About the position
At Apple you can be your best creative and professional self. The Camera & Photos team is devoted to fusing powerful hardware with exceptional software to enable millions to capture, preserve, and share cherished moments with their loved ones. Upholding the quality that epitomizes the Apple Promise requires a dedicated team of champions, and you could be one of them! The Photos Quality Engineering team is seeking a highly motivated and talented individual to join us in our commitment to deliver great photography software. As a crucial collaborator within and across teams, you will help define and ensure the application's quality, from user experience intricacies to low-level data validity, both on-device and in the cloud. This is a golden opportunity to apply your innate instincts to the products you already adore.
Responsibilities
- Focus on functional, regression, and integration testing for the Photos application across macOS and iOS.
- Investigate, triage, and escalate hard problems autonomously.
- Perform iterative software validation of existing and new features & technologies.
- Deliver timely and focused test updates.
- Monitor and triage automation results.
Requirements
- Experience in software test engineering, employing both manual and automated methods.
- Strong experience in writing and running test plans; discovering and documenting software and hardware defects; prioritizing and escalating problems to peers and management.
- Comfortable taking ownership of quality for specific projects & features, proactively resolving issues.
- Outstanding communication skills, demonstrated through precise and concise articulation in both written and spoken forms.
- Familiarity with Apple's hardware and software ecosystem.
Nice-to-haves
- Demonstrated leadership in guiding a team through the testing and delivery of interdependent features.
- Understanding with cloud syncing pipelines and infrastructure.
- Some experience developing test automation code in Python and/or XCUI.
- Proficiency in using common shell commands and a comfort level with CLI-based testing approaches.
- A high level of comfort in expressing well-thought-out opinions and meticulous attention to detail.
- A passion for delivering quality and bringing innovative solutions to testing needs.
- Love for photography and a drive to improve and celebrate it.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
- Retirement benefits.
- A range of discounted products and free services.
- Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition.
- Opportunity to participate in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs.
- Eligibility for discretionary bonuses or commission payments.
- Relocation assistance.
