Sr Quality Assurance Engineer, AFT Platform Engineering & Services

Amazon Inc.; Factoria (WA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Sr Quality Assurance Engineer for the AFT Platform Engineering & Services team in Bellevue, WA. You will drive quality across the product lifecycle, collaborating with developers, product managers, and support to ensure robust, scalable software delivery.

You will define and implement quality gates, improve test strategies, and lead QAEs to deliver high-quality results across component, system, and workflow levels for our learning systems serving millions of users.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of quality assurance engineering experience.
• 4+ years delivering test frameworks and leading QA projects.
• Experience with automation and manual testing.

Responsibilities

• Drive quality across the organization with a holistic plan beyond test execution.
• Develop and implement test strategies for web-based software products.
• Lead QA teams, define quality SLAs, and improve processes/tools.
• Create and present quality/test data to stakeholders and distill requirements into test plans.
• Collaborate with developers, PMs and support to ensure high quality delivery.

Skills

QA methodologies

Test strategy

Test automation

Manual testing

Distributed systems

Test case management

Cross-functional collaboration

Team leadership

Communication skills

Tools

TestRail

TCM

Job description

Sr Quality Assurance Engineer, AFT Platform Engineering & Services

Job ID: 10577164 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Do you want to share your passion for technology? Are you looking for your next challenge? Join us in building and maintaining the learning systems that are reaching millions of Customers, Partners, and Users as they learn how to maximize tools and services. We are constantly evolving our core systems to enable our customers in their journey to gain technical expertise.

As a QA Engineer-III on the team, you will collaborate with developers, product managers and customer support to identify unambiguous software requirements, understand all features and their implementation details, understand customer usage models and then develop and execute strategies to deliver that software into our customers' hands in an efficient fashion with a high degree of confidence in its quality.

Our preferred candidate possesses a demonstrated ability in driving a team towards higher quality delivery, not just through test execution but through organizational influence; including defining product’s quality SLAs, implementing/improving process and tools, and increasing the visibility of the product quality. Our QAEs develop and drive the team to implement effective test strategies to assess the quality of the system under test, at multiple levels including component, subsystem, system, and at workflow, and in multiple verticals including function, performance, scale security, and internationalization. Also s/he understands and affects the overall product delivery and operations chain with best quality practices such as pipeline health assessment, mirror testing. As a QAE on the team you will be a key voice in the design, coding, deployment, and post-deployment phases. You'll define and implement quality gates for code changes, ensuring our users' experience will be continually maintained or improved, while enhancing development efficiency/effectiveness with clearly delineated quality SLAs and timely presented data on confidence levels on quality.

Key job responsibilities

• Experience with driving quality across an organization as a holistic plan and not just test execution
• Strong experience with QA methodologies and software testing techniques and tools, especially for web-based software products.
• Demonstrated experience in test strategy development, test planning, test designing, and test execution.
• Ability write, debug and troubleshoot code in at least one modern programming language such as Java, Python, Javascript, or C#
• Experience testing distributed systems
• Experience using test cases management tools (like TCM or TestRail), issues management tools
• Experience working closely with development and business teams to present quality/test data, read business data, negotiate on the scope of test coverage/timing/resources, and to actively pull business requirements out of data/partners and distill them to test/risk strategy.
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Experience leading small teams of QAEs

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years of quality assurance engineering experience
• 4+ 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 automation testing
• Experience in manual testing

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of UI Automation (preferably on mobile platforms) experience
• Knowledge of at least one modern object-oriented programming language such as C++, Java, Objective C

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, WA, Bellevue - 133,300.00 - 180,300.00 USD annually

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Veterans, military spouses, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.