Software Quality Engineer (Retail & Marcom Engineering)

Quick Facts

• Role: Software Quality Engineer (Retail & Marcom Engineering)

• Focus: Software quality design, analysis, certification, and automated testing for web, API, and mobile applications

Description

You will contribute to the design, analysis, and certification of applications used across Apple’s retail and marketing experiences. The role emphasizes consistent quality using lightweight processes, including root-cause analysis, robust test planning, and cross-functional collaboration. You will also accelerate testing using GenAI and integrate automated quality into CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Ensure product quality: consistent functionality, performance, and stability

• Understand new and existing feature implementations to create informed, robust testing charters

• Author and review test scenarios, scripts, and plans

• Execute functional, regression, performance, and security testing using automation tools

• Identify and report defects, including first-level root cause analysis and clear steps to reproduce

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks, scripts, and test cases for web, API, and mobile apps

• Leverage GenAI to optimize test execution time

• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and QA teams to define test strategies and acceptance criteria

• Integrate automated testing execution into CI/CD pipelines

• Analyze test results, report defects, and track issues using defect management tools

• Continuously improve test automation frameworks and enhance testing efficiency

• Champion quality beyond test execution by partnering with test automation engineering, product management, and engineering program teams

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in software quality assurance testing

• Experience with modern test automation frameworks such as Playwright/Selenium and Appium with Java, or TypeScript/JavaScript or Python

• Ability to build and improve QE frameworks, tools, and infrastructure that increase engineering productivity

• Experience designing and implementing scalable automation across UI, API, integration, and end-to-end testing

• Experience testing web, API, and iOS/iPadOS native applications

Benefits

• Work on systems and experiences that connect Apple products with customers across online and physical stores

• Improve operational effectiveness and customer experiences through quality engineering and automation

• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering, product, design, and partner teams