Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Echo Dot. What will you help us create?
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We are looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test to help automate next generation platforms. In this role you will work with system architects, QA engineers, software developers, program managers and hardware engineers to implement test automation and infrastructure development for our next generation applications and platforms which have a significant impact on our systems, our business and most importantly, our customers.
As a SDET champion on the engineering team, you will own the vision for test infrastructures, build frameworks that allow developers/SQA to easily write reliable tests, and invent new mechanisms for ensuring that every change we make can be deployed safely and quickly. You will help solve our most difficult challenges, and you will coach other engineers to foster a culture of relentless high-standards.
The ideal candidate for this role has a strong track record and proficiency in building efficient and innovative test tools. They are a pragmatic problem-solver with high judgment who brings an experienced perspective to balance quality and strategy trade-offs to meet the needs of Amazon Devices teams. They will bring clarity to complexity, probing assumptions, illuminating pitfalls with data, and fostering shared understanding. They have specialized knowledge analyzing test procedures, inspecting architectures and developing test infrastructure and tools that provide confidence in product quality.
Key job responsibilities
- Understanding how all elements of the system software ecosystem work together and developing QA approaches and tools that fit the overall strategy
- Responsible for development of test strategies and creation of appropriate test harnesses for Audio
- Providing test infrastructure to enable engineering teams to test and own quality of the services.
- Being a stakeholder of the release to ensure defects are fixed per SLA and end customer experience are protected and improved
- Development and Automation of Audio test plans, monitoring and reporting on test execution and quality metrics .
- Coordinating with offshore Quality Service team on test execution and sign-off
Basic Qualifications
- 4+ years of test automation frameworks and tools building experience
- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development testing experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Strong in Python, data structure and algorithm
- Expertise in Audio test automation and test methodologies
- Familiarity with various software technologies, methodologies and applied software engineering practices/standards such as Object Oriented Design (OOD), cloud software development and embedded software
Preferred Qualifications
- Deep hands-on technical expertise in automation, developing test frameworks, tools and APIs.
- Experience in Linux subsystem and testing.
- Experience in testing of Audio, Security, Machine Learning models.
- Experience in quality assurance for consumer electronics
- A deep understanding of automation testing by leading engineers who can write automation scripts/programs that will aid in automated testing
- Understanding or experience working with AI models and agents
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