Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test, Prime Tech - Membership Growth

Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test, Prime Tech - Membership Growth

Job ID: 2800876 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Are you ready to work on services that create the most impactful membership in the world that already has over 150 million paid members in 20 countries? If you want to accept the challenge of joining the Prime team and are passionate about writing code that impacts millions of people every day, then the Amazon Prime Team wants to hear from you.

The Prime team seeks talented engineers who take great pride in both the technical and business contribution of their work. You will be given the chance to have a significant impact on our systems, our business, and most importantly, our customers. As a member of the Prime team, you will work closely with the business team to implement new features, using a variety of core languages and technologies, including Linux, to build highly scalable services that enhance the Prime experience.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test on this team, you will lead test automation and infrastructure development, and assess new architectural choices that significantly impact our systems, business, and customers. You will collaborate directly with Developers, QA Engineers, and Product Managers to ensure quality development and the integrity of our applications and platforms. We are tackling exciting new technologies and solving complex automation problems across platforms.

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you.

Key Job Responsibilities

As Sr. SDET, you will be responsible for building highly scaled systems that ensure Prime continues to delight customers worldwide:

1. Lead the design and development of quality infrastructure that encourages the optimal combination of unit/component/integration and end-to-end tests.
2. Collaborate with software engineering teams to drive continuous development, integration, and deployment.
3. Work with Principal Engineers and other Senior engineers to develop best practices for software quality assurance across multiple software teams.
4. Actively participate in cross-team design reviews.
5. Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community.
6. Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and expertise.
7. Report on the status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management.

The key requirement for this position is established skill in designing and developing complex, interactive customer experiences.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. 6+ years of experience in a test or development role as part of a product development organization that has delivered consumer-oriented products.
2. Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as C++, Java, or Python.
3. Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
2. Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, evaluate alternatives, and develop processes and tools as needed to support the organization.
3. Knowledge of industry-standard test automation tools and experience in developing product test harnesses and instrumenting products to gather test results.
4. Experience with test-driven development and establishing unit test infrastructures.
5. Experience automating the validation of modern user interfaces and messaging infrastructures.
6. Experience with evaluating and integrating open-source and in-house developed toolsets.
7. Excellent communication skills and the ability to generate and communicate meaningful development metrics.
8. Expert in software quality and testing methodologies.
9. Comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment.
10. Experienced in interacting and coordinating test activities amongst multiple teams.

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