Senior Software Automation Engineer Apple Services Engineering
Seattle, Washington, United States
Software and Services
The Apple Services Engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple’s long-held passion for combining art and technology. These are the people who power the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books. And they do it on a massive scale, meeting Apple’s high expectations with high performance to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 35 languages to more than 150 countries. These engineers build secure, end-to-end solutions. They develop the custom software used to process all the creative work, the tools that providers use to deliver that media, all the server-side systems, and the APIs for many Apple services. Thanks to Apple’s unique integration of hardware, software, and services, engineers here partner to get behind a single unified vision. That vision always includes a deep commitment to strengthening Apple’s privacy policy, one of Apple’s core values. Although services are a bigger part of Apple’s business than ever before, these teams remain small, nimble, and cross-functional, offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities here.
The ideal candidate has a passion for music, experience using Apple Music across the Apple ecosystem, a solid black-box QA background and experience testing web applications.
Key Qualifications
- Experience testing iOS applications.
- Experience with the Apple software and hardware ecosystem.
- Experience testing cloud-based, client/server and/or RESTful API technologies.
- Python/Swift/UI Automation Experience with desktop or mobile apps.
- Proficiency in manual/UI testing and willingness to engage in both
- Must have a solid understanding of SQA methodologies and practices.
- Proven bug detection and regression skills.
- Experience reporting and tracking bugs and third-party issues.
- Extensive use of QA tools and networking tools.
- Strong technical and troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Comfortable and adaptable in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with other teams to coordinate testing responsibilities.
- Ability to lead projects and contribute as part of a team.
Description
You will be joining a team dedicated to delivering the best in class music experience for our customers. Your main focus will be ensuring the quality of our music applications as well as interoperability with the entire Apple Music ecosystem. You will be responsible for defining test approaches and plans for assigned functional areas, growing our current test cases and executing required tests. You will own complete functional areas and must be able to define qualification strategies, as well as execute functionality, compatibility, integration and reliability testing for applications that are part of a sophisticated mobile, desktop, web and cloud client/server ecosystem. You are a self-motivated, dynamic and detail-oriented individual with a strong technical background and excellent black box testing skills. In addition, this position requires an individual able to contribute at a high level in a fast-paced cross functional team environment with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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Education & Experience
BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.