This is a role in the AWS Inferentia cloud-scale machine learning accelerator team. Would you like to test the newest forms of compute? How often have you had an opportunity to be a founding member of a team that is tasked with solving a huge business problem through innovative technology? Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment that’s more startup than big company. We’ll need to tackle problems that span a variety of domains, so a background in web-based distributed systems, Linux applications and server based platforms is valuable.


You will help create and help drive the team that will test a new generation of hardware/software platform for AWS. You will define test harnesses and automation frameworks, and will drive the development of test suites. You should be an expert with testing methodologies. We would prefer you to have experience working on platforms with both hardware and software elements and with testing from end to end.

As a QA Engineer, you will help tackle a variety of customer challenges. Given that this is an early-stage initiative, you will play an active role in translating business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables and test systems in partnership with other technology leaders within the team.

Key job responsibilities
- Preparing ML test plans & test strategies
- Drive the QA charter for the organization
- Execute functional, end-to-end & performance tests
- Automate tests by leveraging existing automation frameworks and making enhancements to existing frameworks
- Add automated tests to pipelines to have a scalable release model with minimum developer friction

A day in the life
- 4+ years of quality assurance engineering experience
- Experience in automation testing
- Experience in manual testing
- Experience as QA lead on medium to large sized projects
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
- Experience of using test case management tools (e.g. Test Rail, TestLink) and issue management tools (Jira)

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 4+ years of quality assurance engineering experience
- Experience in automation testing
- Experience scripting or coding
- Experience as QA lead on medium to large sized projects
- Experience of using test case management tools (e.g. Test Rail, TestLink) and issue management tools (Jira)
- Experience developing high quality test plans, test designs, test strategies, and test execution
- Experience in gathering test requirements to create detailed test plans and defining quality metrics to measure product quality

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in leading/coordinating work for other test teams
- Experience measuring software quality
- Experience with performance and scalability testing
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $102,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/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.