We are looking for a passionate, talented Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) who can drive key engineering and business decisions that impact Amazon’s long-term vision. In this development role, you will have an opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture and quality of cutting edge products used every day, by people you know.
Basic Qualifications
3+ years of non-internship professional software development testing experience
2+ 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
Experience in penetration testing and exploitability-focused vulnerability assessment
Experience in platform-level security mitigations and hardening for Linux and Windows
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.
Key Responsibilities
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 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. You will be working closely with Product Managers, Sr. Engineers, Quality Engineers, Technical Program Managers, and highly motivated peers. You will collaborate with teams across Amazon on the planning and execution of complex and highly-technical projects with high impact and visibility.
Company Profile
From an online bookstore to one of the world s largest e-commerce platforms, Amazon has emerged as the top player in the industry since its inception in 1994. Amazon has built an extensive online marketplace across continents, empowering its customers with a catalog encompassing products from A-Z. Amazon strives to be the world s most customer-centric company, a purpose that has powered multiple breakthroughs in our delivery, supply chain, and customer support services. In the pursuit of operational efficiency, tech innovations have become the cornerstone of the organization. This has led to the pioneering of new services, most notably within the entertainment, publishing, finance, IT, cloud computing, AI, and Machine Learning industries.
