Job Information
Amazon SDET, Amazon Streaming Ads in Austin, Texas
Description
Streaming Ads is a product and a thriving business adored by advertisers around the world – but it’s still “day one” in inspiring the world in building next generation Ads experience for Living room, across all their devices.
We are seeking a passionate, hard-working, and talented SDET engineer to join our team. We are looking for someone with experience building backend services and automating mission critical software and services to help shape the future of automated testing for our Streaming Ads experiences. The ideal candidate is an innovative self-starter who is looking for an opportunity to be both an individual contributor and technical lead to deliver impact on several quality initiatives across the org. You will be working across multiple teams and services within Ads orgs to improve our automation infrastructure and raise quality bar across applications.
To be successful you need to be flexible and entrepreneurial, comfortable operating with ambiguity and willing to develop quick proof of concepts. You are a passionate owner about customer and societal impact. You will drive the quality initiatives forward and operate at all levels, diving deep into the details to set the standard for engineering excellence in the org. You deliver artifacts that set the standard in your organization for engineering excellence, from designs to algorithms to implementations. You are a pragmatic problem solver, applying judgment and experience to balance trade-offs. You are flexible, adapting your approach to meet the needs of the team, project, and product.
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. It is a very unique and challenging role and provides immense opportunity to design and develop wide-reaching tools. It combines the "building" aspect of software design engineering with the "breaking" aspect of software test engineering. You’ll be writing code that automatically verifies the quality of the product. That means that you potentially write more code than the developers.
As SDET II, you will take ownership of Streaming Ads test architecture, providing a system-wide view and design guidance. You understand the principles of data and how to use it to derive insight about software quality, with simplified solutions. You stand your ground and push relentlessness in guiding best practices (e.g., unit testing, continuous deployment, etc.). You have acute instincts for where software fails, common testing pitfalls, and anticipate and prevent future problems from occurring and proactively fix deficiencies in test frameworks and tools. You work to improve engineer efficiency and resolve the root cause of endemic problems including areas where your team limits the innovation. You do not accept solutions that make continued testing after release (regression testing) difficult or labor intensive. This may require you to influence decisions made by other teams. When confronted with discordant views, you are able to find the best way forward and influence others to follow that path.
Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
Design and build the automated test frameworks and test suites for use in development and testing cycles
Identify and tackle intrinsically hard problems in unblocking automation from Streaming Ads domain .
Design and develop tools which will help Developers/Testers.
Collaborating with development teams and your team peers to identify and prioritize opportunities for automation.
Lead and actively participate in design reviews, aligning teams across your organization towards coherent architectural and testability strategies
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 fast-paced start-up like environment
About the team
We are the Streaming Ads org from Amazon Ads business. Our mission is to ensure a seamless and reliable user experience for advertisers and living room experience for viewers. We design, build and enhance testing solutions to uphold the highest standards in Streaming Ad products across multiple 1P publisher experiences including Prime Video, FireTV. We build tooling, frameworks, and processes to prioritize automation, enhance testing metrics and reduce manual efforts in release sign-off procedures. We offer guidance on best practices in test strategies and advocate for a culture of quality as a first class citizen across all development stages.
Basic Qualifications
2+ years of test automation frameworks and tools building experience
4+ years of non-internship professional software development testing experience
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
Experience in penetration testing and exploitability-focused vulnerability assessment
Knowledge of current web technologies
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance in a database environment
Experience with security in service-oriented architectures and web services
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.