CoreOS Quality Engineer

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 132,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Product discounts and services

Educational reimbursement

Employee stock programs

Stock Purchase Plan

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Austin is seeking a CoreOS Quality Engineer to join the Core Darwin QA team. You will develop and execute test plans across OS components, write automated tests, and extend test harnesses to improve coverage for kernel and user-space features.

Ideal candidates have strong UNIX knowledge, C/Python skills, and experience with debugging, collaborating across OS teams to sustain Apple’s high-quality integration across devices.

Qualifications

• Advanced experience with UNIX and OS fundamentals.
• Excellent programming skills in C and Python.
• Experience using a debugger.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Understanding of software development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop understanding of OS development efforts and collaborate with OS developers.
• Create and execute comprehensive test plans during feature development.
• Maintain and extend automated test harnesses and infrastructures.
• Write automated tests for kernel and user-space features and improve test coverage.

Skills

UNIX

OS fundamentals

C and Python

Debugger

Collaboration/Communication

SDLC understanding

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

Job description

CoreOS Quality Engineer

Summary Posted: Dec 13 2023

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200528640

Are you a big-picture problem solver who loves setting ambitious goals? Do you have a passion for understanding how each line of code affects all the others? In the Core Operating Systems group you’ll ensure the OS is inseparable from each device’s identity as a whole. That’s because this group is committed to building fully integrated operating systems that combine hardware software and apps into a single Apple experience. Your dedication to cross-disciplinary collaboration will help develop groundbreaking technologies such as iOS macOS watchOS and tvOS. By crafting these distinct holistic user experiences you’ll continue to uphold and advance the excellence people expect from Apple devices. Apple’s CoreOS organization is seeking a highly motivated test engineer to join the Core Darwin QA team. We recognize that the quality of our software is only as good as that of our testing. The right candidate for this position enjoys finding creative and unexpected ways to torture bits from both white- and black-box perspectives.

Key Qualifications

• Advanced experience with UNIX
• Solid understanding of the fundamentals of operating systems
• Excellent programming skills in C and Python
• Experience using a debuggerExcellent collaborative skills with outstanding verbal and written communication abilities
• Understanding of software development workflows and standard methodologies

Description

Your responsibilities will include developing a good understanding of ongoing development efforts across the operating systems teams working alongside OS developers to create and execute comprehensive test plans during feature development maintaining and extending automated test harnesses and infrastructures writing automated tests for kernel and user space features and generally enabling an increased quality and quantity of test coverage for various parts of the OS.

Education & Experience

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

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 $131500 and $243300 and your base pay will depend on your skills qualifications experience and location.

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.
• 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.
• Additionally this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.

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