Job Information
Amazon Quality Assurance Engineer, Ring Smart Lighting in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Description
Are you passionate about delivering quality solutions? We are looking for an experienced QAE to work as part of a fast-moving development team. Our ideal team members thrive in a dynamic environment, enjoy the challenge of working with complex business problems and are passionate builders of consistent, scalable, and maintainable products.
You are willing to insist on the highest standards for quality, maintainability, performance, and user experience. You will define and evolve the teams’ methodologies for implementing, testing and deploying software. You will demonstrate strong leadership as you control your own destiny in Amazon's ownership-oriented culture.
Key job responsibilities
Collaborate across teams to align on release timelines, test readiness and define release test plan to support requirements
Coordinate with cross functional sprint teams, automation and release teams to qualify and prepare to release Ring products and corresponding companion applications (mobile and web apps).
Develop test plans and test cases mapping to product requirements and technical implementations.
Evolve team methodologies for implementing, testing and deploying solutions
Prepares and distributes test reports and release readiness reports for stake holder review.
Actively contributes to QA support functions - Triage issues, troubleshoot issues, conduct API tracing, and support production release testing.
Participates in design discussions, planning, retrospective reviews and triage/prioritization of defects (including identification of root cause)
A day in the life
Your day to day activities will be dynamic and fast paced. You will work with a team of talented quality assurance engineers who are responsible for delivering high quality products for Ring Smart Lighting. As a leader you will collaborate with your peers and across teams to align on strategies, solutions and timelines. You will work with the team to dive deep into quality issues and provide feedback that is focused on products that are reliable and maintainable. You will execute on the testing strategy and participate in the development and execution of test plans, and reporting on test execution.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar technical field
Multiple years of experience as a QA Engineer
Experience of embedded testing
Experience in automating UI and API tests cases in one or more scripting languages (e.g., shell, bash, Perl, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, etc.)
Experience in coordinating with cross functional teams and developing test plan and test cases mapping to technical implementations.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working closely with development and business teams to understand requirements and communicate impact of issues
Strong organisational skills, ability to track multiple test executions simultaneously and to be able to synthesise results
Experience using test cases management tools (like TCM or TestRail), issues management tools (like jira etc) and development environments (like Visual Studio, IntelliJ or Eclipse)
Knowledge of wireless connectivity technologies, such as WIFI, Bluetooth, especially ZWave, Zigbee.
Shows creativity and initiative to improve product test coverage and effectiveness
Knowledge of IOT device development or testing, specifically Home Security Systems
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