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Amazon Software Engineer in Test, Prime Video - Cross Platform and Living Room Player in London, United Kingdom
Description
Come build the future of entertainment with us.
Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching?
Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows from Originals and Exclusive content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 240 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.
We are looking for a Software Developer Engineer in Test to join the Prime Video Cross Platform and Living Room Player team. We develop the video player components running on a vast array of devices from Smart TVs to Set top boxes and Game consoles. Living Room Player team is building and deploying optimized native components as well as platform independent, scriptable components and cloud based infrastructure to power video playback on millions of living room devices.
Key job responsibilities
Our team is looking for a talented SDET to help us shape the future of video across our Core Player for all of our Living Room device families. You will work on implementing and extending test automation for our Cross Platform Player and for Living Room Devices and solving hard challenges requiring creative solutions such as as automating a wide array of AV tests ultimately enabling our team to safely scale our tests and deployments across 800+ devices. You will lead the automation efforts on our team as well as contribute across teams to help our partners automate their onboarding to Prime Video with automated certification tests.
You will answer question such as "how do we automatically test subtitles without manual intervention?" or "How can we cut the speed of our automated releases in half?" as well implement these solutions.
You will utilize test automation, continuous integration and agile development methodologies to help deploy and automate the deployment of the Prime Video Player across the world.
A day in the life
You will architect automation solutions across multiple teams, prototype and implement new tests, influence technology choices as well as propose frameworks and develop automated test cases.
About the team
Prime Video is available in over 1 billion Living Room devices globally. Our team provides the playback experience for hundreds of millions weekly customer sessions. We delight our customers with new features and improvements continuously in an Agile environment. We obsess over reliability, quality and latency of playback. A successful candidate is able to learn quickly, delivers results in collaboration with our Cross Platform and Living Room Playback teams, insists on highest standards, has the ability to dive deep and looks at every opportunity to automate to help us operate at scale.
Basic Qualifications
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
Experience in professional, non-internship software development
Experience building test automation frameworks and tools
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance in a database environment
Experience with security in service-oriented architectures and web services
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