System Test Automation Engineer, Apple
Operations
$165.5-248.7k
+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan for eligible roles
More information about location
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
Personal technology company
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Personal technology company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$165.5-248.7k
+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan for eligible roles
More information about location
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
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
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance (SQA) & Automation Testing, ideally within factory software validation, embedded systems, or production environments
- Strong proficiency in Python and Swift for test automation development
- Experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Appium, Cypress, TestNG, XCTest)
- Expertise in CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Hands-on experience with networking and operating system concepts
- Strong understanding of API testing (REST/SOAP, JSON, XML) and database validation (Postgres, Snowflake)
- Experience in performance testing (JMeter, Locust) and system-level debugging
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills
- Meticulous, analytical, methodical, and creative problem-solving ability with a commitment to driving quality forward
- Ability to triage problems, prioritize tasks, and report findings clearly
- Understanding of networking and operating system concepts is required
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
- Applied knowledge with at least one test automation framework (e.g., Selenium, Appium, Cypress, TestNG)
- Strong presentation skills for effectively communicating with senior and executive leadership combined with strong leadership abilities
Desirable
- Experience working in factory test environments or production validation for hardware/software testing
- Hands-on experience with XCTest framework for iOS testing
- Applied knowledge of machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and generative AI for QA automation
- Familiarity with edge computing, IoT, and sensor data processing in production environments
- This role may require up to 25% travel, including international trips to manufacturing sites and engineering teams
What the job involves
- The OpsSWE Quality AssuranceTeam is a part of the Operations Engineering team and is responsible for ensuring the next generation of Apple products can be delivered in a way that continues to delight our customers
- The OpsSWE Team is seeking a highly motivated individual with a background in Systems Test and Test Automation
- In this position, the Systems Test Engineer will be responsible for testing software solutions and architected and developing end to end test automation
- Architect, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for validating hardware and software features for factory testing environments
- Design test plans, strategies, and methodologies for software validation in factory fixtures and production lines
- Develop and enhance test automation frameworks to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability of system validation
- Modify and execute tests to validate hardware and software interactions in manufacturing test environments
- Collaborate with Electrical, Mechanical, and Software Engineers to debug and resolve device validation issues in production
- Ensure traceability, reproducibility, and reliability of test results through structured reporting and analysis
- Improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline test execution, reporting, and release management
- Work closely with operations, engineering, and senior management to deliver data-driven quality assurance insights
- Enhance build and release systems to improve software deployment efficiency in factory test environments
- Evaluate and integrate AI/ML-driven quality assurance methodologies where applicable
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 values
- We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products
- We believe in the simple, not the complex
- We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make
- We participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution
- We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us
- We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot
- We don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change
Company HQ
Cupertino, CA
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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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