## Tasks
**AWS QA Engineer (App Modernization & AI-driven Testing)**
**Duration: 4 -6 months**
**Location: London -Hybrid (3 Days onsite)**
**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**
**Functional & Automation Testing (AWS Serverless)**
* Design, develop, and execute **test strategies and test cases** for applications built on:
* AWS Lambda, API Gateway
* Amazon EventBridge
* Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
* Validate **event-driven and streaming workflows**, including message processing and data consistency.
* Develop automated test scripts to validate:
* API responses
* Event flows and triggers
* Data persistence in DynamoDB / S3
**Event-driven & Streaming Validation**
* Create and execute test scenarios for:
* **Kinesis stream data ingestion and processing**
* Event orchestration via EventBridge
* Validate **end-to-end workflows across microservices and serverless components**.
* Perform **integration testing and contract testing** across services.
**Application Modernization Testing**
* Support testing for **modernized applications (legacy → cloud-native)**.
* Perform:
* Functional testing
* Regression testing (pre/post migration comparison)
* System Integration Testing (SIT)
* Validate **API-driven and microservices-based architectures** \[AWS Server...sting v1.0 | PowerPoint\]
**AI-driven Testing (Kiro)**
* Leverage **AWS Kiro for AI-assisted testing** to improve productivity.
* Use AI for:
* Test case generation
* Test data preparation
* Automated validation and defect detection
* Contribute to **AI-enabled quality engineering practices**.
**Performance, Reliability & Security Testing**
* Execute:
* Performance and load testing for serverless workloads
* Resilience and failure scenario testing (event loss, retries, scaling)
* Validate:
* Security and access controls (IAM roles, authentication flows)
* Data integrity and system reliability
**Automation & DevOps Integration**
* Build and maintain **automated testing frameworks** for AWS workloads.
* Integrate testing into **CI/CD pipelines**.
* Enable automated validation for:
* Serverless APIs
* Event-driven systems
* Ensure **continuous testing and fast feedback cycles**.
## Requirements
**Required Skills & Experience**
**Core Testing & AWS Skills**
* Strong experience in **QA / Automation testing for cloud applications**
* Hands-on experience with:
* AWS Lambda
* Amazon EventBridge
* Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
* API Gateway
* DynamoDB and S3
* Experience testing **event-driven and serverless architectures**
* **Test Automation & Tools**
* Experience with:
* Automation frameworks (Jest framework, Java/Springboot, or similar)
* API testing tools (Postman, REST clients)
* Ability to:
* Create automated test suites
* Validate JSON-based inputs/outputs for APIs and events
* Knowledge of:
* BDD frameworks (Cucumber - good to have)
**Application Modernization Testing**
* Experience in testing:
* Microservices architectures
* API-first systems
* Strong understanding of:
* Integration flows
* Data validation across distributed systems
**AI & Innovation**
* Exposure to:
* **AI-assisted testing (AWS Kiro preferred)**
* Test automation using GenAI tools
* Interest in driving **AI-enabled QA practices**
**DevOps & Engineering Practices**
* Experience integrating tests within:
* CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
* Familiarity with:
* Infrastructure as Code validation (CDK)
* Monitoring tools (CloudWatch)
**Preferred Qualifications**
* AWS Certified (Developer or Cloud Practitioner)
* Experience with:
* Streaming platforms (Kafka/MSK)
* Performance and security testing tools
* Exposure to **enterprise-scale AWS modernization programs**