Software Dev Engineer II-TEST, Amazon Health
DESCRIPTION
We're on a journey to build something new! Come join our team and build new discovery and shopping experiences of health products. We're looking for a talented Software Dev Engineer II-TEST to join our team of product managers, designers, and engineers to conceive, design, and develop innovative health-shopping experiences for our customers.
As an SDET, you would enjoy a fast-paced environment where you can obsess over customers by creating scalable automation solutions to improve the overall quality of testing and partner team operational work.
Our SDETs work with Software Development Engineers, Designers, and Product Managers to understand our systems, processes and develop robust automation framework(s) that support Functional, Performance as well as API level testing and would also support QAEs in extending automation coverage by writing test scripts and utilities that enable the testers and developers approximate real-world environments and regression tests, and driving the software development process towards quality-centric methodologies.
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Key job responsibilities
The successful Software Development Test Engineer will be obsessed with customer experience, quality improvement, and challenge the status quo. In this role, you will:
- Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of test solutions using new or existing technologies that test major portions of software (e.g., significant component, set of features, applications or services) for large-scale, and/or highly complex software.
- Influence the design and write a significant portion of the code.
- Ensure work is consistently high quality (e.g., maintainable, reliable, efficient, etc.) and incorporates best practices.
- Identify problems and propose solutions, taking on projects that identify and mitigate risk while measuring software quality.
- Improve your team’s automation of development, testing and deployment.
- Design, develop and execute test plans and reporting on test execution.
- Coordinate test approaches, test cases, and test methodology with remote teams.
- Dive deep into our testing methodologies to transform manual quality processes to highly automated quality solutions.
- Train new teammates about your products’ customers, what your software does, how it is constructed, tested, operated, and how it fits into the bigger picture.
A day in the life
As a Software Dev Engineer II-TEST on this team, you will take a lead role in driving the development of maintainable, reliable automation deliverables that would withstand the test of time. You will be working closely with Product Managers, Sr. Engineers, Quality Engineers, Technical Program Managers, and highly motivated peers. You will collaborate with teams across Amazon on the planning and execution of complex and highly-technical projects with high impact and visibility.
About the team
Amazon’s mission is to make it dramatically easier for customers to access the healthcare products and services they need to get and stay healthy. Towards this mission, we (Health Storefront and Shared Tech) are building the technology, products and services, that help customers find, buy, and engage with the healthcare solutions they need.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- A Bachelor's or a Master's degree in Computer science, Software engineering or a related field
- Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals and data structures.Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- 8+ years developing automation in at least one of languages - Java and/or Python and/or Ruby
- Expertise designing, building and operating low-maintenance testing frameworks and automation tools.
- Ability to lead projects and drive them to completion in a fast paced and agile development environment.
- Experience in testing services, web applications, mobile apps, and APIs, including overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Experience debugging, diagnosing and troubleshooting complex production software issues.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with Android, iOS or other mobile application development or testing
- Experience with AWS Services, deployment tools and processes
- Expertise in performance and load testing (Jmeter, Gatling, etc).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to technical and non-technical leaders.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor junior software engineers in all aspects of their engineering skill-sets.
- Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly
- Experience influencing software engineering best practices within your team
- A deep understanding QA methodologies, life cycle and processes and multiple forms of software testing: component, regression, functional, stress, performance testing, etc.
- Expert in all aspects of testing strategy, planning, process definition, test data management and defect management.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.