Software Development Engineer in Test, Apple
$138.9-256.5k
Personal technology company
Job no longer available
Personal technology company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$138.9-256.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Apple's mission is to bring the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software, and services.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of proven experience working as a Software Automation Engineer
- Strong object-oriented programming and design skills in Python, (Swift and ObjC a plus)
- Solid understanding of version control, git
- Experience using git/version control and the development integration lifecycle with CI/CD systems
- Ability to think analytically and creatively, working though issues to tackle sophisticated problems
- Design and implement frameworks to support robust automated testing
- Familiarity debugging and reading logs with goal of filing detailed bug reports
- Experience with observability platforms, like splunk, new relic, dynatrace is a plus
- Experience in wireless technologies (NFC, Bluetooth etc) is a plus
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience required
What the job involves
- You’ll design, develop, and patent the next generation of our state-of-the art connectivity technologies
- You’ll collaborate across departments to help craft wireless solutions that elevate the customer experience with Apple products and services
- The WTE Quality team is looking for motivated and detail oriented, Software Development Testing Engineer with excellent critical thinking, problem isolation, and interpersonal skills
- You will join the Quality Engineering team responsible for the functional validation of the NFC iOS Frameworks responsible for all modern day use cases leveraging NFC and other wireless protocols
- In this role, you’ll work with development and quality engineers within multiple organizations, working to qualify the complex features planned for future iOS and WatchOS
- You will also develop robust, scalable, and reliable infrastructure, strategizing with peers to support this testing
- As part of this team you will join a diverse team responsible for qualifying NFC Use Cases (Apple Pay, Digital Car Key, NFC Reader Mode, etc) on Apple's innovative devices
- Within this team you will be stepping into a multi-functional role that will qualify new and exciting features related to Apple Pay and the Secure Element
- Demonstrating existing skills to ensure quality of the feature area that you are working on
- Studying the project specifications and use that knowledge to understand existing test plans or build new ones based on project needs
- Bringing to bear your technical knowledge of the end to end infrastructure to build a test platform with robust test coverage
- Ensuring high quality experience for developers for features with Public API. Automation, simulation, and scripting will be a core component of your role to aid in testing. You will help prevent regressions and improve the overall quality of every new iOS release for our customers
Our take
With a market capitalisation that reached $3 trillion in 2022, Apple is the world's most valuable company. A vertically integrated approach and obsessive focus on the user experience have helped to make Apple one of the most successful companies in the world.
Since taking over at Apple, Tim Cook has been carefully curating the company's reputation as a champion of consumer privacy, trying to set the company apart from others that monetise their users' data.
The company even went as far as to introduce sweeping privacy changes which made it difficult to tailor ads to Apple’s 1bn+ iPhone users. This rocked the $400bn digital ads market, seriously harming the revenue of its bigger rivals in the lucrative industry and forcing them to rebuild their ad infrastructure.
Despite this, the company has been shaken by supply chain issues and moved a considerable amount of its manufacturing from China to India, and increased its Vietnam presence. This is because of multi-pronged production disruption in China, the second largest customer market for Apple, and triggered an estimated 10% revenue drop in the first quarter of 2023.
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Insights
204% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Everyone has different needs and schedules, and that’s why we offer medical plans that cover both physical and mental healthcare
- In addition, employees have the option to access medical professionals from almost anywhere and get free confidential counselling — virtual or in person
- You could also be eligible for help with fitness-related expenses
- Our medical coverage plans include family-friendly features such as fertility treatments
- Because we know there’s more than one way to bring a new child into your family, we support all kinds of new parents with paid leave and our gradual return-to-work programme
- You also get paid time away if you need to care for an ill family member and free guidance to help you find support for childcare, elderly care, legal referrals and more
- At Apple, we make sure women earn the same as men performing similar work. As part of that effort, your salary history is history — we won’t ask
- Every employee here also has the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder, because all are eligible for stock grants and also a discount when purchasing Apple stock
- To help you prepare for retirement, our pension can help you meet your savings goals. And to help you prepare for the unexpected, you’ll have the security of multiple forms of income protection
- Plan on developing both professionally and personally. Apple University creates classes, seminars and beyond-the-classroom tools that help employees understand Apple’s culture, organisation, values, and role in the world. You can sharpen general business and software skills through online classes
- For more formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, we’ll reimburse you for certain educational expenses, including tuition
- Whether you’re exploring personal pursuits, welcoming a new child or caring for a family member, rest assured that you’ll have paid time away when you need it most
- When you give money to an eligible organisation, we’ll match your donations one-for-one, so your contribution is doubled. And if you choose to donate your time, we’ll contribute US$25 for every hour you volunteer. Whether you donate time or money, Apple will match your contributions up to US$10,000 a year
- Get the world’s best prices on the world’s best products — Apple products. You’ll also get deals on great third-party accessories
- And there are services to help you manage life’s day-to-day tasks: dinner reservations, pet-sitters, shopping, personal travel, financial guidance and more
Company HQ
Cupertino, CA
Leadership
Tim Cook
(CEO, not founder)Joined Apple in 1998 and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO in 2011. Previously Spent 12 years with IBM, most recently as director of North American Fulfilment, where he led manufacturing and distribution functions for IBM’s Personal Computer Company in North and Latin America
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