Stability Quality Engineer

Summary

Posted: Oct 29, 2024

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200576076

Do you want to make a positive impact on the direction of new, key technologies in consumer products? We’re seeking a creative and motivated Stability Quality Engineer to join a Systems Quality team working to ensure world-changing products are delivered at a high-quality to all our customers. You will be involved from the early stages of a project and will play a critical role in the way we make decisions of releasing Apple products to customers. You will be responsible for planning, writing/developing, and executing system stability tests with an emphasis on hardware-centric software risks and writing and running automation simultaneously on a large number of systems. You will be at the nexus of hardware and software where you work cross-functionally with several engineering and QA teams to identify risk areas and testing responses, and to support engineering investigations. You should have a good instinct for discovering low-level defects in software and hardware. Come join our team!

Description

– Managing a rack of systems running a variety of tests and engineering experiments – Identify, reproduce, and isolate bugs found via debugging and performance analysis tools – Report issues in accordance with Apple bug reporting methods and testing guidelines – Provide training on a regular basis and mentor others as needed on particular skill set areas – Designing and writing on-the-fly automated stress and stability hardware-centric software tests for embedded systems

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in EE, CS, CE, or equivalent degree
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in HW/SW test engineering
• Minimum 5+ years of consumer electronics experience
• In-depth knowledge of processor instruction set architecture and microarchitecture
• Experience presenting data to executives
• Strong communication and written skills
• Thrive in a collaborative environment and comfortable working with multi-functional teams. Laser-focused on the smallest details that are meaningful to our customers
• Ability to solve hardware systems to component level and perform root-cause analysis
• Experience executing and monitoring and troubleshooting low-level and user-level UI automation in scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Swift or Javascript
• Strong knowledge of Unix and Unix shell scripting

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s or PHD in EE, CS, CE, or equivalent degree
• Experience working in factory processes such as burn-in qualification
• Experience developing, and maintaining Python scripts
• Experience developing, and maintaining UI automation tests like XCTest
• Previously built advanced reporting tools like Tableau