Quality Assurance Engineer - Siri AI Quality Engineering

Socket.dev; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple's Siri AI Quality Engineering team is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to build robust quality strategies for Siri and exceed customer expectations. You will work with SDETs and cross-functional partners to plan, execute, and ship reliable user experiences across features.

You will design test plans, perform extensive functional testing, triage bugs, and advocate for quality improvements that shape how millions of users experience Siri daily.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of industry experience.
• Knowledge of SDLC and test methodologies.
• Proactive self-starter with attention to detail.
• Experience building test plans, evaluating risk, filing bug reports, and communicating results.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Ship world-class user experiences through testing.
• Develop and execute functional tests for Siri features.
• Collaborate with developers, PMs, and designers.
• Contribute to test plans and quality metrics.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Test planning

Bug reporting

Cross-functional work

Tools

Xcode

Xcode Cloud

XCTest

XCUITest

Job description

Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other's ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It's the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you'll do more than join something - you'll add something. The Siri AI Quality Engineering team is seeking a quality engineer to build sound and robust quality strategies for Siri and exceed our customer expectations. Think beyond what features are supposed to do and creatively seek ways to measure qualitative experiences. You will ultimately be responsible for understanding how well our products work, advocating for critical changes, and representing how they'll be experienced by our customers. We are a nimble, fast-paced team that relies heavily on a tight relationship between engineering, program management, and quality engineering. As a member of our passionate group in Siri, you will have the unique and rewarding opportunity to shape and improve our products to delight and inspire millions of Apple's customers every day.

Description

In this role, you will be responsible for shipping world-class user experiences and act as the voice of our end-users. As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will support the testing of multiple features and drive for quality via extensive hands-on functional testing of user-facing features and systems for Siri. You will be responsible for setting the bar high, going beyond ensuring a great experience, and helping to ship robust and amazing products taking an active role in shaping the quality of our products. This will demand deep integration with our development engineers, devising test plans and user studies, bug triaging, and supporting technical as well as UX design reviews. Collaborating closely with a team of Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs), you will be responsible for the authorship of functional and non-functional test plans in service of feature areas of responsibility to enable continual and robust statements of quality.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of industry experience.
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle and associated test methodologies.
• Proactive self-starter with a keen eye for detail and a passion for high quality user experiences.
• Experience creatively building comprehensive test plans, evaluating risk, filing detailed bug reports, and communicating results.
• Strong passion for quality assurance in software, including developing, extending and maintaining test plans, and methodologies.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally across various facets of the organization as well as understand technical and interdisciplinary dependencies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of the Apple development ecosystem using Xcode, Xcode Cloud, and XCTest/XCUITest.
• Experience with or knowledge of Machine Learned (ML) systems and associated qualificationapproaches.
• Software programming and automated testing experience.