Quality & Test Automation Engineer - Xcode
The Xcode team provides the tools to develop software for Apple's innovative iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS and VisionOS platforms. Because tools are our products, software engineers on the Xcode team have the unique and rewarding opportunity to apply personal experience to enhance and augment the tools they use everyday. The Xcode team is looking for a detail-oriented and focused Quality Engineer with deep curiosity about how complex systems fail - and the initiative to find those failures before developers do.
This position involves not only ensuring that each of these features work but they also coalesce into a cohesive development environment. Responsibilities include API/Integration testing, manual/LiveOn testing, building test tools, developing automation platforms, and working to continuously improve Xcode's runtime tools - including profiling, debugging and memory diagnostics.
Description
We're looking for a highly creative and self-motivated individual, excellent at creating and maintaining tests/tools and communicating with the tools development team about feature quality - while also engaging compiler, runtime, and OS teams when issues cross those boundaries.
You'll be paired with a tools development team, and work with them to extend their automated testing to help ship a high quality Xcode and Instruments.
You'll have the opportunity to build shared APIs for testing, and be challenged to come up with testing strategies that maximize coverage of your component with minimal manual intervention. This includes reasoning about failure modes that span OS, compiler, and runtime boundaries - where the root cause of a bug may live far from where it surfaces.
In this position, you will:
Identify test scopes and develop quality plans for complex, dependency-heavy features across rapid development cycles.
Execute tests with attention to detail and communicate the overall quality to stakeholders.
* Drive teams to resolve issues, championing problems that degrade the developer experience in profiling, debugging, or memory analysis workflows.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with profiling, memory diagnostics, or other runtime analysis tools
Proven experience designing test strategies that account for complex failure modes and cross-system dependencies
Minimum Qualifications
BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Strong object-oriented programming experience in Swift and Objective-C, with Python or other scripting experience a plus.
Excellent troubleshooting skills with a passion for quality
Experience in writing automation tests at API, UI, and non-UI levels
Collaborative and curious contributor with a proactive communication and demonstrated ability to lead projects
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Ability to reason about how failures in dependent systems (OS, compiler, runtime) can surface in higher-level tools
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Pay & Benefits
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 $141,800 and $258,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
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