks, and methodologies to ensure the quality and reliability of software products.

• Collaborate and influence cross-functional teams including developers, product managers, and project managers to understand software quality requirements and design effective test strategies.

• Define release planning and provide input on the readiness of software for production deployment.

• Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers, providing guidance, technical expertise, and ensuring adherence to best practices.

• Work with component teams to identify the pain points in their area and provide technical guidance.

• Create, maintain, and execute test cases, test scripts, and test scenarios for various software components, including functional, regression, performance, and security testing.

• Identify and document defects, issues, and potential areas of improvement in the software development process.

• Perform root cause analysis of complex issues and work with the development team to resolve issues and enhance the overall product quality.

• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in QA and testing, and apply this knowledge to continuously improve testing processes.

• Collaborate with automation engineers to implement and maintain automated testing frameworks and test suites.

• Define key metrics for measuring and reporting on the quality of software products and test effectiveness.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of quality assurance engineering experience

• 5+ years of delivering test frameworks, test tools, leading the QA projects and initiatives experience

• Knowledge of QA methodology and tools, with demonstrated experience in an QAE role

• Experience in manual testing

• Experience in automation testing

• Experience scripting or coding

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in delivering test frameworks, test tools, leading the QA projects and initiatives

• Knowledge of at least one modern object-oriented programming language such as C++, Java, Objective C

• Experience programmatically testing products, measuring test coverage, developing the best automation, driving testability and diagnostic

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