Software Development Engineer Test, Amazon Music

Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale.

You will be evaluating existing solutions within Amazon, compare the solutions with their pros and cons, and recommend a solution in terms of long term or short term strategy. You will implement and deploy these solutions, which tests mid-large scale features, individual components and services.

You will own and implement modular framework components/systems, framework enhancements, within existing framework. You are expected to use various design patterns and technologies to build solutions which are reliable, generic, extendible and reusable, across multiple locales, devices, features, teams etc.

You will be an independent contributor, who works with various stakeholders to improve overall quality of customer s E2E Voice experience, aligned with product launches of various Amazon Music teams. SDET s key focus is also to reduce manual/regression test execution, and improve test efficiency by creating automated solutions, related to Voice domain. You should identify and reduce defects early in the cycle, through building and driving adoption of framework and self-service tools for the Voice QA / Dev and business teams to reduce testing costs and manage future risks.


You will propose and utilize S/W Engineering best practices/processes to improve operational excellence, maintaining high coding standards, work in Away team model reviewing design and code for partner teams.


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. Our SDETs work directly with both Software Development Engineers and Quality Assurance Engineers to understand project features, review technical designs, and implement automated test tools that help deliver quality features with efficiency. Our SDETs understand customer usage models and are able to develop test plans and test cases that approximate real-world environments and scenarios.

A day in the life
A Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) is a developer with the primary responsibility of writing frameworks and tools to test products. 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.
SDETs are able to understand software internals, debug code, automate repetitive tasks, and implement new tools and frameworks needed to streamline our quality process. Our SDETs work directly with both Software Development Engineers and Quality Assurance Engineers to understand project features, review technical designs, and implement automated test tools that help deliver quality features with efficiency. - 1+ years of test automation frameworks and tools building experience
- 2+ 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
- Experience in platform-level security mitigations and hardening for Linux and Windows