Quality Assurance Engineer, Prime Video - Cross Platform and Living Room Player
DESCRIPTION
Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching?
Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows from Originals and Exclusive content to exciting live sports events. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 240 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do.
If this sounds exciting to you, please read on!
We are looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join the Prime Video Living Room Player team. We develop the video player components running on a vast array of devices from Smart TVs to Set top boxes and Game consoles. The Living Room Player team is building and deploying optimized native components as well as platform independent, scriptable components and cloud based infrastructure to power video playback on millions of living room devices.
Key job responsibilities
Our team is looking for a talented QAE to help us shape the future of automated testing across the devices where Prime Video runs. With hundreds of platforms to test and deploy, we need a QAE that has both a vision for end to end test automation and the technical capabilities to execute on that vision. This role, while involving a small amount of manual testing, will be focused on our goal for our Quality Assurance Engineers to own the automation of our tests, pipelines, and global deployments. The successful candidate must be comfortable with test automation, DevOps and the code to make these concepts a reality.
A day in the life
You will work on the latest video technology such as automating testing for Ultra High Definition, High Dynamic Range, Dolby Atmos, Low latency live streaming etc. You will solve big picture problems like "How to automate tests that model poor internet connections and how can we automatically detect performance regressions release over release for Video Game Devices?" You will utilize test automation, continuous integration and agile development methodologies to drive and scale the tests for our player that impact millions of Prime Video Customers with each release.
About the team
Prime Video is available in over 1 billion Living Room devices globally. Our team provides the playback experience for hundreds of millions of weekly customer sessions. We delight our customers with new features and improvements continuously in an Agile environment. We obsess over reliability, quality, and latency of playback. A successful candidate is able to learn quickly, delivers results in collaboration with other Living Room and Playback teams, insists on the highest standards, can dive deep and looks at every opportunity to automate to help us operate at scale.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in automation testing
- Experience with performance and scalability testing
- Experience as QA lead on medium to large sized projects
- Experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
- Experience in manual testing
- Ability to read and write Typescript and Python
- Able to read and understand code to help triage bugs and improve automation
- Improve player testability by developing interceptors to simulate test scenarios
- Perform triage on failed tests and identify components at fault
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with at least one automated test framework like Selenium or Appium
- Experience scripting or coding
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
- Experience in gathering test requirements to create detailed test plans and defining quality metrics to measure product quality
- Experience working closely with development and business teams to communicate problem impacts and to understand business requirements
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