Quality Assurance Tech. I

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon.com’s Detail Page team under Core Shopping is looking for a Software Quality Assurance Technician who can ensure high quality bar for our multi tiered, highly scalable applications that provide best possible online shopping and buying experience for our customers. Our team is comprised of talented developers, testers, program managers, designers and product managers tasked with singular goal to create world's best buying experience. We are looking for a talented, detail oriented, and enthusiastic QAE who is passionate about quality and is excited about the new cutting edge technology offered to consumers.

In this role, you will work on the newest test automation platform to enable testing across desktop and mobile devices. You will test production code both at the user level and platform level, both manually and with automated tools. You will not perform the tests as pure black box testers. Instead, you understand software internals, debug problems, and write automated tests with Java scripts or proprietary test scripts for automated tools. You will work with Software Development Engineers to understand features and technical implementation.

In addition, you will work on our software deployment process. Our software deployment process follows a strict testing and deployment procedure and guidelines to ensure the highest quality of software is produced and to ensure our customer is delighted with the shopping experiences.

Successful candidate must have a strong drive for results, obsession with quality, a team player, and has the ability to work in a fast-paced start-up like environment.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experiences with web based software deployment.
· Experiences with functional, performance, and stress testing.
· Experiences with UI and back-end testing.
· Working knowledge with a high level general purpose language such as Java, C++, or C#

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· BS in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience.
· 2+ years of QA experience.
· Strong knowledge of QA methodology and tools.
· Ability to understand technical specifications and analyze log files.
· Ability to author complex test scripts.
· Experience in UI & back-end testing and automation.
· Strong organizational skills, tracking multiple test executions simultaneously and are able to synthesize the results.
· Shows creativity and initiative to improve product coverage and effectiveness.