Software Automation QA Engineer - Security
The SPEAR team in Apple's Security Engineering & Architecture organization is hiring a collaborative software quality assurance engineer with a drive to ensure the quality of ambitious software security features.
SPEAR is a dedicated team of engineers who work on security hardening across all of Apple's operating systems. We work in a variety of codebases in all layers of the software stack. We develop meaningful and impactful security features that require meticulous test development and execution to land cleanly and successfully. Our work results in major improvements to the security of Apple's apps and services without compromising the polished user experience over a billion users rely on every day.
As a Quality Assurance engineer in SPEAR, you will test SPEAR's features to ensure they achieve their security goals while maintaining functionality, stability, and performance requirements. You will work side-by-side with SPEAR software developers during all project phases, collaborating on feature definition, quality plan, and test development. You will gain experience testing software across a wide range of Apple's software stack. Your work will be key to the SPEAR team's goal of exceeding partner teams' expectations for feature quality.
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Description
As an Automation QA Engineer in the SPEAR team, you will be qualifying a variety of SPEAR-developed features.
This will include:
- Coordinating with feature teams to embrace existing automation suites.
- Develop comprehensive feature test plans to ensure the feature achieves its goals without regressing functionality, performance, power, or stability.
- Implement new tests when needed to achieve adequate coverage.
- Automate end-to-end and unit-level testing.
- Manage automated testing and triage test failures.
- Report on testing status and follow up to ensure regressions are addressed.
Preferred Qualifications
3+ years of iOS and/or macOS QA experience
Comprehension of XCTest framework
Analytical skills to independently perform first-level triage on test failures
Meticulous approach to understanding, documenting, and completing test requirements
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent experience
Software skills with automation languages such as Python and Swift
Demonstrated experience creating tests that identify deep software bugs
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively about technical topics (verbal and written)
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