Software Developer in Test – Swift Platform Experience

Summary

Posted: Oct 31, 2024

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200576722

The Swift Platforms Experience team is looking for a driven and dedicated Software Engineer in Test. Our team is responsible for testing and ensuring the quality of major frameworks and tooling including Foundation, UIKit, SwiftUI, Swift Charts and Xcode Previews. You’ll be working directly with the talented Software Engineers and Quality Assurance Engineers responsible for the building blocks of apps across all of Apple’s platforms! Help us build applications, infrastructure, and tooling to validate the quality of our APIs in creative ways. The job responsibilities include: building, scaling, and maintaining XCTests & XCUITests across our projects; testing our framework APIs; and, building validation tools to continuously improve the Quality Engineering Process. To ensure the best developer experience, you will also be responsible for testing framework behavior in our external developer tools such as Xcode Previews. You will be part of a Quality Engineering team that works and collaborates closely with the Engineering teams to create and ship exciting new features across Apple’s platforms. Our ideal candidate has a passion for code quality, continuously learning, facing new challenges, and values the third party developer experience.

Description

– Gain a deep understanding of the design, requirements and architecture within the Swift Platform Experience frameworks – Devise and execute a testing strategy for features created by the Swift Platform Experience team – Provide functional and integration quality assurance testing for features across all of Apple’s platforms – Explore novel approaches to build or improve test frameworks, automation, tooling and infrastructure to streamline testing – Create and test suites of UI applications using our public APIs and not yet released APIs under development. – Work closely with multi-functional organizations, software engineering teams, and QA teams

Minimum Qualifications

• 2+ Years of experience using Swift or Objective-C in Xcode developing for Apple platforms including automated testing using XCTests & XCUITests.
• Detail oriented, analytical, curious and creative problem solver with interest in developing high quality software
• Ability to prioritize work, synthesize results, and escalate issues to the relevant stakeholders
• BS or MS in CS/CE or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to work closely with development teams, management, and other organizations within Apple
• Experience debugging & triaging software issues within a large codebase
• Experience building, maintaining & deploying automated test suites within a continuous integration system, reporting regressions, tracking regressions & verifying fixes
• Familiarity with SwiftUI

Pay & Benefits

• At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $143,100 and $264,200, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
  
  Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
  
  Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.