Software Development Engineer - Test

Imagine what you could do here! The people here at Apple don’t just build products ― we craft the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that supports the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it.

The Input Experience Test Engineering team are seeking an experienced and highly motivated engineer with excellent communication, technical, and debugging skills to help us build and validate the future of our core systems and experiences. We are looking for critical thinkers who would like to play a key role in designing and implementing software architecture that ensures our exciting new and existing software features continue to surprise and delight our customers around the globe.

You will be responsible for building and deploying high performance and highly reliable testing at scale to ensure a consistently high quality standard for our products. In this role, you will be working on core input experience systems including Natural Language Processing, Internationalization, Pencil, Keyboards, and more. You will be responsible for taking ownership to drive all aspects of automated testing for this component and their integration across the system. You will be working with teams across the globe to support rapid code changes, articulate failures and identify issue trends as well as customer impact, create and maintain testing to validate new and existing feature, and contribute to frameworks that support reliable and rapid testing.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong programming and computer science fundamentals
• Experience with automation frameworks and tools development
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• Ability to work remotely and independently
• Detail oriented, analytical, and creative thinker with a passion for quality
• Strong problem solving skills to investigate and debug difficult problems
• Ability to function within a lean, agile, and fast-paced development environment
• Experience in developing test plans, risk assessment, and reporting
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Swift/Objective-C and Python
• Strong familiarity with Xcode and debugging tools
• Excellent working knowledge of iOS and macOS
• Japanese language proficiency or proficiency in a second language is a plus