Software Development Engineer - Test, Device Partnerships, Prime Video
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Test and certify Prime Video features on living room devices while leveraging AI tools to improve testing speed and quality.
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 including Amazon Originals and exclusive licensed content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at any time 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.
Key job responsibilities
- Testing Prime Video features that run on Living Room devices (TVs, Set-top boxes)
- Manual test execution on devices
- Collaborating with device partners (TV manufacturers, Set-top box manufacturers) during the testing process
- Designing and developing the test-suite used to validate Prime Video features
- Collaborating with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to develop, maintain and fix tests, both manual and automated, based on test results
- Collaborating with other team members to ensure the Prime Video certification process maintains its high quality bar
- Leveraging AI to improve speed and quality of tests
About the team
The Device Partnerships organization works directly with third-party device manufacturers (e.g. Samsung, LG, Sony) and distributors to ensure that Prime Video works seamlessly on any living room device across the globe.
The certification team ensure that every living room device (TV, set-top box) delivers the high-quality experience that customers expect from Prime Video. This quality will be viewed by many millions of customers.
The team also manages and monitors the software running on these devices to ensure that they do not regress after they have been certified.
Basic qualifications
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience in penetration testing and exploitability-focused vulnerability assessment
- Experience in platform-level security mitigations and hardening for Linux and Windows
- 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
- Experience working with device technologies under development, familiarity with flashing firmware, basic device debugging and familiarity with reading/pulling device logs, or experience with REST web services, XML, JSON
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How we rate this
Software Development Engineer - Test, Device Partnerships, Prime Video at Amazon rates 40 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
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- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
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- Tell me about a project where software testing was part of your work. What did you do?
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