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Software Integrity QA Engineer

New York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 18 Sept 2024

💰 $234,700/yr($112,900/yr – $234,700/yr)

About the role

Summary

Posted: Sep 18, 2024
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200568777

Imagine what you could do here! The people here at Apple don’t just build products — we craft the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that supports the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. The Creativity Apps team is looking for a software QA engineer with photos, video editing background to contribute to the production of innovative tools for creative professionals, video makers and visual storytellers. It requires a highly proactive individual with strong creative, technical and analytic skills and passion for new technologies related to computer vision/on device machine learning.

Description

In this role, you will be responsible for planning, designing, maintaining and executing test cases with minimal direction. Your ability to free test, without scripts and tools, will be paramount. Report bugs with outstanding isolation and regression techniques will be the key to your success. This role requires balancing a wide variety of deliverables that will rely on your talent for managing priorities and communicating progress and risks effectively and systematically. Your ongoing curiosity and dedication to self-education in photos and video technologies as well as new testing techniques is what will set you apart. You will be working closely with other team members to help coordinate multi-functional test efforts. You will be in continual dialogue with Engineering and Design as products evolve and you will need to have compassion for users so you can effectively advocate on their behalf. The ability to streamline processes for data collection and systematically parse large data sets will be a huge plus.

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years experience in QA Engineer
Experience with digital photography, video, and in-depth knowledge of image editing software
Active user of photo/video as communication in a classroom setting and/or social media
Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle, testing methodologies, QA terminology and processes
Understanding of subjective/objective image quality evaluation, and color science concepts is a strong plus
Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle, testing methodologies, QA terminology and processes.

Preferred Qualifications

Analytical, methodical, inquisitive and persistent problem solver committed to driving quality forward
Proficient at balancing multiple efforts simultaneously and meeting strict deadlines
Can extract user scenarios from software feature descriptions and requirements to translate them into effective test plans and cases.
Proven bug detection, isolation, and regression skills
Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written)
Ability to abstract technical details and effectively communicate to audiences at different levels
iOS and macOS familiarity
Scripting knowledge a plus (Swift, Python, Javascript, etc.)
Understanding of UX principals
Have some understanding of computational photography and machine learning

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 $112,900 and $234,700, 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, an