About the role

What will you do at Apple?

Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great

products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and

dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. The

User Privacy team seeks an engineer with a passion for test development to help

us ensure that the strong privacy protections in Apple's platforms remain that

way in every release and every build. Every Apple product and feature contains

privacy functionality — from Siri to Maps to App Store to UIKit — and your focus

will be to work with teams all across the company and at all levels of the stack

to ensure there is an automated test plan for their features' privacy

functionality. This work will impact software features touching millions of our

customers and developers worldwide.

DESCRIPTION

This position requires a self-motivated individual with strong technical and

communication skills to handle responsibilities including: collaborating with

other teams on their automated test plans for iOS, watchOS, macOS, tvOS and

visionOS; designing, implementing, and handing off automated tests to teams as

necessary; integrating with server-side components as appropriate. Additional

responsibilities will include risk analysis and integration testing across Apple

platforms.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Experience writing code in Objective C or Swift to test an API, SDK, or

Frameworks Experience developing for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS and/or

visionOS with XCTest and Xcode Experience developing various forms of software

tests (unit, functional, performance, stress) Experience in driving development

and deployment of continuous integration systems

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Detail oriented, analytical, and creative problem solver with curiosity about

developing quality software Ability to triage problems, prioritize accordingly,

and propose a resolution Ability to work independently, raise issues and take

corrective action Keen eye for detail

Which skills does this role require?

Objective CSwiftiOSiPadOSmacOSwatchOStvOSvisionOSXCTestXcodeAutomated TestingRisk AnalysisIntegration TestingContinuous IntegrationProblem SolvingAttention to DetailPrivacyQA EngineerTest DevelopmentAPISDKFrameworks

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