Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), Alexa Smart Properties

Amazons Alexa Smart Properties (ASP) team is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to drive quality engineering across our enterprise Alexa ecosystem. ASP delivers Alexa-powered experiences across hospitality senior living healthcare and other commercial verticals and our SDETs are at the forefront of ensuring these experiences are reliable performant and delightful for end users and enterprise partners alike.
As an SDET on the ASP team you will design and build scalable test automation frameworks own quality for critical product features and partner closely with software development engineers and product managers to embed quality throughout the development lifecycle. You will play a key role in helping ASP achieve enterprise-grade software delivery standards.

Key job responsibilities
Design develop and maintain robust test automation frameworks for cloud services 3P integrations and voice/Alexa experiences across the ASP ecosystem
Build and own end-to-end integration regression and canary test suites that validate critical customer-facing and enterprise partner-facing functionality
Partner with SDEs and product managers during design and development phases to identify testability gaps define acceptance criteria and shift quality left
Drive automation coverage improvements across Business Critical Functions (BCFs) targeting measurable reductions in functional failures and defect escape rates
Develop and maintain canary monitors and synthetic tests to proactively detect production regressions and service degradations
Contribute to CI/CD pipeline integration ensuring automated tests are embedded in build and deployment workflows
Analyze test results triage failures and work with engineering teams to drive root cause analysis and resolution
Create and maintain high-quality test documentation including test plans automation blueprints and runbooks for use by distributed teams
Mentor junior QA engineers and SDETs raising the technical bar across the quality engineering organization

- 2 years of test automation frameworks and tools building experience
- 4 years of non-internship professional software development testing experience
- Experience working with REST API based services or experience that includes strong analytical skills attention to detail and effective communication abilities and experience with programming/scripting (Batch VB PowerShell Java C# Chef Perl Ruby and/or PHP)
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools including Continuous Integration / Deployment Puppet Docker Kubernetes Chef etc.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering a related field or equivalent experience
- Experience building and maintaining integration and end-to-end test suites for distributed cloud-based systems

- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures and web services
- Experience implementing scalable compliance solutions (technology procedures processes etc.) in a regulated environment
- Experience in production monitoring and metrics reporting
- Experience with AWS Services including EC2 Lambda S3 DynamoDB SQS
- Experience with AI/ML technologies
- Experience understanding the basics of software testing or hardware devices like tablets smartphones voice recognition devices etc.

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