Imaging and Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Apple
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$112.9-234.7k
Office located in Cupertino, CA
Personal technology company
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Personal technology company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$112.9-234.7k
Office located in Cupertino, 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
- 4+ years of professional experience in the lifecycles of consumer software test engineering, using both manual and automated methods, underpinned by a passion for delivering great products at high quality
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; experience in writing and running lengthy test plans; discovering and documenting software and hardware defects; prioritizing and escalating problems to peers and management, driving their resolution
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal; comfortable with distilling complex technical matters to concise and actionable tasks; working cross-functionally to everyone's benefit
- Confident and familiar with Apple’s current hardware and software ecosystem
- Professional experience qualifying imaging correctness at the functional and framework level for user-facing features
Desirable
- Leading a team of peers in testing and delivering spec-driven interdependent features with a strong sense of ownership in the outcome while also uplifting those around you
- Testing with digital media acquisition, augmentation & editing, with an eye for evaluating photographic correctness and attractiveness; strong familiarity with Camera, Photos, and other video & photographic offerings
- Pragmatic proficiency in common shell/CLI methods as well as some test automation experience, ideally with Python and XCTest; remote device testing and general CI processes are valuable
- Very comfortable sharing considered opinions, taking the time to get details right yet staying true to the bigger picture
- Proficient at balancing multiple efforts simultaneously and meeting strict deadlines
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- This individual contributor will engage with peers in development and quality to ensure imaging technology frameworks and the user-level features built on top of them are always functioning at the highest standard
- Your responsibilities will focus on functional, regression and integration testing across our platforms, eg, macOS, tvOS, iOS and iPadOS
- As part of a supportive team you will independently investigate, triage and escalate the problems you and others discover
- Daily work focuses on iterative software validation, of existing and new features & technologies, using both manual and automated approaches
- The demanding work environment requires balancing differing phases of multiple concurrent projects while delivering your important contributions to their success
- Accountable for driving and triaging automation as needed including some script authoring
- Excellent oral and written communication and organizational skills are needed due to the detailed and critical nature of the work as well as the extensive collaboration with others
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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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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