Apple

Senior Quality Engineer, Demo Platforms & OS Automation

Apple$135K — $160K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in software quality engineering, test automation, or software development.
  • Technical leadership experience in quality strategy for systems or release pipelines.
  • Experience mentoring QA engineers on automation and build pipeline processes.
  • Proficient in Python and Swift, with improvements to legacy code capabilities.
  • Designed and maintained end-to-end test automation frameworks, with manual and exploratory testing skills.
  • Experience validating across multiple Apple platforms including iOS, macOS, and watchOS.
  • Skilled in test planning and root-cause analysis across multiple systems.

Responsibilities

  • Own quality across demo delivery pipelines to Apple Stores.
  • Design automated coverage for OS-regression cycles and delivery pipelines.
  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional engineering teams.
  • Make go/no-go quality decisions for product releases.
  • Define release strategies with risk-mitigation and rollback plans.
  • Manage testing on both physical and virtual Apple hardware.
  • Conduct log analysis and issue triage to diagnose failures across systems.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional partnerships.
  • Exposure to innovative technology at Apple scale.
  • Opportunity to mentor and train other QA engineers.
  • Involvement with cutting-edge Apple platforms and software.
  • Potential for career growth within a leading tech company.
Full Job Description
The Retail Technology, QA Engineering team owns quality standards, strategy and execution for customer facing interactive apps and systems. Our stack spans AV hardware, interactive players, device targeting logic, demo apps, content management systems, content bundles, SDKs and experience frameworks. We compose all of this into innovative, scaleable customer demo experiences worldwide.

Description

We are seeking a Quality Engineer to own quality across demo delivery pipelines to Apple Stores worldwide. You will design and drive automated coverage across OS-regression cycles, production and delivery pipelines, engineering toolchains and OTA distribution mechanisms for every major release. Deep partnership with cross-functional engineering teams is essential because this work sits at the intersection of Apple operating systems and store demo environments.

Minimum Qualifications

7+ years in software quality engineering, test automation, or software development.

Demonstrated technical leadership defining quality strategy for multiple systems or release pipelines. Track record partnering directly with software and build engineers to influence tooling design, quality practices and aligning reporting standards across partner organizations.

Experience mentoring QA engineers on automation and build-pipeline literacy.

Proficient in Python and Swift, comfortable improving legacy code, committing and driving fixes through to completion in partnership with multiple engineering teams.

Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining end-to-end test automation frameworks, paired with strong manual and exploratory testing skills.

Experience validating across multiple Apple platforms: iOS/iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS, with a deep understanding of Apple OS fundamentals including deployment and update mechanics, as well as build lifecycle and release management practices.

Skilled at testing on physical and virtual Apple hardware. Experienced at lab device provisioning, fleet management, and configuration management.

Proficient in test planning, risk-based test design, issue triage, log analysis and independently root-causing failures that span multiple layers (network, OTA systems, hardware, operating systems, device settings, content, applications).

Make go/no-go quality decisions, and define release strategies with risk-mitigation and rollback plans.

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control (Jenkins, TeamCity, GitHub, Docker/Kubernetes, Ansible).

BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience validating against pre-release software, working with beta builds

Comfortable navigating disclosure constraints, working through ambiguity, and defining expected behavior in the absence of finalized requirements

Experience testing AI- or ML-driven features where output is non-deterministic

Experience leveraging AI in workflows and automation

Excellent written and verbal communication. Able to report quality and release-readiness status clearly to cross-functional and leadership stakeholders.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

Apple Careers

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Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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