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Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test, Prime Tech - Membership Growth
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
Are you ready to work on services that creates the most impactful membership in the world that already have over 150 million paid members in 20 countries around the world?
If you want to accept the challenge of joining 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 and implement new features, you will use a variety of core languages and technologies including , and Linux to name a few, and build highly scalable services in order to bring the Prime experience to a large variety of Amazon business.
Prime is a great platform to develop your career and take it to the next level. Our roadmap is bursting with opportunity for you to lead this team in effectively solving intriguing challenges and tangibly impacting the customer experience.
As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test on this team, you will be leading test automation and infrastructure development, test new and architectural choices which have a significant impact on our systems, our business and most importantly, our customers. You will be working directly with Developers, QA Engineers and Product Managers to ensure quality development and quality of our applications and platforms. We are working with 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 world wide.
- Lead the design and development of quality infrastructure that encourages the optimal combination of unit/component/integration and end to end tests.
- Collaborate with software engineering teams, driving continuous development, integration and deployment
- Working with Principal Engineers and other Senior engineers to develop best practices for software quality assurance across multiple software teams
- Actively participate in cross team design reviews
- Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community
- Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and expertise.
- You will have a profound impact on millions of customers.
- Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
- The key requirement for this position is established skill designing and developing complex, interactive customer experiences.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ years experience in a test or development role as part of a product development organization which has delivered consumer oriented products
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as C++, Java, Python
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
- 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.
- Knowledge of industry standard test automation tools and experience in developing product test harnesses and instrumenting products to gather test results
- Experience with test driven development and establishing unit test infrastructures
- Experience automating the validating of modern user interfaces and messaging infrastructures
- Experience with evaluating and integrating open source and in house developed toolsets
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to generate and communicate meaningful development metrics
- Expert in software quality and testing methodologies
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
- Experienced in interacting and coordinating test activities amongst multiple teams
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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