DESCRIPTIONThe Kindle Ingestion and Expansion (KIX) team enables independent authors, content creators and publishers to publish their content as eBooks for distribution to the Kindle Store, Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library; as well as in print formats for sale on Amazon’s global marketplaces, bookstores and other online retailers using Amazon’s state-of-the-art Print on Demand (POD) technology. KIX is an important part of Amazon’s vision to provide its Kindle and print book customers with the world’s largest selection in the format they prefer – eBook or paperback.The KIX Support Engineering team provides tier 2&3 services production support and is also responsible for providing multifaceted services to the Kindle digital product family of development teams and working with production operations teams for software product release coordination and deployment. This job requires you to hit the ground running and your ability to learn quickly and work on disparate and overlapping tasks that will define your success.Key job responsibilities* Monitor & Drive team to Resolution of Trouble Tickets within defined SLA’s. Drive escalations to engineering team.* Drive Root Cause Analysis, Impact Analysis and Production Deployment support.* Build automated frameworks, tools, solutions to enable stakeholders/business owners monitor health/drive business outcomes.* Build a culture of direct code interaction by nurturing talent towards building applications/debugging & making code level fixes.* Regular interactions with various internal business-owners (like engineering teams) to help understand requirements & business priorities, define engagement model and drive improvements.* Developing support strategies and creating appropriate harnesses as well as pragmatic approaches for quick & effective support.* Resource planning to support various program asks.* Drive initiatives to maximize operational efficiency.* Defining measurable metrics to gauge progress against objective Support goals.* Build best-of-class support engineering teamAbout the teamThe Kindle Ingestion and Expansion (KIX) team enables independent authors, content creators and publishers to publish their content as eBooks for distribution to the Kindle Store, Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library; as well as in print formats for sale on Amazon’s global marketplaces, bookstores and other online retailers using Amazon’s state-of-the-art Print on Demand (POD) technology. KIX is an important part of Amazon’s vision to provide its Kindle and print book customers with the world’s largest selection in the format they prefer – eBook or paperback.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Chennai, TN, INDBASIC QUALIFICATIONSB.E. in Computer Science or a related field.1+ years of experience building, managing engineering teams.8+ years overall development/technical support experience.knowledge of programming, Operating System and Data structures concepts preferredComfortable communicating cross-functionally and across management levels in formal and informal settingsShows creativity and initiative to improve productivity using automation or creative processes.Ability to understand technical specifications, distributed systems architecture and ability to deep dive on service/application logsPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS* Hands-on technical expertise * Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems * Excellent verbal and written communication skills * Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment * Experience in preparing quality metrics and effectively engaging with stakeholders to set and drive quality goals.

Quality Assurance Tech (Level 3)

Amazon, Chennai, TN, IN

DESCRIPTIONQuality Assurance Tech at Amazon test cutting edge applications and products at the user level, both manually and with automated tools. They are excellent individual contributors capable of taking up tasks from start to completion, with guidance. QAT would be responsible for understanding the features and components and detailed functional requirements well enough, coming up with the test cases with some guidance, test execution and reporting with high bar on quality. QATs are technically savvy in use of software, computers and devices, runs automated scripts, analyzes failures, support automation, can install and configure software, can use debug settings, have technical ability to gather logs, traces, etc. to add to bug reports when provided with instructions. They assist developers or other testers and maintain a high quality test environment, recommends improvements to SOPs, tools and metrics.Key job responsibilities1. Testing Applications and Products both manually and using automated tools.2. Install and configure software, use debug settings and have technical ability to gather logs, traces, etc. to add to bug reports when provided with instructions.3. Run automated scripts, analyze failures, support automation.4. Identify issues, deep dive, troubleshoot, communicate to stake holders and escalation of issue and providing status reports5. Assist developers or other testers and maintain a high-quality test environment, recommends improvements to SOPs, tools and metrics.A day in the lifeThe Amazon Appstore team is looking for high-energy, detail-oriented, and technically-savvy QAT’s to perform test execution on Amazon’s devices and services. You will support test execution manually and through automated tools. You will troubleshoot using debug settings and share bug reports with necessary logs, run automated tests and analyze failures, identify, deep dive and report issues accurately. You will also challenge status quo and recommend improvements and help in maintaining the test environment, and report out test progress.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Chennai, TN, INDBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- - BS in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education- - Good analytical ability and QA acumen- - Ability to understand technical specifications and analyze log files- - Knowledge of QA methodology and toolsPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Preferably, have experience in Java/C++/Perl/Python based automation and/or user-level automation tools such as Selenium/Web Driver

Manager II Support Engineer

Amazon, Chennai, Tennessee

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - BS in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience - Dedicated and committed - External hires should have minimum of 7 - 10 years of relevant experience - Should have at least 2 year of experience in managing a team of 10-15 Engineers - Experience in hiring, recruiting, developing and promoting Technical Contributors and Engineers - Strong understanding of support processes - SLA, handling tickets, monitoring, processes and metrics. - Very strong stakeholder management and communication management. - Good command over Windows and Excel - Strong analytical skills and ability to work in an unstructured and evolving environment - Good people manager who can manage and motivate direct reports and get the best out of themDESCRIPTIONAmazon Music Imagine being a part of an agile team where your ideas have the potential to reach millions. Picture working on cutting-edge consumer-facing products, where every single team member is a critical voice in the decision-making process. Envision being able to leverage the resources of a Fortune-500 company within the atmosphere of a start-up. Welcome to Amazon Music, where ideas are born and come to life. Everyone on our team has a meaningful impact on product features, new directions in music streaming, and customer engagement. We are looking for new team members across a variety of job functions including software engineering/development, marketing, design, ops, and more. Come join us as we continue to make history by launching exciting new projects. Our team is focused on building a personalized, curated, and seamless music experience. We want to help our customers discover up-and-coming artists, while also having access to their favorite established musicians. We build systems that are distributed on a large scale, spanning our music apps, web player, and voice-forward audio engagement on mobile and Amazon Echo devices, powered by Alexa to support our customer base. Amazon Music offerings are available in countries around the world and our applications support our mission of delivering music to customers in new and exciting ways that enhance their day-to-day lives. Come innovate with the Amazon Music team! As a Support Engineering Manager for Amazon Music team you would be managing a talented team of support engineers resolving technical problems. You identify customer problems, demonstrate excellent judgement skills in decision making, mentoring and growing talent. You inspire people, motivate the team, drive the culture of innovation, implement support engineering best practices, and have commitment and grit to deliver results. You improve the customer experience with technical support, case escalations, and service quality. You are responsible for overall productivity, quality, and delivery of support engineering services. To make sure your team provide high quality support, you facilitate their connection to subject matter experts and learning opportunities. You are responsible for team schedules and goals. You help scope technical efforts and identify risks. You stay connected and resolve blockers. You communicate business updates, priorities, resolution status, and any challenges to your customers, stakeholders, and management. You manage escalations and make sure customer needs are met. You drive Operational Excellence that improve processes (e.g., automating ad-hoc or manual steps). You ensure team compliance with policies (e.g., information security, data handling, service level agreements.). You hold postmortems and document lessons-learned in COEs to ensure that problems don't repeat. Key Responsibilities Include: - Monitoring & Resolution of Trouble Tickets within defined SLA's. Drive escalations to engineering team. - Drive Root Cause Analysis, Impact Analysis and Production Deployment support. - Build automated frameworks, tools, solutions to enable stakeholders/business owners monitor health/drive business outcomes (For example: Automated Business/Product Metrics) - Build a culture of direct code interaction by nurturing talent towards building applications/debugging & making code level fixes. - Regular interactions with various internal business-owners (like engineering teams) to help understand requirements & business priorities, define engagement model and drive improvements. - Developing support strategies and creating appropriate harnesses as well as pragmatic approaches for quick & effective support. - Resource planning to support various program asks. - Drive initiatives to maximize operational efficiency. - Defining measurable metrics to gauge progress against objective Support goals. - Build best-of-class support engineering teamWe are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Chennai, TN, INDPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - BS in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience - External hires should have minimum of 7 - 10 years of relevant experience - Should have at least 2 year of experience in managing a team of 10-15 Engineers - Strong organizational skills, tracking multiple test executions simultaneously and ability to synthesize the results - Experience working and coordinating with distributed worldwide teams preferred - Shows creativity and initiative to improve productivity by Innovative means like Developing New tools - Proven ability to troubleshoot and identify the root cause of issues in complex Enterprise Level applications. - Demonstrated skill and passion for problem solving and operational excellence. Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer - Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual OrientationSalary: . Date posted: 04/16/2024 10:25 PM

Manager II, Support Engineer

Amazon, Chennai, Tennessee

BASIC QUALIFICATIONSB.E. in Computer Science or a related field. 2+ years of experience building, managing engineering teams. 9+ years overall development/technical support experience. knowledge of programming, Operating System and Cloud technology concepts preferred Comfortable communicating cross-functionally and across management levels in formal and informal settings Shows creativity and initiative to improve productivity using automation or creative processes. Ability to understand technical specifications, distributed systems architecture and ability to deep dive on service/application logsDESCRIPTIONThe eBook industry is in its early stages and is evolving rapidly. We are looking for excellent software engineers to join us in consistently improving our customer experience towards our goal of "Every book, ever written, in any language, all available in less than 60 seconds."The Kindle Store team builds and operates the Kindle books shopping experience across platforms around the world. This includes the shopping experience on the retail website, all e-ink and Kindle Fire devices and Kindle reading apps. Our charter is to build a store that makes it easy for customers to find content that is relevant to them.As a support engineer your work will involve: - Developing tools, applications, code improvements and scripts to resolve operational burden of support engineers and operations - Support engineering and troubleshooting on issues related to the digital platform services and content for various products - Interface with content acquisition, content providers, operations and technical teams to ensure content delivery as per service level agreements - Production builds, tools, and configuration management for software product releases and successful deployments.Key job responsibilities* Monitor & Drive team to Resolution of Trouble Tickets within defined SLA's. Drive escalations to engineering team.* Drive Root Cause Analysis, Impact Analysis and Production Deployment support.* Build automated frameworks, tools, solutions to enable stakeholders/business owners monitor health/drive business outcomes.* Build a culture of direct code interaction by nurturing talent towards building applications/debugging & making code level fixes.* Regular interactions with various internal business-owners (like engineering teams) to help understand requirements & business priorities, define engagement model and drive improvements.* Developing support strategies and creating appropriate harnesses as well as pragmatic approaches for quick & effective support.* Resource planning to support various program asks.* Drive initiatives to maximize operational efficiency.* Defining measurable metrics to gauge progress against objective Support goals.* Build best-of-class support engineering teamWe are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Chennai, TN, INDPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS* Hands-on technical expertise * Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems * Excellent verbal and written communication skills * Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment * Experience in preparing quality metrics and effectively engaging with stakeholders to set and drive quality goals.Salary: . Date posted: 04/16/2024 10:21 PM