QE Engineer - IOS Devices
Job Description
Summary
Do you want to see your ideas and passion make an impact on the way consumer electronics enrich customers’ lives? Ever wondered what technologies make the special things happen across Apple products like - Accessories, iPhones, iPads, Watch, Mac, Display?
At Apple, we solve hard problems to ensure that our customers have a seamless experience with our products. We have exciting new opportunity for a highly motivated and creative engineer with excellent problem solving and interpersonal skills. You’ll join a dynamic team of hardworking engineers responsible for driving the quality of Apple Accessories and their integration in the iOS/macOS ecosystems by working closely with hardware, firmware and software engineering teams.
At Apple, we solve hard problems to ensure that our customers have a seamless experience with our products. We have exciting new opportunity for a highly motivated and creative engineer with excellent problem solving and interpersonal skills. You’ll join a dynamic team of hardworking engineers responsible for driving the quality of Apple Accessories and their integration in the iOS/macOS ecosystems by working closely with hardware, firmware and software engineering teams.
Description
Be part of the iOS Device QE team, focused on testing firmware and ensuring ultra-high quality for Apple's next generation human interface devices. You will be a motivated individual who cares and thinks about user experience, able to collaborate with other engineers to problem solve and understand the basics of firmware. Core responsibilities include but not limited to:
Understanding microcontroller based embedded systems, including algorithms
Working to guarantee that Multitouch system consistently achieve Apple quality bar
Partnering with a development team to quickly understand an architecture, break it into functional parts, come up with a plan to test/validate, and identify and target weaknesses
Devising and building test fixtures, building tools and authoring automated scripts
Driving manual and automated test plans on early prototypes
Documentation of test cases and code used for test execution
Coming up with ideas for custom tools and methods to exercise firmware features
Tracking performance, reporting results to management, driving issues to closure
Partnering with Human Factors / User Study Group to validate the customer experience and learn about how humans use new input devices
Understanding microcontroller based embedded systems, including algorithms
Working to guarantee that Multitouch system consistently achieve Apple quality bar
Partnering with a development team to quickly understand an architecture, break it into functional parts, come up with a plan to test/validate, and identify and target weaknesses
Devising and building test fixtures, building tools and authoring automated scripts
Driving manual and automated test plans on early prototypes
Documentation of test cases and code used for test execution
Coming up with ideas for custom tools and methods to exercise firmware features
Tracking performance, reporting results to management, driving issues to closure
Partnering with Human Factors / User Study Group to validate the customer experience and learn about how humans use new input devices
Minimum Qualifications
- BS and a minimum of 3 years relevant industry experience.
- Experience writing and/or testing firmware, building embedded systems
- Knowledge of Mac systems and MacOS/iOS or UNIX variant
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience writing and/or testing firmware, building embedded systems
- Knowledge of Mac systems and MacOS/iOS or UNIX variant
- Track record of shipping great consumer products
- Testing automation using Python or similar
- Use of hardware debugging tools
- USB and Bluetooth CATC, protocol analyzer, logic analyzer, oscilloscope
- Familiarity with C/C++ or object-oriented programming
- Test tool development
- Continuous integration systems.
- Algorithm analysis and validation.
