Job Description

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with the ownership of software project testing: defining test strategy, writing test plans, designing and executing software tests, iterative development process improvement
• Knowledge of QA methodology, industry-standard testing and bug tracking tools
• Demonstrated experience in writing and utilizing high-quality automation to solve test problems
• Software QA automation experience working with at least one programming language such as: Java, C#, Swift, Python.

Job summary
With over 120 million members, Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. Our mission is to help people find and share books they love. Goodreads members can discover new books by seeing what their friends and members of the community are reading or by using the Goodreads Book Recommendation Engine. Our platform also helps more than 220,000 authors to connect with readers. We are looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer who will be thrilled to work on our engagement features that customers love and enjoy in their everyday reading.

As a Quality Assurance Tech I(QAT) at Goodreads, you’ll have the opportunity to influence the development of experiences for the world’s largest community of readers. In this role, you will be responsible for owning quality and accessibility test aspects for web feature releases, creating Test plans & automated tests, developing a deeper understanding of our customers, and advocating for change. If you are creative, customer focused, and would like to try the new technologies and types of testing, this role is right for you!

Our QA engineers are part of the delightful experience that we deliver to customers. The engineers have the opportunity to work with multiple stakeholders from product managers to customer support teams. Our features are cross-platform and the QA engineers carry the responsibility to raise the quality bar and deliver results in web platform environments. They get opportunities to work on solving difficult test strategies along with the development team. There is plenty of opportunity to work with multiple teams, collaborate and deliver. You will be expected to work in a heterogeneous environment and bring flexibility, speed, and quality to our teams.



Key responsibilities:

• Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against fast paced schedules.
• Evaluate product functionality and create test strategies and test cases to assess feature quality.
• Manage and track testcases, test results.
• Conduct Test case/plan reviews, defect triages with teams.
• Champion the quality of features in our development pipeline using both automated and manual tests, reporting and verifying defects, and signing-off on features and release candidates.
• Perform manual and regression testing for accessibility of Web features.
• Create automated tests for web applications.
• Drive quality initiatives and point out areas that require attention.
• Be able to define success criteria broadly and deeply within the system.
• Interpret and report testing results, and be a vocal proponent for quality in every phase of the development process

Come join us and be a part of Amazon family here at Goodreads!

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• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodology and automation tools, with demonstrated QA experience
• Hands-on experience creating and maintaining tests and automated test frameworks
• Demonstrated ability to mentor other quality assurance engineers to maintain software quality
• Creativity and initiative to improve test coverage, effectiveness or test processes
• Experience in testing web-based applications, widgets and interactive experiences.
• Strong sense of ownership, bias for action, and drive.