Senior QA Engineer, Amazon Smart Vehicles

Do you have a passion for Automotive? Do you want to challenge the status quo of the in-car experience? Do you want to take on very ambiguous problems? If you answered yes to these questions, we have a dream job for you.


As a member of the team, you will be working with business partners, software development engineers to design, implement manual and automated tests. You will have significant influence on our overall test strategy and driving the system architecture that supports it and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product. You should have a combination of solid in-depth knowledge of Quality Assurance, solid understanding of the operating system software, as well as knowledge automation tools. You will learn a variety of latest technologies, development processes, and develop well-rounded skills such as leadership, and effective project management. Candidates will need to define test plans, test specifications, test suites, test cases as well as design tools for functional and performance testing in a programmatic manner.


Key job responsibilities
Propose improvements to our existing processes and automated tools in order to improve the team s speed, quality and efficiency.
Lead projects end to end with minimum guidance
. Drive the program horizontally across domains and features to deliver
. Help build a roadmap and vision for the team
. Evaluate and propose new ideas and test methodologies, leading the team to innovate and stay ahead of the curve
. Deliver new test strategies, test plans and enhance/optimize existing plans as part of Opex
. Lead and drive the oncall process for high severity issues
. Propose and drive innovative Automation solutions to challenge status-quo and improve efficiency and reliability
. Mentor junior team members and interns technically

A day in the life
1. Mentoring junior team members
2. Debugging technically challenging issues with team
3. Meeting stakeholders to make critical engineering decisions and taking next steps towards resolution
4. Proposing processes to improve status quo
5. Dealing with tactical solutions while thinking of long-term and strategic plans

About the team
We have a team of smart and innovate engineers and enthusiasts who passionately work on problem solving and dealing with ambiguity - 6+ years of quality assurance engineering experience
- 4+ years of delivering test frameworks, test tools, leading the QA projects and initiatives experience
- Knowledge of QA methodology and tools, with demonstrated experience in an QAE role
- Experience in manual testing
- Experience in automation testing
- Experience scripting or coding