What are the responsibilities and job description for the SDET (Level 5), Amazon Aurora Performance position at Amazon?
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Job summary
As a Software Development Engineer in Test for AWS Aurora, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive, design and develop innovative consumer products. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.
As a Software Development Engineers in Test, you will develop, execute and maintain software to test the product. You are expected to have industry-leading technical abilities that enable you to significantly improve product quality. You should have a combination of solid in-depth knowledge of Quality Assurance, as well as knowledge of object oriented design principles. The test software you will build should expose defects in production level code as well as defects at the component and feature integration perspective. You should command the skill to communicate clearly and effectively.
A candidate will need to define automation strategy, automation cases as well as design tools for unit, functional, and performance testing in a programmatic manner. In addition, you will also have the opportunity to propose improvements to our existing processes and automated tools in order to improve the team’s speed, quality and efficiency.
As a Software Development Engineers in Test, you will have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of technologies from front-end UI to back-end distributed web services. You will own the design and implementation of tests that will help in end-to-end quality of major deliverables working closely with multiple engineers and teams to execute them. Scaling, reusability, and customer experience are top priorities as the business grows.
If you enjoy broadening your technical skills, building a new tools, and working in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and innovation, then this is the job for you!
About the team
Amazon Aurora is one of the fastest growing AWS services, providing and managing relational databases as a service. We take relational open source databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL to their limits - our customers rely on Amazon Aurora databases for their business and due to our scale, we solve challenges no other database environment sees.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- 3 years of experience as an SDET, developer, or strong Automation Engineer
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, e.g. Python, Java, C#, or C
- Proficient in OOO design
- Proven experience creating automation frameworks and tools to support test automation
- Experience with Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis
- Good Analytical skills.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with QA concepts and methodology.
- Experience working in a UNIX/Linux environment and utilizing virtual machines
- Knowledge of industry standard test automation tools and experience developing product test harnesses
- Experience mentoring/training the engineering community on complex technical issues
- Experience working closely with development and business teams.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills
- Debugging/troubleshooting experience on performance and stability tools
- Experience with Continuous Integration
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