Software Development Engineer in Test

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Apple's IS&T team is looking for a passionate Software Quality Engineer to contribute to design, analysis and certification of our applications. We are looking for someone who is equally passionate about quality and using lightweight processes to consistently achieve it. The role would also involve interacting with multi-functional engineering and product teams to test features, perform root cause analysis, and drive the quality of customer's experience.

Description
In this role, you will be involved in quality engineering for critical customer facing applications, work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and be directly responsible for:

- The quality of Apple's products, including consistent functionality, performance and stability

- Understanding new and existing feature implementations in order to craft informed, robust testing charters

- Authoring and reviewing test scenarios, scripts and plans

- Conduct functional, regression, performance, and security testing using automation tools

- Identifying and report defects, inclusive of first-level root cause analysis and consistent steps to reproduce

- Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks, scripts, and test cases for web, API, and mobile applications

- Collaborate with developers, product managers, and QA teams to define test strategies and acceptance criteria

- Implement CI/CD pipeline integration to enhance automated testing execution

- Analyze test results, report defects, and track issues using defect management tools

- Continuously improve test automation frameworks and enhance testing efficiency

- Championing quality efforts beyond test execution, including collaborating with test automation engineering teams, product management teams and engineering program teams

Minimum Qualifications
4 to 8 years experience in software quality assurance testing

Strong practical 2 years experience in automation with Java, Python and/or Swift or any OO language

Experience in testing API/Web Service, Web apps or Mac/iOS/iPadOS native applications

Strong hands-on experience on Core Java, Karate, RestAssured, Playwright/Selenium, Appium/XCUI or similar frameworks

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications
Good knowledge of automation framework architecture, design and development

Expertise in QE processes, tools and metrics

Experience in Maven/Gradle and Git repositories is required

Experience of working in Agile development environment with high quality product

Solid understanding of software build tools, CI/CD integrations, deployment process and code quality checking tools

Understands logs scanning to identify the errors and root cause

Experience in testing microservices and cloud-based applications

Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills

Hunger to learn and explore new technologies which will optimise the existing solutions

Hands on experience with Load, Resiliency & Performance testing. Exposure to Jmeter/Gatling/Locust performance testing framework

Experience with Testing of AI/ML applications, Security and Accessibility testing is good to have

Experience in cloud technologies such as AWS/GCP and containerisation technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes is good to have

Experience with ServiceNow is nice to have

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