Quality Engineer, Radar Engineering

Apple, Inc.; Cork; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Radar Engineering in Cork, Ireland seeks an early-career Quality Engineer to build tools that raise the quality of Radar’s apps and platform. You will design and implement tests across services, contributing to test strategy and automation.

The team collaborates across California, Texas, and Ireland to ensure release readiness and quality. You will receive mentorship and training in Apple’s development practices while ramping up ownership of quality tooling and tests.

Qualifications

• Solid programming skills in Java with a good grasp of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.
• Understanding of software testing fundamentals and test design.
• Experience with version control (Git) and a working understanding of the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Design and build tools, frameworks, and services that improve the quality of Radar’s apps and platform.
• Write, run, and maintain automated tests for Radar’s services and apps, and keep regression suites healthy.
• Perform manual testing, verify user-reported issues, and run exploratory testing.
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code, and participate in code reviews.
• Find, document, and track bugs, and verify fixes.
• Work with engineers to review features and specs for testability early in development, and collaborate on bug reporting, analysis, and resolution.
• Contribute to test plans and release readiness.
• Follow and help improve the team’s quality best practices.

Skills

Java programming

Testing fundamentals

Git version control

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Maven

TestNG

Allure

Jenkins

Python

Job description

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Quality Engineer, Radar Engineering

Cork, County Cork, Ireland Corporate Functions

Do you want to have a significant impact on how work is done at Apple? Radar is used by every major organization across Apple to help teams organize and track their work. As Apple’s primary tool for defining, tracking, and testing issues, Radar has been used for decades across various teams, including hardware and software engineering. It serves as a unified platform for bug tracking, test case management, and product management, facilitating seamless coordination among team members. The Radar Engineering team at Apple seeks an early-career Quality Engineer to build the tools that raise the quality of Radar’s apps and platform.

Description

As a Quality Engineer for Radar, you will be a software engineer who builds the tools thatmake Apple’s platform for product development, bug tracking, and work management betterwith every release. Radar is a high-traffic, business-critical system used by teams across all ofApple, and the quality of each release is felt by engineers company-wide.You will join a growing team distributed across California, Texas, and Ireland. In our highlycollaborative environment, you will work closely with a team of passionate builders to deliverend-to-end features critical to Apple’s engineering workflows. You will receive structuredmentorship, comprehensive training in Apple’s development practices, and the support tolearn and develop your skills quickly.You will design and build tools, frameworks, and services that improve the quality of Radar’sapps and platform, and write the tests that prove it. You will find and fix the gaps that letbugs through, and learn how a platform at this scale remains stable while constantlyevolving. As you ramp up, you will take on increasing ownership of quality tooling, contributeto test strategy, and help bring new technologies onto the platform.

Responsibilities

• Design and build tools, frameworks, and services that improve the quality of Radar’s apps and platform.
• Write, run, and maintain automated tests for Radar’s services and apps, and keep regression suites healthy.
• Perform manual testing, verify user-reported issues, and run exploratory testing.
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code, and participate in code reviews.
• Find, document, and track bugs, and verify fixes.
• Work with engineers to review features and specs for testability early in development, and collaborate on bug reporting, analysis, and resolution.
• Contribute to test plans and release readiness.
• Follow and help improve the team’s quality best practices.

Minimum Qualifications

• Solid programming skills in Java with a good grasp of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.
• Understanding of software testing fundamentals and test design.
• Experience with version control (Git) and a working understanding of the software development lifecycle.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building developer tools, internal services, or testing frameworks in Java and/or Python.
• Experience testing REST APIs using Java common testing and reporting tools - Maven, TestNG, Allure, Jenkins.
• Exposure to running tests in CI/CD pipelines.
• Interest or experience in agentic workflows, MCP integrations, or AI-assisted testing tools.
• Ability to triage problems, prioritize accordingly, and propose a resolution.

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