Job Description

DESCRIPTION
The Kindle Ingestion and Expansion (KIX) team create technology to empower authors to publish in both Kindle and Print (through Print-On-Demand) formats on kdp.amazon.com so that readers have the largest catalog of books possible. We own Print-on-Demand tech all up, including publishing through Kindle Enterprise Publishing (kep.amazon.com) and the tech required to manufacture and ship books globally. We also include Mesa, multitenant software and services that accelerate time-to-market for businesses across Amazon (such as Amazon Video, Amazon Music, Merch By Amazon, Digital Software and Video Games, ComiXology, Kindle Periodicals, Amazon locker and more).
Key job responsibilities
Help defining test strategy, writing test plans, test cases, and provide suggestion in improving the QA processes.
Help tackle cross-platform engineering challenges and contribute creative ideas to the engineering teams.
Ensure our products meet high standards of quality, performance, and reliability.
Define quality metrics and implement measurements to determine test effectiveness, testing efficiency, and measure the overall quality of the software.
Implement Test Automation leveraging test automation frameworks while driving processes to reduce manual test coverage.
Hands on Scripting/Coding Experience to write tools to automate manual tasks.
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
-Ability to understand software internals, debug problems using log files
Experience delivering test tools, leading the QA projects and initiatives
Work with Product Managers, Developers, TPMs and review technical artifacts to understand the technical architecture.
A day in the life
Quality Assurance Engineers at Amazon test 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 are responsible to understand the product domain, define test strategy and test plans, develop and drive test case execution and drive best practices to release high quality software to our customers.
You will work with Software Development Engineers to understand features and technical implementation. You will also work with groups such as Product Management, UX designers to understand customer usage models and develop test plans and suites that approximate real-world environments and regression tests driving the software development process toward quality-centric methodologies. You will develop automated tests to help fasten testing cycles and release faster to our customers. In this role, you will be responsible to deliver manual/automated solutions to test customer facing features.
As innovators we embrace new technology, you will be empowered to choose the right highly scalable and available technology to solve complex problems in software quality assurance. If you enjoy building software quality solutions for highly distributed systems and solving challenging problems, come join us!
About the team
KIX-QA exists in Chennai and is dedicated to enhancing the quality of features delivered by the KIX Team, with the primary goal of delivering exceptional customer experience for KDP Authors and KEP Publishers. Empower engineers to efficiently and confidently roll out features, delivering the optimal end-to-end user experience. Boost engineering productivity with gray-box testing, tooling, and resilient automation frameworks.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 1+ years of quality assurance engineering experience
- Experience in manual testing
- Experience in automation testing
- Experience in UI and API automation testing (Selenium/SOAPUI)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with technologies (like Selenium, Junit, TestNG, and other open source tools)
- Experience designing and planning test conditions, test scripts, and test data sets to ensure appropriate and adequate coverage and control
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