Senior Quality Engineer

Apple Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 312,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock programs

Medical and dental coverage

Educational assistance

Relocation assistance

Employee discounts

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Sunnyvale is seeking a Sr. Quality Engineer to own strategy and execution across a portfolio of applications and systems deployed to Apple Stores worldwide.

You will design and drive automated test coverage while balancing exploratory testing, influencing testability early in design, and ensuring quality from the start. You will lead quality efforts across native iOS/macOS clients, backend services, and delivery pipelines, partnering with engineers on test hooks, instrumentation,

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software quality engineering or test automation.
• Proven leadership defining quality strategy across native clients, backend services, and delivery pipelines.
• Experience testing native iOS and macOS apps on managed devices (XCUITest/XCTest).
• Proficient in Swift and Python for automation and debugging client apps and services.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control (Jenkins, GitHub, Docker/Kubernetes, Ansible, Rundeck).
• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Define a quality strategy across native and web apps, backend services, SDKs, and frameworks.
• Partner with engineering to design testability, feature flags, test hooks, and instrumentation.
• Validate every app version against content, services, and OS release dependencies; catch regressions.
• Report release-readiness and trends to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Skills

Quality strategy

Test automation

iOS testing

Swift

Python

CI/CD

Leadership

Education

BS in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub

Docker/Kubernetes

Ansible

Rundeck

Job description

Sunnyvale, California, United States Corporate Functions

Imagine what you could do here! The people here at Apple don’t just create products — they build the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. At Apple, inclusion is a shared responsibility, and we work together to foster a culture where everyone belongs and is inspired to do their best work.We’re a diverse collective of thinkers and doers, continuously reimagining our products and practices to help people do what they love in new ways. That innovation is inspired by a shared commitment to great work — and to each other. Because learning from the people here means we’re learning from the best. Retail Operations creates the tools and programs that empower our teams to provide, a one of a kind, only at Apple experience. We do this by obsessing over the employee and customer experience, and driving a global strategy that sets the bar.The Retail Technology, QA Engineering team owns quality standards, strategy and execution for customer facing interactive apps and systems. Our stack spans AV hardware, interactive players, device targeting logic, demo apps, content management systems, content bundles, SDKs and experience frameworks. We compose all of this into innovative, scaleable customer demo experiences worldwide.

Description

We are seeking a Sr. Quality Engineer to own strategy and execution across a portfolio of applications and systems deployed to Apple Stores worldwide. You will design and drive automated test coverage across this portfolio while maintaining a healthy balance of exploratory testing. In partnership with engineers, you will influencing testability and observability early in the design process to build in quality from the start.

Responsibilities

• Define a quality strategy across the portfolio — native or web apps and clients, backend services, SDKs and frameworks — and execute consistently against high standards


• Partner with engineering on testability from the start. Shape feature flag design, test hooks and harnesses, staging fidelity, and instrumentation while a feature is being designed — so quality is built in early.


• Validate every app version against the content, services and OS release they depend on. Catch regressions across permutations of these dependancies.


• Report release-readiness clearly to cross-functional and leadership stakeholders. Translate coverage, defect trends, and staged-rollout signal into a confident go, no-go, or rollback recommendation.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years in software quality engineering, test automation, or software development.


• Demonstrated technical leadership defining quality strategy across a full product surface spanning multiple native clients, backend services and delivery pipelines. Track record partnering with engineers to influence architecture, quality practices (feature flag programs, test hooks, staging fidelity) across partner organizations and mentoring QA engineers.


• Proven experience testing native iOS and macOS applications end to end on managed Apple devices (XCUITest/XCTest authoring, app lifecycle and state restoration, log analysis and triage). Quality ownership for a multi-platform client family, including app version compatibility matrix and the content or services they depend on.


• Proficient in Swift and Python with the ability to build and maintain automation, debug and extend client apps and backend services under test.


• Experience testing asynchronous, distributed workflows — job orchestration, retries and idempotency, partial failure, and eventual consistency (e.g. Temporal, Airflow, or equivalent).


• Skilled in root-causing failures across multiple system boundaries, spanning netowrking, client, service, content layers etc.


• Comfortable working in a trunk-based / mainline development environment, driving confidence through CI coverage, feature flags, and staged rollout rather than a release-candidate handoff.


• Serve as the go/no-go decision maker for user-acceptance, production-validation testing and customer-facing releases.


• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control (Jenkins, GitHub, Docker/Kubernetes, Ansible, Rundeck), including running automated client and service suites as a merge gate.


• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Client performance profiling with instruments — memory footprint, launch time, and rendering behavior on long-running unattended devices.


• Experience testing client behavior under degraded or offline network conditions, including content caching and recovery.


• Working knowledge of observability tooling (e.g. Splunk, Datadog) — able to define what a feature should log, not only consume existing dashboards.


• Test data and environment management — mirroring production data into lower environments, seeding realistic content, and reasoning about staging fidelity.


• Accessibility and multi-locale validation for customer-facing applications.


• Excellent written and verbal communication. Able to report quality and release-readiness status clearly to cross-functional and leadership stakeholders.

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 $175,500 and $311,700, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

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. 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. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

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Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant

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