Amazon Support Services PtyLtd Hiring for Software Development Engineer – Test- Advertising Job at Melbourne, Australia Full Time

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or above.
• 5+ years of overall non-internship professional software development testing experience.
• 2+ years of experience building test automation frameworks and tools
• Participate in the full development life cycle, working within broadly defined parameters, including test plan execution and software quality needs.
• Writing and executing test plans, designing and developing test tools, debugging and reporting code bugs and pushing quality upstream.
• Delivery of software development test suites and frameworks.
• Management and execution of project test plans and meeting delivery commitments.
• Work closely with the technical leaders to develop the best technical design and approach for testing our functionality at scale.
• Build software solutions where the problem is not well defined. You are capable of understanding the interaction between the components in a distributed system in order to ensure they are functioning properly.
• Create and execute appropriate quality plans, project plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts.
• Strong analytic and problem solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Job summary

Are you passionate about developing real-time, distributed, large-scale services? Like to interact with worldwide advertising customers to build systems that makes advertising and it’s functions automated and frictionless? Interested in being part of a worldwide Advertising Engineering team? Then, our Software Development team wants you!

Come join us as an Software Development Engineer – Test (SDET)!

Amazon Advertising is looking for an SDET who shares our passion for delivering global, scalable, extensible, and secure services to support advertisers.

As a SDET, you will become part of a highly motivated team of talented multi-functional builders (front and backend developers) who can collaborate with product managers, technical specialists, and principals across the company. Your team will support the global technology roadmap for our advertising Availability, Quality and Infrastructure technology teams, and help architect, design and build test suites and frameworks to push our advertising systems to their limits and beyond. You will work with program management, development teams and our QA organization to scope out features and understand the customer requirements, then work side-by-side with the team to ensure the quality of our system. You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that’s higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that, haven’t been solved at scale before – anywhere. You will encounter challenging, novel situations every day and given the size of this initiative, you’ll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. We’re looking for self-motivated Testing engineers who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, can demonstrate a high degree of teamwork, and want to have fun while they make history and collaborate on beautiful products.

A successful candidate will have a demonstrated track record of delivering test automation, quality requirements, designing performance and scale test suites and producing deliverables that exceed commitments. You should also be comfortable presenting technical material to internal and external audiences in support of our customers. Candidates should be able to develop test frameworks, define and implement functional tests, perform failure testing with fault injection, understand complex distributed system architecture, design and develop performance and stress tests.

Key Technical Challenges:
Distributed and Scalable Architecture: The global Ads Availability team owns Tier 1 critical service infrastructure that forms the backbone of Ad serving. We have enabled this service infrastructure across multiple regions and Availability Zones.

High Availability: This role will provide critical support to the Global Ads Availability team that owns a key Ads wide Availability framework. It is critical to ensure that this framework remains highly available. High Availability architecture will help us make sure that the system is configured to handle different loads and different failures with minimal or no downtime.

Security is at the heart of all operations. This role will collaborate with Global teams to ensure Advertising services remain highly secure.

Key job responsibilities

• Business problem is defined. Technology strategy may not be defined.
• Delivers independently, with limited guidance.
• Solves complex software problems. Solutions are extensible and scale. Removes bottlenecks. Makes trade-offs: short-term vs. long-term technical decisions.
• Designs, develops, tests, and deploys software.
• Lead large projects. Knows how to divide so they can work in parallel with other SDEs and reassemble into a cohesive launch.
• 100% AWS Technologies
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field
• Experience working in a cloud based development and production environment such as AWS
• Knowledge of industry standard test automation tools and experience developing product test frameworks
• Experience with open source tools and resources