Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Photos

Summary

Posted:Apr 08, 2025

Weekly Hours:40

Role Number:200579428

At Apple, you can unleash your full creative and professional potential. In the Camera & Photos group, our mission is to combine exceptional hardware and software to create unparalleled experiences for millions. From capturing cherished personal moments to preserving, enriching, and sharing those memories with others, we are dedicated to delivering a world-class user experience. To achieve this, weʼve built a team committed to delivering the highest standards of quality, embodying the Apple Promise. You have the opportunity to join this cohort and contribute to the creation of exceptional photographic software. As a Photos Quality Engineering team member, youʼll collaborate on our talented team to develop exciting and useful new experiences that exceed the expectations of our many users. Your experience as a hands-on and results-driven software quality engineer, coupled with your passion for photography, makes you an ideal candidate for this role. Youʼll not only have the opportunity to exercise your full range of functional technical skills but also contribute your insights and imagination to making our products and their development truly exceptional.

Description

As an active individual contributor you will collaborate with peers across development and quality teams to ensure the robustness of new and ongoing core user experiences, including sharing, organizational & editing features and frameworks. Primary responsibilities will encompass functional, regression, and integration testing across most platforms in the Apple ecosystem. While working as part of a close-knit team, you will independently investigate, triage, escalate and resolve the issues you and others encounter. Your daily work will involve iterative software validation of both existing and new tools and technologies, utilizing both manual and automated approaches. The demanding work environment requires the ability to balance multiple concurrent projects while delivering your significant contributions to their success. You will be accountable for driving and triaging automated testing, including script authoring as necessary. Excellent oral and written communication skills, as well as effective organizational abilities, are essential due to the detailed and time-bound nature of the work and the extensive collaboration with others.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3 years of professional experience in consumer software test engineering, utilizing manual and automated methods, with broad exposure to user interface development
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for prolific and effective problem/defect discovery; identification of critical problems and their resolution
• Effective in balancing multiple tasks and meeting tight deadlines while keeping to a holistic quality vision; resiliency with fluid and evolving project priorities
• Extensive test plan development experience; proficiency in prioritizing and escalating issues to stakeholders; creatively driving projects to successful completion

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, underscoring effective communication to diverse audiences, are essential; comfortable sharing considered opinions and seeking the same from others
• Practical involvement with and support of consumer application automation within the Apple ecosystem
• Skilled and experienced in testing digital media apps, with a very strong understand of both common and specialized flows around ingest and sharing, editing and organizing, intelligent and personalized experiences
• Deeply knowledgeable regarding Appleʼs current hardware and software ecosystem; very familiar with Photos, Camera, and other video and photographic offerings from Apple and industry leaders
• Practical proficiency in shell/CLI methodologies; product-level experience in direct test automation using Python or XCTest is highly valued; remote device testing and general CI process understanding

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.