Apple

Software Quality Engineer - System Stability

Posted on: 8 Jan 2021

Santa Clara, CA

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Software Quality Engineer - System Stability

Santa Clara Valley (Cupertino), California, United States

Hardware

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Summary

Posted: Jan 4, 2021

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200209677

Do you want make a positive impact on the direction of new, key technologies in consumer products? We're seeking a creative and motivated Stability Quality Engineer to join a Systems Quality team working to ensure world-changing products are delivered at a high-quality to all our customers. You will involved from the early stages of a project and will play a critical role in the way we make decisions of releasing those Macs to customers. You will be responsible for planning, writing/developing, and executing system stability tests with an emphasis on hardware-centric software risks and writing and running automation simultaneously on a large number of systems. You will be at the nexus of hardware and software where you work cross-functionally with several engineering and QA teams to identify risk areas and testing responses, and to support engineering investigations. You should have a good instinct for discovering low-level defects in software and hardware. Come join our team!



Key Qualifications

Key Qualifications

* Minimum 5+ years of experience in automation development and/or HW/SW test engineering
* Experience developing software automation of low-level and user-level UI in scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Swift or JavaScript.
* Experience with developing web-based automation frameworks as well as database design
* Experience presenting data to executives
* Experience working with pre or post-silicon hardware
* In-depth knowledge of processor instruction set architecture and microarchitecture
* Ability to solve hardware systems to component level and perform root-cause analysis
* Strong knowledge of Unix and Unix shell scripting.
* Strong communication, written skills, and interpersonal skills (required to establish and maintain inter-departmental relationships)



Description

Description

- Designing and writing on-the-fly automated stress and stability hardware-centric software tests for embedded systems - Managing a rack of systems running a variety of tests and engineering experiments - Identify, reproduce, and isolate bugs found via debugging and performance analysis tools. - Report issues in accordance with Apple bug reporting methods and testing guidelines. - Provide training on a regular basis and mentor others as needed on particular skill set areas



Education & Experience

Education & Experience

- BS EE/CS/CE required; MSc and above desired



Additional Requirements

Additional Requirements

* Nice to have, not required:
* - Experience working in factory processes such as burn-in qualification.
* - Experience writing MacOS or iOS applications. We are looking for someone to build test tools for Mac and iPhone.
* - Experience with web and database technologies such as MySQL, PHP, jQuery, HTML5, CSS.
* - Previously built advanced reporting tools like Tableau.
* - Experience working with large scale log collection tools such as Splunk.
* - Potential opportunities to build internal web applications for results reporting and dashboard displays.

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Cupertino, CA

Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, and personal computers. It also sells various related software, services, accessories, and third-party digital content and applications. The company offers iPhone, a line of smartphones; iPad, a line of multi-purpose tablets; and Mac, a line of desktop and portable personal computers, as well as iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS operating systems.

It also provides iTunes Store, an app store that allows customers to purchase and download, or stream music and TV shows; rent or purchase movies; and download free podcasts, as well as iCloud, a cloud service, which stores music, photos, contacts, calendars, mail, documents, and others. In addition, the company offers AppleCare support services; Apple Pay, a cashless payment service; Apple TV that connects to consumers’ TVs and enables them to access digital content directly for streaming video, playing music and games, and viewing photos; and Apple Watch, a personal electronic device, as well as AirPods, Beats products, HomePod, iPod touch, and other Apple-branded and third-party accessories.

The company serves consumers, and small and mid-sized businesses; and education, enterprise, and government customers worldwide. It sells and delivers digital content and applications through the iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, TV App Store, Book Store, and Apple Music. The company also sells its products through its retail and online stores, and direct sales force; and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and resellers. Apple Inc. was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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