Amazon Hiring QA Tech 1 Freshers | Bengaluru

Amazon is hiring a Quality Assurance Tech 1 in Bengaluru (Job ID 10595858), under its ADCI Karnataka entity and the Systems, Quality and Security Engineering family. Students who are enrolled in or have completed a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field can apply. The role is about testing software, writing automation and reporting issues before customers see them.

Amazon QA Tech 1 Job Overview

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What does a Software Quality Engineer do at Amazon?

The posting describes the Software Quality Engineer path as one where you use technology to solve complex problems and see the impact quickly. Quality engineers at Amazon work on services that touch millions of customers and sellers, in development cycles measured in weeks, not years. The team's stated aim is to push the software process toward quality-focused methods and to reduce overall QA effort through automation, tools and process changes.

Your day to day, built from the listed duties, would look like this:

• Read a feature or service and understand the product in detail before testing it.
• Write a test strategy and test plan, then turn it into test cases and get those signed off with stakeholders.
• Run functional regression and integration tests, and report results clearly.
• Write automated tests using scripting tools and user level tools such as Selenium.
• Look for scaling and security problems in distributed, service oriented systems.
• Suggest improvements to systems, tools and processes, and work with the developers who maintain the product.

The languages named in the posting are Java, C++, C#, SQL, Perl, Python and JavaScript. You are not expected to master all of them. The qualification section asks for knowledge of at least some of C, C++, Python, Java or Perl.

Eligibility criteria

Basic qualifications (from the posting):

• You are enrolled in or have completed a bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field at the time of application.
• Knowledge of programming languages such as C, C++, Python, Java or Perl.
• Knowledge of computer science fundamentals: object oriented design, operating systems, algorithms, data structures and complexity analysis.

Preferred qualifications:

• Technical internship experience or demonstrated project experience.
• A bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent, or experience with distributed, multi tiered systems, algorithms and relational databases.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and clear communication, or experience managing and troubleshooting networks.
• The ability to explain technical challenges and solutions.
• Experience with optimization mathematics such as linear programming.

The posting does not state a graduation year, a percentage cut off or a number of years of experience. Do not assume any. If your degree year is unusual, read the posting on Amazon's site and confirm with the recruiter contact listed there.

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Is this job right for you?

It suits you if:

• You like finding what is wrong with something and explaining it clearly.
• You enjoy writing small scripts and want to grow into automation.
• You are curious about how large services work, including what happens when traffic grows or something fails.

Think twice if:

• You want a pure software development role. QA at Amazon involves writing code, but the main goal is quality, not building features.
• You prefer long periods without feedback. Weekly cycles mean frequent releases and frequent checks.
• You expect a fixed salary figure. Pay is not stated in the listing, so you will learn it only if you reach the offer stage.

A realistic day in the life

Imagine a morning where the team has a new release due. You read the change description, check the test plan and run the regression suite. A test fails. You look at logs, work out whether the product or the test is wrong, then raise a defect with steps to reproduce. In the afternoon, you extend an automated test so the same bug cannot slip through again, and you join a short call with the developer who owns the service. This is an illustration built from the duties listed, not a description of a specific team.

How to prepare: a 7 day plan

General guidance for QA and testing interviews, not Amazon's confirmed process:

1. Day 1: Revise testing basics: test levels, regression versus smoke, severity versus priority, bug life cycle.
2. Day 2: Revise core data structures: arrays, linked lists, hash maps, stacks and queues. Solve three easy problems.
3. Day 3: Revise object oriented design: classes, inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, with a small example.
4. Day 4: Learn operating system basics: processes, threads, memory, deadlocks.
5. Day 5: Write a short Selenium script in Python or Java that opens a page, fills a form and checks a result.
6. Day 6: Practise SQL: joins, group by, filtering. Write five queries on a sample table.
7. Day 7: Mock interview: explain a project aloud, and describe a time you found and fixed a bug.

You can pair this plan with the aptitude test preparation guide if the company runs an online screening.

Sample questions and answer hints

These are common in QA interviews. They are general guidance, not the company's question list.

• How would you test a login page? Cover valid and invalid input, empty fields, lockout rules, password reset, security checks and different browsers.
• What is the difference between severity and priority? Severity is the impact of the bug; priority is how soon it should be fixed.
• What makes a good automated test? It is repeatable, independent, fast and gives a clear failure message.
• How do you find the cause of a failing test? Reproduce it, read logs, isolate the change, then decide whether the product or the test is wrong.
• What is the time complexity of searching in a hash map? Average constant time, worst case linear.

Skills to build next

If you land this role, the growth path commonly runs from QA technician to quality engineer, then into automation or software development engineer in test. Useful skills to build in the meantime:

• One language well enough to write a clean script, ideally Python or Java.
• API testing with a tool such as Postman, and basic understanding of REST.
• Version control with Git and a simple CI idea such as running tests on each commit.
• Basics of cloud and distributed systems, since the posting names distributed, service oriented software.

Application checklist

• Update your resume with projects, internships and the languages you can actually use. Our resume tips for freshers page shows a clean layout.
• Keep your degree, marksheets and ID ready. See the documents required for job applications list.
• Check that your name, phone and email match on your resume and application.
• Apply from Amazon's official careers site only, and note the Job ID 10595858.

Stay safe from fake offers

Amazon does not ask candidates to pay for a job. If someone asks for money or sends you a link that is not on amazon.jobs, stop. Our guide on how to identify fake job offers explains the usual warning signs.

How to apply

1. Open the official posting using the link in the Apply button on this page.
2. Read the basic and preferred qualifications and compare them honestly with your profile.
3. Create or sign in to your candidate profile, and upload a one page resume.
4. Submit, and keep a note of the date and the Job ID.