Quality Assurance Engineer - Amazon Dev Ctr India - Chennai

Job ID: 414590 | Amazon Dev Ctr India - Chennai

DESCRIPTION
Quality Assurance Engineers at Amazon test cutting edge applications and products at the user level and code level, both manually and with automated tools. Our QAEs are able to understand software internals, debug problems using log files, and write automated tests with Scripting tools and/or user-level automated tools. QAEs at Amazon are excellent individual contributors capable of taking up tasks from start to completion with minimal help. QAEs would be responsible for understanding the domain and the product in detail and coming up with the test strategy/planning, coming up with the test cases, driving the test case sign-off processes with the stakeholders, contributing to code level Unit tests, test execution and reporting.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Passion for testing and quality.
• Curiosity, patience and desire to learn.
• Critical thinking about product behavior and user impact.
• Ability to see the “big picture” of a complex system.
• Strong root cause analysis experience.
• Schedule estimation (of tasks), and on-time delivery against those schedules.
• Strong understanding of QA processes and concepts including test case preparation, and testing methodologies, agile a plus.
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.
• Ability to work with technical and non-technical business owners.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience
• 5+ years of QA experience
• Strong knowledge of QA methodology and tools
• Ability to understand technical specifications and analyze log files
• Experience in Java/Perl/Python based automation and/or user-level
• Knowledge of UNIX environment and Shell scripting is desired
• Experience in Unit Testing APIs like JUnit, HttpUnit is desired.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

BS in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience

5+ years of QA experience

Strong knowledge of QA methodology and tools

Ability to understand technical specifications and analyze log files

Experience in Java/Perl/Python based automation and/or user-level

Knowledge of UNIX environment and Shell scripting is desired

Experience in Unit Testing APIs like JUnit, HttpUnit is desired.

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