Kiva Systems is an Amazon.com company...
*We are*hiring and growing like wild fire!* In addition to providing a great salary and benefits package, we offer a fantastic work culture which includes:
* Top notch management and talent resources
* High-energy, fast-paced and evolving work environment
* Fun!* Team get togethers other perks
* Growth opportunities and stability
* Opportunties to take a project and run with it; autonomy
* High employee morale

Kiva Systems, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, is continuing to experience high growth.* Kiva Systems, Inc. uses game-changing automation technology for distribution centers that helps companies simplify operations and reduce costs while increasing strategic flexibility. Using hundreds of autonomous mobile robots and sophisticated control software, the Kiva Mobile-robotic Fulfillment System enables extremely fast cycle times with reduced labor requirements, from receiving to picking to shipping.* *Visit our website at www.kivasystems.com.

For our growing team, Kiva is seeking a talented and motivated Software Engineer / Automation Engineer.* The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years experience using system-level automation tools and techniques, possess good communication skills, and enjoy problem solving both independently and in team settings.* This candidate should be incredibly sharp and possess the desire, drive and energy that is needed to launch new products on short time lines.* *This position reports to the Director of QA and Tools.

*As a Kiva Software QA Automation Engineer you will be responsible for:

• *Helping drive the Automation strategy throughout the Engineering organization
• Build out a test suite to cover system-level automated smoke, regression and functional tests
• Writing system and feature-based test plans from architectural functional specifications
• Manually executing complex test plans with an understanding of how to build new coverage into the existing Automation test suite
• Collaborate with development organization to understand how development changes affect ongoing Automation efforts
• Provide test coverage analysis based on automation results

*The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

• *BS or MS Degree in CS/EE or equivalent
• Excellent written and communication skills
• Linux/Unix operating system knowledge and shell scripting (bash)
• Minimum 2 years experience with Java and Java related unit testing environments (TestNG/JUnit)
• Minimum 2 years experience with at least the following languages: Python and/or Jython
• Working knowledge of Java Message Service (JMS), ApacheMQ, and Websphere MQ
• Working knowledge of relational databases (MySQL) and SQL querying tools
• Experience or firm knowledge of Service-orientated architecture (SOA)
• Experience or firm knowledge of testing

See our Careers page for a list of our current career openings at:* ** http://www.kivasystems.com/about-us-the-kiva-approach/careers-at-kiva/