Quality Assurance Engineer - Amazon Video Distribution Team

Recruiter
Amazon
Location
London
Salary
Competitive
Posted
20 Aug 2017
Closes
21 Aug 2017
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Do you want to help grow the availability of Amazon Video to millions of customers across living room platforms around the world? Are you interested in working on bleeding-edge video streaming technology? Join our team and you'll be able to learn from a great team and play a pivotal role in how we continue to expand the reach of Amazon Video.
The team has already launched Amazon Video on a range of devices from Sony, Samsung, LG, Roku amongst others. Consumer equipment manufacturers continue to innovate with the launch of 4K, HDR, curved screens, wand controllers and virtual reality and you will be responsible for ensuring high quality innovations are brought to AV customers.

The successful candidate will:
• Be responsible for leading the testing of medium to large projects
• Be a champion of quality and operational excellence, help to define metrics that measure software quality
• Dig into the requirements of a project to be able to write a detailed test plan to provide guidance to others
• Contribute test cases for automation frameworks to be able to test faster and smarter
• Own areas of the end-to-end testing process, continually improving them and spread knowledge around the team

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• You've worked on large scale distributed & highly available applications
• Experience working on Applications for App Stores
• Familiar testing video technology a bonus
• Experience creating automation frameworks
• Attention to detail, and the ability to pick up new tools and technologies quickly

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Demonstrated track record for code quality, automation, and continuous deployment are just the way things get done
• Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
• Experience driving quality for highly available and large scale customer facing systems