Quality Assurance Technician

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Who You Are :
· You are a sharp, passionate engineer with strong problem-solving skills and solid software testing foundation.
· You are a talented, detail, oriented and enthusiastic tester who is passionate about quality and is enthusiastic about the new cutting edge technology offered to consumers.
· You will design, plan, execute and automate tests for software across a variety of n-tier architectures and cutting-edge technologies.

Who We Are:
Seller Experience and Fulfillment Technology (SFT) team located in Bangalore is looking for a QAT to deliver strategic goals for Amazon e-commerce systems. This is an opportunity to join our mission to build tech solutions that empower sellers to delight the next billion customers. You will be responsible for testing and creating automated tests for strategic business initiatives. If you feel excited by the challenge of setting the course for large company wide initiatives, building and launching customer facing products in international locales, this may be the next big career move for you. We are building systems which can scale across multiple marketplaces and are on the cutting edge in automated large scale ecommerce business. We are looking for a QAT who can understand the domain and deliver high quality software. We operate in a high performance co-located agile ecosystem where SDEs, QAEs, QATs, Product Managers and Principals frequently connect with end customers of our products. Our QAEs/QATs stay connected with customers through seller/FC/Deliver Station visits and customer anecdotes. This allows our engineers to significantly influence product roadmap, contribute to PRFAQs and create disproportionate impact through the tech they deliver. We offer Technology leaders a once in a lifetime opportunity to transform billions of lives across the planet through their tech innovations.

Quality Assurance Technician at Amazon would test cutting edge applications and products at user level; primarily they would involve in manual testing and also execution and maintenance of automation script. QATs would use black box testing techniques to break code and drive customer satisfaction. QATs at Amazon are excellent individual contributors capable of understanding and executing test cases, driving test execution with minimal help. QATs would be trying to understand feature to great depth which would enable them to report issues and take ownership and drive them to closure. QATs are highly accurate in reporting the software behavior ensuring that there is no ambiguity while reproducing issues. High quality and accuracy is maintained throughout the software release without compromising on deadlines.

Role & Responsibility
· Black Box testing
· Write test cases for the new feature, modifying and maintaining the existing test cases.
· Understand and ramp up on QA procedures, guidelines and policies for newly launched feature and apply them
· Use software tools for QA, fix up and data capture on a daily basis
· Be proactive in identify issues, deep dive, troubleshoot, communicate to stake holders and escalation of issue and providing status reports
· Contribute toward continuous team process improvement
· Ability to debug and fix automated tests as needed and contribute towards adding new tests to the existing automated test suites.
· Be part of a highly charged work environment
Quality Assurance Technician at Amazon would test cutting edge applications and products at user level; primarily they would involve in manual testing and also execution and maintenance of automation script. QATs would use black box testing techniques to break code and drive customer satisfaction. QATs at Amazon are excellent individual contributors capable of understanding and executing test cases, driving test execution with minimal help. QATs would be trying to understand feature to great depth which would enable them to report issues and take ownership and drive them to closure. QATs are highly accurate in reporting the software behavior ensuring that there is no ambiguity while reproducing issues. High quality and accuracy is maintained throughout the software release without compromising on deadlines.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· A graduate in Quantitative fields such as science and engineering. (0-2 experience)
· Formal Testing Certifications/trainings like ISTQB or equivalent.
· Understanding of automaton test frameworks like Selenium, Appium etc would be added advantage.
· Understanding of Agile Software Development Methodologies.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· A graduate in Quantitative fields such as science and engineering. (0-2 experience).
· Good understanding of formal test case design techniques.
· Ability to write, execute and maintain test cases for the feature.
· Ability to clearly report defects and communicate to stakeholders in defect triage/test summary report.
· Good understanding of one scripting language, preferably Java.
· High level of energy and proactive nature. A sense of ownership and drive and a willingness to accept the challenge of daily deadlines is essential.