UI System Frameworks Software Developer Engineer - Test
Apple
Software Engineering, Design
Cupertino, CA, USA
Posted on Mar 5, 2025
Summary
Posted:
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200593754
The Cocoa team designs and implements frameworks which deliver user level features and developer APIs that are essential building blocks used by Apple and third parties to create top-notch applications for the Apple platforms. The team's deliverables include a wide range of rich functionality in areas such as user interface, text, graphics, document handling, asset management, data modeling, persistence, concurrency, and operating system interaction. We are looking for critical thinkers with a sharp eye for detail who would like to play a key role in qualifying the Cocoa frameworks and helping ensure Apple software is of the highest quality.
Description
As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) you will collaborate with engineering and cross functional teams to develop tests, drive validation strategy, and build testing infrastructure. This is a hybrid QA/Development role with a focus on contributing to our overall automation effort. You will work alongside development teams to deeply understand the technology and create test plans around it. Your automation work will involve designing, prototyping and maintaining test applications and automated test suites for exercising various SDK/APIs and functionality in the System for UI frameworks. Your debugging skills and attention to detail will help us to mine actionable defect reports on a daily basis while continually improving the health of our test products. We encourage curiosity and initiative, value diversity, and depend on the ability to learn and grow when approaching new features and technology. Are you ready to help us innovate and evolve our testing?
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Strong object oriented programming and software design skills, preferably in Swift or Objective-C
- Understanding of Application development and Unit Testing preferably using Xcode and XCTest
- Detail oriented, analytical, and creative problem solver with passion for quality processes
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with developing system and feature level test plans and test cases
- Experience writing production-ready automated UI and non-UI tests
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Solid understanding of UNIX-based systems and command-line tools for debugging, analysis, and automation
- iOS and macOS power user
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
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