Kindle Ereader is a revolutionary reading device the #1 bestselling product on all of Amazon and one of the most innovative and fast growing businesses at Amazon. It is an iconic product and a thriving business adored by customers around the world but its still day one in inspiring the world to read more and get more out of reading every day across all their devices.
Key job responsibilities
SDETs at Amazon are able to understand software internals debug code automate repetitive tasks and implement new tools and frameworks needed to streamline our quality process. Our SDETs work directly with both Software Development Engineers and Quality Assurance Engineers to understand project features review technical designs and implement automated test tools that help deliver quality features with efficiency. Our SDETs understand customer usage models and are able to develop test plans and test cases that approximate realworld environments and scenarios.
A Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) is a developer with the primary responsibility of writing frameworks and tools to test products. It is a very unique and challenging role and provides immense opportunity to design and develop widereaching tools. It combines the building aspect of software design engineering with the breaking aspect of software test engineering. Youll be writing code that automatically verifies the quality of the product. That means that you potentially write more code than the developers.
In this role you
Design and build the automated test frameworks and test suites for use in development and testing cycles
Design and develop tools which will help Developers/Testers.
Collaborating with development teams and your team peers to identify and prioritize opportunities for automation.
Participating in design and code inspections.
A successful candidate must have a solid history of delivering results obsession with quality be detail oriented a team player and have the ability to work in a fastpaced startup like environment
1 years of test automation frameworks and tools building experience
2 years of noninternship professional software development testing experience
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including objectoriented design
Experience in penetration testing and exploitabilityfocused vulnerability assessment
Experience in platformlevel security mitigations and hardening for Linux and Windows
Knowledge of overall system architecture scalability reliability and performance in a database environment
Experience with security in serviceoriented architectures and web services
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