QA Automation Engineer (Media Content)

Overview:

Job Title: Content Tools QA Team

Important:

• Willing to work in Culver City, CA
• Need prior experience in Media Content Functional and Automation testing.

Role Descriptions:

• We are seeking an enthusiastic and collaborative QA Engineer who has the curiosity to break things to join our Digital Supply Chain Engineering team within ASE.

• In this role, you'll be working with the ASE Content Tools team to create new services and tools for managing and distributing Apple's vast media content.

• You will be responsible for testing tools, software and services to ensure seamless integration for our products in order to deliver the highest quality customer experience.

• As a member of the Quality Team, you will play a key part in defining test strategies, writing automation scripts and communicating quality status.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and maintain manual and automated test cases for web applications.

• Build and extend automated UI test suites using Playwright and/or Selenium.

• Perform API testing (REST/JSON) using tools such as Postman, REST Assured, or equivalent libraries.

• Investigate, reproduce, and clearly document defects with steps, expected vs. actual behavior, logs, and screenshots.

• Collaborate with developers and product on requirements review, test planning, and release readiness.

• Participate in regression, smoke, and exploratory testing cycles.

• Contribute to continuous improvement of test strategy, tooling, and CI integration.

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.

• 1-3 years of professional QA experience testing web applications.

• Hands-on experience writing automation scripts (Selenium/Playwright/Python/Java).

• Working knowledge of API testing concepts ( methods, status codes, request/response validation, authentication).

• Familiarity with version control (Git) and defect tracking tools (Jira or similar).

• Strong written and verbal communication; clear, reproducible bug reports.

Nice-to-Haves

• Familiarity or experimentation with AI tooling in QA workflows.

• Experience working within Digital Supply Chain or Content Management systems.

• Master's degree in computer science or related field.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in related field with demonstrated experience in Quality Engineering