INTERVIEW PREP

Quality
Assurance Engineer
WHAT DOES A QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER (QAE)
DO AT AMAZON?

Quality Assurance Engineers (QAE) are responsible for the overall end-end
quality of a product. They deeply understand the product, its features, and
ensure that the code, components and features are tested appropriately.
They are involved in and take ownership of the test process from beginning
to final product delivery which involves end–end quality testing, debugging,
and trouble shooting.

QAE’s work with Developers, Technical Program Managers, Product Managers

and SDETs to define feature requirements, understand what they are
implementing, gather requirements and be the voice of the customer and
responsible for testing these features, devices, applications, services or other
product types.

They lead the design, implementation and execution of test plans, come up
with test strategies, test framework, test plans, automate to test features by
writing test scripts. They also may require to create larger tools, scale up test
strategy, coverage, process and execution. They assess and report on the
quality of product components/ features. They work with team owners to
ensure code, components and features are tested at the appropriate level.

Want to become a QAE at Amazon? Let’s walk through some helpful tips for
the interview process.
How to prepare for a QAE Interview:

Be prepared to discuss your areas of Prepare to talk about some interesting

responsibilities and technologies listed
on your resume. You could be asked to
provide examples where you
demonstrated experience or a
hypothetical questions on Test
Requirement and Test Strategy/
Planning, Automation Delivery
including Test Automation Strategy;
Test Execution, Test Process
Improvements and Debugging.
bugs that you have encountered, helped
troubleshoot, and found a solution for.
Think about a process you initiated to
improve, how bugs could be found
while testing instead of in-production,
or one that made the software cycle
easier.

Prepare to dive deep on how you have

set up test environments, bug isolation
and reporting.

Technical tips

You should be familiar with one of the You should be proficient on test
prominent coding languages such as methodologies, test automation, and
Java, Python C++/C , C# etc. to be able debugging, and problem solving.
to write code/script on a text editor/
LiveLink or on the whiteboard without
the use of IDE/Compiler. Do not use You should be able to use technical
pseudo-code to solve the problem. expertise to create, execute, and
optimize test plans and automation for
difficult scenarios.
You should be able to understand and
discuss the use of appropriate data
structures to automate their tests.
White boarding

Be prepared to whiteboard on Engage with your interviewer and

automation design, test planning and think out loud as you come up with
coding. your solution or code.

There are no trick questions but
questions may be intentionally vague
to assess your innovation and thought
process in dealing with ambiguous
situations.
Ensure the code is optimized and
workable, test the code looking for
boundary cases.

Ask clarifying questions first, gather all Prepare to whiteboard on test

the requirements before you come up
with your Design or code.
planning, automation design, or test
case strategy either on a hypothetical
scenario or from an example that you
provide. Prepare to talk in depth about
systems you have tested.

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