Tools and Automation Engineer

Apple Inc.; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Ottawa seeks a detail-oriented Quality Engineer to join their Developer Tools team. In this role, you'll enhance automated testing for high-quality development tools used globally. The ideal candidate has strong object-oriented programming skills, preferably in Swift or Objective-C, and experience with Xcode. This position encourages collaboration, proactive communication, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced development environment.

Qualifications

• Strong object-oriented programming experience, preferably in Swift or Objective-C.
• Experience in iOS or macOS development using Xcode.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and a passion for quality.

Responsibilities

• Identify test scopes and prioritize testing with rapid development cycles.
• Create automated tests and improve test coverage geared towards ensuring quality.
• Drive teams to resolve issues that negatively impact developers.

Skills

Object-oriented programming

Troubleshooting skills

Automation tests

Tools

Xcode

Job description

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Software and Services

At Apple, the Tools and Frameworks organization builds world-class development tools that power Apple’s platforms—like Xcode, Terminal, and other macOS applications. As a Quality Engineer on the Developer Tools team, you’ll have the rare opportunity to shape the tools you use every day. Your work will directly impact the development experience of millions of engineers worldwide. We’re looking for a detail-oriented, curious, and proactive engineer who thrives on finding bugs, building tools, and collaborating with developers to deliver a seamless, high-quality development environment.

Description

We’re looking for a highly creative, detail-oriented and self-motivated individual, excellent at creating and maintaining tests/tools required and communicating with other teams about the health of the product.You’ll be paired with a product engineering team, and work with them to extend their automated testing to help ship a high-quality product. You’ll have the opportunity to build shared APIs for testing, and be challenged to come up with testing strategies that maximize coverage of your component with minimal manual intervention.Additionally, you will:• Identify test scopes and prioritize testing with rapid development cycles• Create automated tests and improve test coverage geared towards ensuring quality of the product• Execute tests with attention to detail and communicate the overall quality with relevant teams• Drive teams to resolve issues, championing issues that you think will negatively impact developersHere you’ll find that we:• Have a peaceful work environment where you can choose when to socialize and when to close your office door and focus• Provide technical guidance, software architectural review, and mentorship• Have an encouraging and growth focused workplace culture

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong object-oriented programming experience, preferably in Swift or Objective-C
• Experience in iOS or macOS development using Xcode
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and a passion for quality
• Experience in writing automation tests at various levels, including unit, API, UI, and non-UI

Preferred Qualifications

• Collaborative and curious contributor with a proactive communication style
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects
• Knowledge of complex system level debugging and root cause analysis
• Experience working with CI systems
• Comfortable with rapid development release cycles and tight schedules
• Passion for perfecting beautiful user interfaces and seamless user experiences