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Amazon Software Development Engineer-Test in Chennai, TennesseeIndia
Description
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Amazon Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical.
We are looking for a “Software Developer - Test" who is passionate to work on core system architecture and cutting-edge technologies. A Software Design Engineer in Test (SDET) at Amazon is a developer with the primary responsibility of building Tools, services and Writing Automation frameworks to test products. It is a very unique and challenging role and provides immense opportunity to design and develop wide-reaching tools. It combines the "building" aspect of software design engineering with the "breaking" aspect of software test engineering. You’ll be writing code that automatically verifies that if anything does go wrong, you’re code will tell us. That means that you potentially write more code than the developers.
You will lead test automation efforts for critical and complex technical projects spanning multiple service teams and Amazon businesses. You will be responsible for driving improvements in tools, test environments and reporting mechanisms as well as influence the implementation of the right solutions.
The ideal candidate for this role has a strong track record and proficiency in building efficient and innovative test tools. They will bring clarity to complexity, probing assumptions, illuminating pitfalls with data, and fostering shared understanding. They have specialized knowledge analyzing test procedures, inspecting architectures and developing test infrastructure and tools that provide confidence in product quality.
Key job responsibilities
Primary responsibilities for this role include:
Envision, design and develop tools, frameworks and testing infrastructure to facilitate the testing by multiple teams and Amazon business. This includes analyzing requirements, assessing testability, identifying automation opportunities and implementing them for projects where the work will be run by multiple businesses in parallel.
Lead and actively participate in design review, test planning and tools reviews, aligning teams across organization towards coherent test tool strategy.
Lead effort towards simplifying test tools and technologies in terms of efficiency, effectiveness stability, extensibility, and scalability. Actively participate in employee hiring and development process.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Bangalore, KA, IND | Chennai, TN, IND
Basic Qualifications
4+ years of non-internship professional software development testing experience
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
1+ years of test automation frameworks and tools building experience
Automation experience (test, integration, build/release) in a distributed environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to own, design, lead and implement test strategies for complex applications and deployment topologies.