Senior Software QA Engineer

Seattle , Washington , United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: Nov 30, 2020

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200208430

The Apple Media Products 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.

Key Qualifications

• Comfortable and adaptable in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and creative thinking skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Strong commitment to technical quality assurance as a key part of the software development cycle. Willingness to work cross-functionally.
• Results-oriented, persistent, and meticulous.
• Experience writing automation using Python, JavaScript scripting and user-level automation for iOS.
• Familiarity with Objective-C or Swift is a plus.
• Knowledge in SQL, CSS, HTML, JSON a plus.

Description

The Apple Media Products Analytics QA team is responsible for the Quality and integrity of the data collected and reported on customer experience data. Responsibilities include: writing test descriptions, performing functional and regression tests, writing test case automation while working closely with other teams. We are seeking iOS/Mobile test Engineers to contribute to the product level validation as well as the backend validation on the latest iOS, tvOS, watchOS, iTunes supported platforms . Day to day work involves bug reporting and isolation, test plan documentation, writing test case automation and working closely with other teams (engineering, project management, etc.). This position demands a self-motivated individual with strong technical and communication skills who can contribute in a team environment. Possess exceptional analytical skills in test case design and bug diagnosis. Be dynamic and prepared to test/regress a high volume of changes on a day-to-day basis. Demonstrate excellent bug reporting skills and the ability to communicate clearly with third parties. Candidate should have the ability to convert manual tests to automated tests on a ongoing basis.

Education & Experience

Bachelors degree or equivalent relevant experience