Tools and Automation Engineer

San Diego, California, United States
Software and Services

Summary

Posted:
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200567862
Apple has a world-class reputation for product quality, and we need your help to keep those high standards across Apple’s entire ecosystem of products, with respect to Performance! We're looking for critical thinkers who would like to play a key role in our quality engineering process, working in a fast-paced environment across a range of technologies to help us ensure we have best-of-class Performance. The ideal candidate should be self-motivated, passionate about quality, and an excellent critical thinker, problem solver, and communicator.

Description

Responsible for maintaining automated or manual test execution suites, analyzing test results, reproducing and reporting issues, assisting in identifying and reproducing test blocking and automation blocking bugs, and interacting with cross-functional team members for performance-related tasks and deliverables. Responsibilities also include troubleshooting and debugging any issues with automation and automated tests. Develop, modify, and execute software test plans and maintain documentation of test results to assist in debugging and modification of software and tuning hardware. You will be running many automated tests at a time across different scenarios and different device models on a large scale, keeping careful track of all the results, schedules while proactively uncovering issues, and proposing ideas for improvement.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in SQE methodologies and practices
  • Excellent understanding and application of scripting language, such as Python
  • Good debugging, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills
  • Familiarity with automated test execution and maintaining automated tests
  • Work on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors

Key Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

  • System level knowledge on software and hardware is preferred
  • Familiarity with command line tools and environments such as shell scripting and bash
  • Experience in continuous integration tooling (e.g. Jenkins) is preferred
  • Excellent communication skills, both oral and written

Education & Experience

Additional Requirements

Pay & Benefits

  • Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.