Health Sensing - Software Development Engineer in Test

Health Sensing - Software Development Engineer in Test

Be part of the engineering team crafting health features on Watch. The Health Sensing team has a catalogue of health features we ship to customers every year. We’re looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) who has strong experience with leading cross-functional testing efforts, developing tests, driving validation strategy, and building up testing infrastructure in a fast-paced team. In this role, you’ll work with development and quality engineers to test a number of sophisticated health features on the next version of Watch hardware and watchOS. You will also strategize and develop robust, scalable, and reliable infrastructure to support this testing. If you are a highly motivated engineer with aspirations to build such automation, nurture learning, and lead these efforts across teams at Apple, we want to talk to you!

Description

This position requires someone with a passion for Quality Engineering to deliver high-quality products to Apple Customers, as well as being a phenomenal partner with the Health Sensing Engineering teams. You possess the right set of skills to design and develop automation frameworks with a focus on scalability and reliability of the tests, while promoting coding best practices. As an automation expert, you will be defining requirements and providing solutions to automate the testing workflow with a strong sense of ownership. Participate in deep technical discussions with the engineering team, understand software workflows and use cases, and ensure testability of the system. The candidate should have strong experience in developing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to validate system functionality and performance. You will own verification and validation strategies for software running health algorithms on watchOS and iOS devices, design and recommend logging telemetry to improve failure prioritizing efficiency and gather quality metrics, and participate and/or drive post-mortem discussions to think strategically about how to prevent similar issues in the future.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of proven experience working as a Software Automation Engineer
• Knowledge of software development and release lifecycle, including software updates
• Experience diagnosing and debugging sophisticated systems
• Proficiency in testing software frameworks and drivers
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python and Shell
• Experience with data-driven testing strategies and approaches
• Proven background in testing methodologies (e.g. unit testing, integration testing, performance testing, functional testing, etc.), tools, frameworks, and pipelines
• Outstanding collaborative skills including networking, negotiating, documentation, and presentation skills
• Experience identifying automation requirements and crafting solutions to address test execution challenges
• Ability to think analytically and creatively, solve sophisticated problems, and innovate
• Self-motivated, proactive, enthusiastic about user-focused design & high-quality products
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to facilitate close interaction with development teams, management, and other organizations within Apple
• BS and a minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Objective C, XCTest, XCode
• Familiarity with health-regulated software testing and documentation process
• Familiarity with digital signal processing
• Familiarity with testing embedded devices
• Knowledge of Macintosh systems and Mac OS or UNIX variant
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD automation and deployment tools such as Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitHub

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