Quality Assurance Technician, Amazon MX Player

Do you want to own technology, solve new problems that didn’t exist before, and have the ability to see the impact of your successes?

Amazon and MX Player recently joined forces to accelerate premium free entertainment for 250 million users in India. With this acquisition, Amazon merged two of India’s most popular free AVOD (or ad-supported video on demand) services – MX Player and Amazon miniTV into one service - Amazon MX Player. We seek engineers who can help us shape and build Amazon MX Player.

You can read about the service here: https://www.aboutamazon.in/news/entertainment/amazon-minitv-mx-player-merger https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/media/entertainment/amazon-merges-minitv-with-mx-player-to-create-a-free-streaming-giant/articleshow/114007982.cms

We are looking for a high-energy, talented quality assurance engineer. You will work with multiple development teams and stakeholders in India and worldwide, to drive test strategy and implementation. A successful candidate will have a strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. Prior experience with Android technology testing is a strong plus. The person chosen for this position will have the opportunity to contribute their creative ideas and energy to new, complex and business critical products.


Key job responsibilities
1. Coordinate with multiple teams to communicate our technical requirements, drive schedules and review and help build test plans that test end-to-end functionality spanning services owned by multiple organisations.
2. Design, execute and automate tests of front end applications, and middle and back-end software across a variety of architectures and cutting-edge technologies.
3. Test systems at the user level, both manually and with automated tools.
4. Grey box testers rather than black-box testers, able to understand software internals, debug problems using log files, and write automated tests with scripts and/or user-level automated tools.
5. Work with Software Development Engineers and Business Owners to understand the technical implementation of features.
6. Work with business stakeholders, designers and customer service teams to understand customer usage models and develop test plans and suites that approximate real-world environments.
7. Help drive the software development process towards quality-centric methodologies, always seeking to avoid defects or find them at the earliest stage possible.

A day in the life
As a Quality Assurance Technician on India Payment team, you will work with Software Development Engineers to understand features and technical implementation. You will also work with groups such as Product Management, UX designers to understand customer usage models and develop test plans and suites that approximate real-world environments and regression tests driving the software development process toward quality-centric methodologies. You will develop automated tests to help fasten testing cycles and release faster to our customers. In this role, you will be responsible to deliver manual/automated solutions to test customer facing features.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience
- 1+ years of software QA testing work with writing the test plans, use cases, and issue reports experience
- Experience in manual testing, test planning, and creating detailed test cases
- Knowledge of QA methodology, industry-standard tools and bug tracking tools
- Experience in English-language communication skills, both written and verbal
- Can work proactively and independently, meet deadlines, and deliver on projects and tasks

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with at least one automated test framework like Selenium or Appium
- Experience in API & Mobile testing
- Experience working with REST API based services, or experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities and experience with threat modeling and penetration testing
- Experience working in a highly Agile/Scrum environment

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