Software Dev. Engineer in Test, Alexa Shopping-Core

We are looking for a passionate and skilled Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join the Rufus Quality Engineering team. Rufus is Amazons conversational AI shopping assistant and as an SDET on this team you will play a critical role in building scalable test automation frameworks enabling Continuous Deployment (Full CD) and driving quality excellence across Rufus services.

This role is ideal for engineers who thrive at the intersection of software development and quality engineering building tools frameworks and intelligent systems that empower developers to ship high-quality features at speed.

Key job responsibilities
Alexa is a strategic investment for Amazon and were building AI-powered shopping experiences that help millions of customers save time and money every day. The Alexa Shopping team is reimagining how customers discover products manage their shopping lists buy everyday essentials and groceries and make confident purchase decisions through the power of voice touch and Generative AI. We are seeking the industrys best to help us create new ways to interact search and shop. Join us and youll take part in changing the future of everyday life.

The Alexa Shopping group is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test to build the quality automation that our entire shopping ecosystem depends on. Shopping is scaling from dozens of customer experiences to several hundred across a widening set of surfaces voice visual and touch on Echo devices Fire TV web and headless and generative interactions have made manual validation both slower and less conclusive. Youll own the frameworks tooling and agentic systems that let every Shopping team prove quality on its own before a change reaches customers. This is a horizontal role: you build once and every vertical benefits.

A day in the life
Test Automation Framework Development: Design build and maintain scalable reusable test automation frameworks for Shoppings backend services multi-modal device experiences (voice visual touch) and GenAI response validation.

Tool Development: Build and maintain internal testing tools that enable SDEs to self-serve test authoring execution and quality validation.

GenAI Quality Validation: Develop testing strategies and tooling for validating generative AI outputs including prompt evaluation response quality benchmarking hallucination detection and regression testing.

Autonomous Test Generation: Contribute to agentic AI systems for traffic-weighted test generation intelligent failure analysis and predictive quality modeling.

Quality Gates: Embed coverage into the release path through pipeline-blocking quality gates and automated go/no-go evaluation.

Collaboration: Partner with feature teams to embed quality earlier in the development lifecycle and influence testability upstream reducing production escapes.

About the team
Were a central platform team not embedded QA. We own Alexa Shoppings quality automation framework the orgs QA bar and coverage methodology self-service enablement for every vertical and the production feedback loop that keeps our test coverage sharpening itself against real customer behavior. Were force multipliers we favor reuse over rebuild and we care deeply about craft.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development testing experience
- Experience designing or supporting low-maintenance automation frameworks

- Knowledge of overall system architecture scalability reliability and performance in a database environment
- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures and web services

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually