Job Description

DESCRIPTIONAmazon Alexa teams Worldwide is a group of talented technical professionals that are empowered and driven to build world class experiences for customers. We are looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to work on the moderate to complex solutions and services. Ideal candidate should have proven expertise in scalable systems, working across technologies, and mentoring junior engineers.Key job responsibilities
Quality Assurance Engineers test code at the user level, both manually and with automated tools. Our SQA Engineers are not pure black box testers; they are more grey box, able to understand software internals, debug problems using log files, and write automated tests with Java and/or user-level automated tools. SQA Engineers work with Software Development Engineers to understand features and technical implementation. SQA Engineers should also work with groups such as Product Management, User Interaction, and Customer Support to understand customer usage models and develop test plans and suites that approximate real-world environments and regression tests and driving the software development process towards quality-centric methodologies.
Responsibilities:

• Utiilize innovative testing technologies to develop product's testing strategy and end to end test plan.
• Participation in design and code inspections.
• Working with SDEs to understand product architecture and features
• API level testing using automation tools.
• Perform manual testing, the scope of which will encompass all functionalities of services as a prequel to automation.
• Analyze test logs; create test reports, co-ordinate with stakeholders.
• Working in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software

A day in the life
Quality Assurance Engineers test code at the user level, both manually and with automated tools. Our SQA Engineers are not pure black box testers; they are more grey box, able to understand software internals, debug problems, and write automated tests with Java and/or user-level automated tools. SQA Engineers work with Software Development Engineers to understand features and technical implementation. SQA Engineers should also work with groups such as Product Management, User Interaction, and Customer Support to understand customer usage models and develop test plans and suites that approximate real-world environments and driving the software development process towards quality-centric methodologies.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 2+ years of quality assurance engineering experience
- Experience in manual testing
- Experience in automation testing
- Experience in UI and API automation testing (Selenium/SOAPUI)
- Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Demonstrable experience in writing clean code quickly
- Preferably Java coding
- Experience in databases. and understanding of QA methodologies, life cycle and processes.PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Experience in API & Mobile testing
- Experience designing and planning test conditions, test scripts, and test data sets to ensure appropriate and adequate coverage and control
- Testing frameworks and automation experience
- Java or other scripting language hands on coding
- Experience using SQL and writing web based product testing frameworks and automation tools
- Independent Analytical thinking and problem solving ability

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