Be part of the engineering team crafting health features on Watch. The Health Sensing team has a catalogue of health features we ship to customers every year. We’re looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) who has strong experience with leading cross-functional testing efforts, developing tests, driving validation strategy, and building up testing infrastructure in a fast paced team. In this role, you’ll work with development and quality engineers to test number of sophisticated health features on next version of Watch hardware and watchOS. You will also strategize and develop robust, scalable, and reliable infrastructure to support this testing. If you are a highly motivated engineer with aspirations to build such automation, nurture learning, and lead these efforts across teams at Apple, we want to talk to you!
Description
This position requires someone with a passion for Quality Engineering to deliver high quality products to Apple Customers, as well as being a phenomenal partner with the Health Sensing Engineering teams.
You possess the right set of skills to design and develop automation frameworks with a focus on scalability and reliability of the tests, while promoting coding best practices.
As an automation expert, you will be defining requirements and providing solutions to automate the testing workflow with a strong sense of ownership. Participate in deep technical discussions with the engineering team, understand software workflows and use cases, and ensure testability of the system.
You should have strong experience in developing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to validate system functionality and performance.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors degree in (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field)
Knowledge of software development and release lifecycle, including software updates
Experience diagnosing and debugging sophisticated systems
Proficiency in testing software frameworks and drivers
Proficiency in scripting language such as Python and Shell
Experience with data-driven testing strategies and approaches
Proven background in testing methodologies (e.g. unit testing, integration testing, performance testing, functional testing, etc), tools, frameworks, and pipelines
Experience identifying automation requirements and crafting solutions to address test execution challenges
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Objective C, XCTest, XCode
Familiarity with health-regulated software testing and documentation process
Familiarity with digital signal processing
Familiarity with testing embedded devices
Knowledge of Macintosh systems and Mac OS or UNIX variant
Outstanding collaborative skills including networking, negotiating, documentation, and presentation skills
Ability to think analytically and creatively, solve sophisticated problems, and innovate
Self-motivated, proactive, enthusiastic about user-focused design & high-quality products
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to facilitate close interaction with development teams, management, and other organizations with Apple
Responsibilities
Own verification and validation strategies for software running health algorithms on watchOS and iOS devices
Identify efforts to increase test efficiency and productivity through developing robust and scalable test automation infrastructure and tooling
Design and recommend logging telemetry to improve failure analysis, and efficiently gather quality metrics
Present comprehensive product quality insights to stakeholders and leadership teams, leveraging test and quality metrics
Engage in feature design reviews with cross-functional teams including program managers and software/hardware engineers to influence product design, optimize testability, and ensure effective implementation
Participate and/or drive post mortem discussions to think strategically about how to prevent similar issues in the future
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