The vision for Books org is to make every book ever published, in any language, available for every customer in less than 60 seconds. The Books shopping Experience team plays a key role in making this vision happen by providing shopping experiences that helps customers discover their next book to read. Customers shop for Kindle books from a variety of surfaces including desktops/laptops, Kindle E-ink devices, Fire Tablets and mobile browser on their phones and tablets. We provide shopping experiences for customers no matter where they are and what device they have.
We are looking for a strong Software Development Engineer in Test to help us deliver high quality products with great efficiency. Furthermore, we need you to be self-driven, and solve problems for the long-term with innovative technical solutions. You will need to be able to work closely with other team members, as well as offer technical leadership to the team on automation. You should have an in-depth knowledge of automation framework design, development, solid understanding of computer science principles, and excellent customer focus.
Key job responsibilities
As an SDET, your responsibilities will include:
- Creating and designing automation frameworks that work across multiple devices and platforms.
- Collaborate with AI and machine learning teams to enhance and expand AI automation capabilities.
- Develop innovative AI solutions to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of our shopping platform.
- Evaluate and enhance the existing quality test infrastructure to ensure comprehensive testing and validation
- Develop new testing frameworks and tools to improve test coverage and efficiency.
- Creating tests for new features and services for the Books Shopping Experience
- Building automated tests using existing tools and frameworks to expose defects in product code
- Working directly with Software Developers, Product Managers, and Technical Program Managers to ensure proper development and quality of our applications and platforms
- Ability to understand products requirements and develop the right strategy for automation focus for the best coverage and reliability for the time invested
- Ensure code reviews tend to be rapid and uneventful. Provide useful code reviews for changes submitted by others.
- Dive deep into our testing methodologies to transform manual quality processes to highly automated quality solutions.
A day in the life
As a Software Development Engineer in Test on this team, you will be leading test automation and infrastructure development, as well as new test design and architectural choices (including genAI) which have a significant impact on our product, our business and most importantly, our customers. You will be working directly with Developers, QA Engineers, TPMs, and Product Managers to ensure the quality of our application. If you are creative, customer focused, have a passion for QA and test automation and enjoy working in a fun environment, this team is right for you.- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development testing experience
- 1+ years of test automation frameworks and tools building experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience in penetration testing and exploitability-focused vulnerability assessment
- Experience in platform-level security mitigations and hardening for Linux and Windows- Experience with AI and machine learning technologies is highly desirable
- Experience with cloud platforms
- Knowledge of data analytics and visualization tools
- Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines
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