Software Development Engineer in Test, Alexa Music

DescriptionWant to transform the way people consume and interact with music? Come join the team thats enabling developers to create world class voice-forward music experiences, across devices and services. We brought Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, Sirius XM and much more to Alexa.We work with top tier internal and external music partners to drive innovation with video and voice.In this role youll have independent technical ownership on new customer features and supporting architecture on a day to day and week to week basis. Youll learn new in-demand skills like building voice control interfaces and scalable API platforms that will be highly valuable as you grow your career at Amazon and beyond. Youll work directly with Product Management and Design to refine the customer experience for Alexa entertainment featured products. Youll join a unique team in the Alexa organization with our own culture we move fast to deliver new great features for customers and have a ton of fun doing it.Come join us as we build the Voice OS for Entertainment in the home. Were breaking new ground and need your help to bring our vision to reality.Key job responsibilitiesAs SDET you will be responsible for building highly scaled systems that ensure Alexa continues to delight customers world wide.Key Responsibilities:Design and development of quality infrastructure that encourages the optimal combination of unit/component/integration and end to end tests.Design and development of platform verification kit.Collaborate with software engineering teams, driving continuous development, integration and deploymentWorking with Senior engineers to develop best practices for software quality assurance across multiple software teamsMentor and exert technical influence over junior team members, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and expertise.You will have a profound impact on millions of customers.Report on status of development, quality, operations to managementThe key requirement for this position is established skill designing and developing complex, interactive customer experiences.If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you.About the teamAlexa Music QA owns the full end-to-end experience the Alexa Music platform delivers to customers.Our charter is to continuously drive quality engineering and push the quality bar up across all Alexa Music teams. We do this by :- Providing test infrastructure to enable engineering teams to test and own quality of the services.- Acting as consultant to engineering team for service test coverage.- Being a stakeholder of the release to ensure defects are fixed per SLA and end customer experience are protected and improved.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 designPreferred Qualifications- Knowledge of overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance in a database environment- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures and web services- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical fieAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.