Amazon Automation Engineer Jobs in Texas (NOW HIRING)

Application deadline: Aug 18, 2026
Join the team that powers sales compensation for thousands of AWS sellers worldwide and lead the automation strategy that ensures every dollar is calculated correctly. You'll design a UAT framework from the ground up, integrating AI to transform how we validate one of AWS's most critical people-facing systems.
GSC SysOps sits at the intersection of business operations and technology, managing the systems and quality assurance processes behind AWS's global sales compensation. As a UAT Automation Analyst, you will own the end-to-end design, development, and execution of automated User Acceptance Testing across all compensation workflows. You'll partner with compensation analysts, system engineers, and business stakeholders to translate complex business logic into repeatable, trustworthy test automation.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider, providing virtualized infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, and many other services to customers all over the world. AWS runs a globally distributed environment, operating at massive levels of scale and is growing at a staggering pace in terms of revenue, customers, people and complexity. Businesses, educational institutions, governments and non-profits depend on AWS for secure cloud services and solutions.
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Global Sales Compensation (GSC) Operations team is seeking a UAT Automation Analyst to join our Systems Operations team. As part of GSC SysOps, you will own the design, development, and execution of automated User Acceptance Testing across all sales compensation workflows within the Varicent ICM system, ensuring that every system change meets business requirements before reaching production. Objectives for this role will include building the UAT automation framework, orchestrating test execution across compensation workflows, integrating AI to increase testing efficiency, and driving continuous improvement in test coverage and reliability.
This role requires working with global business owners in HR, Legal, Sales, Finance, Sales Operations, Revenue, Segmentation, Product & Technology, and our Business Intelligence team to validate that system changes accurately reflect plan design, calculation logic, and payout execution. Cross-team coordination, time management, and excellent communication skills are essential. It is key that we pay employees on time and accurately.
Key job responsibilities
What you'll do:
- Design and maintain the UAT automation framework for compensation system releases
- Orchestrate UAT testing across all sales compensation workflows, ensuring every release meets business requirements before production
- Integrate AI capabilities to increase testing efficiency, coverage, and speed
- Build modular, data-driven test suites that validate end-to-end accuracy of compensation calculations
- Produce clear reporting that communicates test status, root causes, and traceability to business requirements
- Drive continuous improvement by reducing manual UAT effort and expanding automation coverage
- Assist with the distribution of incentive compensation plans, including plan set up, quota shifts, revenue adjustments, etc..
- Ensuring all compensation methodologies, policies, procedures and governance are followed.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders including, HR, Tax, and Legal to ensure all compensation methodologies, policies, and procedures are maintained in production
- Support the global quarterly commission payout process including manual compensation adjustments, calculations and approval process
- Create mechanisms to help improve efficiency of processes.
About the team
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Knowledge of writing and optimizing SQL queries in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets
- Experience managing test environments and understanding system dependencies
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of finance, business management and sales operations experience
- Experience working within a high-growth, technology company
- Experience with sales CRM tools such as Salesforce or similar software
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CO, Denver - 88,100.00 - 154,100.00 USD annually
USA, GA, Atlanta - 88,100.00 - 154,100.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Dallas - 88,100.00 - 154,100.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 88,100.00 - 154,100.00 USD annually