Tools and Automation Engineer

The Xcode team provides the tools to develop software for Apple’s innovative iOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, and macOS platforms. As tools are our products, software engineers on the Xcode team have the unique and rewarding opportunity to apply personal experience to enhance and augment the tools they use every day. The Xcode team is looking for a diligent and focused Quality Engineer with the curiosity to find bugs, and a deep knowledge in tools and automation.

Description

We’re looking for a highly creative, detail-oriented, and self-motivated individual, excellent at communicating with other teams about the health of their parts of the IDE. You’ll be paired with a tool development team and work with them to extend their automated testing to help ship a high-quality Xcode. You’ll have the opportunity to build shared APIs for testing and be challenged to come up with testing strategies that improve coverage of your component with minimal manual intervention. Additionally, you will:

1. Identify test scopes and prioritize testing with rapid development cycles
2. Create automated tests and improve test coverage geared towards ensuring quality of the product
3. Execute tests with attention to detail and communicate the overall quality with relevant teams
4. Drive teams to resolve issues, championing issues that you think will negatively impact developers

Here you’ll find that we:

1. Have a peaceful work environment where you can choose when to socialize and when to close your office door and focus
2. Provide technical guidance, software architectural review, and mentorship
3. Have an encouraging and growth-focused workplace culture

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong object-oriented programming experience, preferably in Swift or Objective-C
• Experience in iOS or macOS development using Xcode
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and a passion for quality
• Experience in writing automation tests at various levels, including unit, API, UI, and non-UI

Preferred Qualifications

• Collaborative and curious contributor with a proactive communication style
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects
• Knowledge of complex system level debugging and root cause analysis
• Experience working with CI systems
• Comfortable with rapid development release cycles and tight schedules
• Passion for perfecting beautiful user interfaces and seamless user experiences