Software Dev Engineer Test, Digital Accelaration

Amazon Digital Accelaration (DA) is looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our team of Senior SDETs and Principle Engineers in building highly visible robust automation tools and framework to tackle hard to solve problems. DA enables Amazon device and subscription businesses to innovate faster and deliver more for customers while ensuring reliability scale security and cost efficiency by building services and tools that are self-serviceable and configurable.

We are looking for a SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) to help architect design build and test improvements to mission critical systems that power customer subscriptions at Amazon. The Digital commerce team handles complexities of managing all digital subscriptions across Amazon including Amazon Prime Kindle Unlimited Audible Music and Video using the latest in high-availability services and distributed systems.


Key job responsibilities
To be successful in this position you will have:
- A strong background in algorithms data structures Java and databases both SQL and NoSQL.
- The ability to communicate clearly and concisely (both written and orally) and work well in a team are key competencies.
- You should be able to quickly adapt to new development environments learn new systems create reliable and maintainable code and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems.
- Experience working with high-traffic scalable services is a plus.

A day in the life
As a QA champion on the engineering team you will get the opportunity to own major deliverable at all phases of the development cycle: scoping design coding and testing using an agile process. Youll write and implement test plans that root out bugs and design flaws in our systems so that we can resolve them before they make it to production. Youll build frameworks that allow the team to write reliable targeted and extensible tests to support a fast-growing feature set in our Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Youll have an opportunity to work with other teams throughout Amazon to flesh out cross-team requirements and designs. Youll also put your experience expertise and creativity to work in determining/recommending the best designs based on business objective timeline and resource constraints.

About the team
Amazon Digital Acceleration powers ordering subscriptions and device management for Prime Amazon Video Music Audible Alexa and Kindle amongst other digital businesses. We process billions of digital purchases every year and enable our digital businesses to grow their businesses worldwide. We are on a mission to be earths best provider of one-time and recurring digital commerce delivering a seamless and enjoyable post-purchase customer experience.

- 2 years of non-internship professional software development testing experience
- 1 years of test automation frameworks and tools building experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including object-oriented design

- Knowledge of overall system architecture scalability reliability and performance in a database environment
- 4 years of test automation frameworks and tools building experience
- Experience designing or supporting low-maintenance automation frameworks
- Experience debugging diagnosing and troubleshooting complex production software issues

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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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 Bellevue - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually