Sr Software Development Test Engineer at Amazon Development Centre in Cape Town

Job Title: Senior Software Development Test Engineer

Amazon Development Centre South Africa is looking for passionate software test engineers to join us and help to maintain a high bar for the quality of our services and tools. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. The Cape Town based Development Center plays a key role in building the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is the web service that is pioneering cloud computing by providing resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It gives any developer complete control of their computing resources and lets them run on Amazon's proven computing environment. We are continuing to build the team in order to expand on our feature set and manage our rapidly increasing scale.

The ideal candidate will be clearly passionate about the large opportunity that Amazon EC2 presents and about web services in general. This person is hands-on, results-oriented, and innovative and has a passion for quality. You'll be challenged to build sophisticated test automation for systems ranging from browser based applications through to large scale distributed services. If you are motivated, energetic and want to have an impact on this rapidly growing service then drop us a line.

The following will ensure a successful application:

    Experience with software quality and testing methodologies
    Experience with test automation tools
    Experience building test automation using testing frameworks like Selenium, FitNesse, xUnit
    Familiarity with the GNU/Linux tool stack is an advantage.
    Experience with scripting languages like Ruby, Python, Perl is also an advantage
    Experience with virtualization is an advantage.
    Relentless customer focus
    Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities.
    Excellent written communication and verbal agility are strong assets.
    Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent

Amazon.com offers a demanding, exciting and rewarding experience, with opportunities to work with the world's best computer scientists on some of the most interesting problems.

Deadline Date: 28.02.2014
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