Software Development Engineer - Test

Role Number: 200664683-0836

Summary

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined, and now, can’t imagine living without. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do.

Description

APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Develop, maintain, and scale automation infrastructure on premise and/or on cloud-based technologies. Design and develop automation test suites for applications. Write test plans, test scenarios and test cases for applications. Design and develop tools to facilitate automation and performance tests. Develop performance tests suites and executing the same. Design and develop reporting tool for automation and performance tests. Review implementation and certify software before being promoted to production. Work collaboratively with cross functional teams to review system and workflow requirements and design. Work, lead, and coordinate with onsite and offshore teams to facilitate test automation. Design and develop the testing infrastructure i.e. tools, frameworks, reporting mechanisms to test software and services. Integrate the test suites and infrastructure with the Cl/CD systems to ensure all the tools and services developed meet the quality goals. Write different types of tests namely unit, integration, smoke, performance tests for existing and new projects to ensure a bug free and high-quality software is delivered to customers. Familiarize with new testing tools and strategies and evaluate the technologies to incorporate into the projects. Work collaboratively with other manual and automation team members to develop effective testing strategies as well as quality metrics for new and existing features. 40 hours/week. At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $182,127 - $220,900/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

PAY & BENEFITS: Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits: Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related field and 5 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

• Experience and/or education must include:

• Building automation tools and frameworks for testing web services such as REST and gRPC.

• Performing Web and UI automation using Selenium or Appium or Playwright.

• Working in Java programming (JDK 11 or newer) with experience in scripting using Python and Shell.

• Analyzing test results and providing actionable feedback to improve software quality.

• Documenting test plans, authoring and executing test cases, and adeptly discerning the automation scope in alignment with product design and implementation.

• Investigating, debugging and triaging difficult problems both independently and cooperatively.

• Utilizing performance testing tools such as JMeter and Gatling.

• Testing data pipelines and messaging platforms like Kafka.

• Writing complex SQL queries, with experience in one relational and one non-relational (NoSQL) databases.

• Working with cloud platforms, notably AWS (with AWS SDK) and/or GCP.

• Web development and using application frameworks including Spring, and developing efficient, lightweight web-services.

• Working with DevOps and CI/CD processes and utilizing tools including Jenkins or Github.

Preferred Qualifications

• N/A