Software Integrity Engineer, Photos

Summary

Posted: Dec 9, 2024

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200582512

At Apple you can be your best creative and professional self. The Camera & Photos team is devoted to fusing powerful hardware with exceptional software to enable millions to capture, preserve, and share cherished moments with their loved ones. Upholding the quality that epitomizes the Apple Promise requires a dedicated team of champions, and you could be one of them! The Photos Quality Engineering team is seeking a highly motivated and talented individual to join us in our commitment to deliver great photography software. While collaborating within and across teams you‘ll play key roles in defining and ensuring the quality of our application, from black-box user experiences to low-level data validity using both manual and automation methods. This is your chance to put those natural instincts to work in the products you already use and love!

Description

As an experienced software test engineer, your responsibilities will focus on functional, regression, integration testing, and UI automation development for the Photos application on our platforms, including, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS. With a supportive team, you will independently investigate, triage and escalate hard problems. Daily work focuses on iterative software validation of existing and new features & technologies, while working closely with others to deliver timely and focused test results. The work environment demands balancing differing phases of multiple concurrent projects. Accountable for writing, monitoring and triaging automation results. Excellent communication skills are needed due to the extensive collaboration with others.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong experience in writing and running test plans; discovering and documenting software and hardware defects; prioritizing and escalating problems to peers and management
• Experience in developing UI Automation, with an ability to design tests that are reliable and effective
• Experience with Python, Swift, XCTest, remote VM testing, and general CI processes
• Familiarity with Apple’s hardware and software ecosystem

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership in guiding a team through the testing and delivery of interdependent features, with a pronounced sense of accountability for the results
• Testing with digital media, including image & video editing, with an eye for evaluating photographic quality and the utility of different media formats
• Proficiency in using common shell commands and a comfort level with CLI-based testing approaches
• A high level of comfort in expressing well-thought-out opinions, meticulous attention to detail, and a commitment to aligning with the overarching vision.
• Love for photography, both still and moving images, and a drive to improve and celebrate it

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 $97,300 and $188,100, 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.