DESCRIPTION

Our vision is that every Amazon customer will pay with Amazon Payments every time and every place s/he transacts anywhere online. Amazon Payments is a young and growing business in Amazon with a startup culture. The Amazon Payments engineering team is responsible for designing, building, and operating innovative payments solutions for merchants and content providers. It enables customers to send and receive payments for goods or services by using their Amazon accounts from the web, or from a mobile device. The engineering organization also owns the quality, performance and availability of the payment services.
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 not pure black box testers, they 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.

Key job responsibilities
Engineering in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience. Demonstrated experience in test planning, test design, test strategy, and test execution of highly complex systems. Ability to design and plan testing conditions, test scripts, and test data sets to ensure appropriate and adequate coverage and control. Strong analytical and problem solving skills Demonstrated experience in writing clean scripts/code quickly. Preferably Java coding. Experience in various automation tools and frameworks. Understanding of QA methodologies, life cycle and processes Strong organizational skills, able to track multiple test executions simultaneously and synthesize the results. Comfortable communicating cross-functionally and across management levels in formal and informal settings to report on test progress, metrics, issues, and risks. Experience in Agile/Scrum. Automation framework development experience

In this role, you will:
• Participate in the full development life cycle, working within broadly defined parameters, including test plan execution and software quality needs.
• Writing and executing test plans, designing and developing test tools, debugging and reporting code bugs and pushing quality upstream.
• Create and execute appropriate quality plans, project plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts.
• Define test strategy, tools and process for quality assurance of the product and software
• Define, rollout, and enforce best practice processes in the areas of functional, system and regression testing using a combination of manual and automated testing
• Develop test strategies, test plans, and test schedules for new projects and software releases
• Shows creativity and initiative to improve product coverage and effectiveness.
• Familiarity with CI/CD automation frameworks.
• Efficiently execute test cases across all functional and backend areas of our products
• Demonstrated ability to operate within short release cycles
• Technical leader defining the Performance KPI roadmap and product test strategy deliverables
• Mentoring L4/L5 QA team members and be the subject matter expert for knowledge sharing and engineering practices
• Work across team boundaries to evolve best practices, test requirements, influence decisions made by QA organizations

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 6+ years of quality assurance engineering experience
– 4+ years of delivering test frameworks, test tools, leading the QA projects and initiatives experience
– Bachelor’s degree
– 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