AWS Automation QA Engineer
Job Description
Area(s) of responsibility
Job Description – AWS QA Engineer (App Modernization & AI-driven Testing)
Role Overview
We are seeking a skilled AWS QA Engineer with strong experience in testing serverless and event-driven architectures. The role focuses on validating modern cloud-native applications built on AWS, ensuring high quality across application modernization programs, while leveraging AI-assisted testing using AWS Kiro.
Key Responsibilities
1. Functional & Automation Testing (AWS Serverless)
• Design, develop, and execute test strategies and test cases for applications built on:
o AWS Lambda, API Gateway
o Amazon EventBridge
o Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
• Validate event-driven and streaming workflows, including message processing and data consistency.
• Develop automated test scripts to validate:
o API responses
o Event flows and triggers
o Data persistence in DynamoDB / S3
2. Event-driven & Streaming Validation
• Create and execute test scenarios for:
o Kinesis stream data ingestion and processing
o Event orchestration via EventBridge
• Validate end-to-end workflows across microservices and serverless components.
• Perform integration testing and contract testing across services.
3. Application Modernization Testing
• Support testing for modernized applications (legacy → cloud-native).
• Perform:
o Functional testing
o Regression testing (pre/post migration comparison)
o System Integration Testing (SIT)
• Validate API-driven and microservices-based architectures [AWS Server...sting v1.0 | PowerPoint]
4. AI-driven Testing (Kiro)
• Leverage AWS Kiro for AI-assisted testing to improve productivity.
• Use AI for:
o Test case generation
o Test data preparation
o Automated validation and defect detection
• Contribute to AI-enabled quality engineering practices.
5. Performance, Reliability & Security Testing
• Execute:
o Performance and load testing for serverless workloads
o Resilience and failure scenario testing (event loss, retries, scaling)
• Validate:
o Security and access controls (IAM roles, authentication flows)
o Data integrity and system reliability
7. Collaboration & Communication
• Work closely with:
o Developers, Tech Leads, and Architects
o Customer stakeholders (as needed for validation and UAT)
• Participate in:
o Design discussions
o Test planning and defect triage
• Ensure clear communication of quality metrics and risks.
Required Skills & Experience
Core Testing & AWS Skills
• Strong experience in QA / Automation testing for cloud applications
• Hands-on experience with:
o AWS Lambda
o Amazon EventBridge
o Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
o API Gateway
o DynamoDB and S3
• Experience testing event-driven and serverless architectures
Test Automation & Tools
• Experience with:
o Automation frameworks (Jest framework, Java/Springboot, or similar)
o API testing tools (Postman, REST clients)
• Ability to:
o Create automated test suites
o Validate JSON-based inputs/outputs for APIs and events
• Knowledge of:
o BDD frameworks (Cucumber - good to have)
AI & Innovation
• Exposure to:
o AI-assisted testing (AWS Kiro preferred)
o Test automation using GenAI tools
• Interest in driving AI-enabled QA practices