QA Automation Engineer, London

London, England, United Kingdom Software and Services

Description

The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple's long-held passion for combining art and technology. These are the people who power the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books. And they do it on a massive scale, meeting Apple's high expectations with high performance to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 35 languages to more than 150 countries.These engineers build secure, end-to-end solutions. They develop the custom software used to process all the creative work, the tools that providers use to deliver that media, all the server-side systems, and the APIs for many Apple services.Thanks to Apple's unique integration of hardware, software, and services, engineers here partner to get behind a single unified vision.That vision always includes a deep commitment to strengthening Apple's privacy policy, one of Apple's core values. Although services are a bigger part of Apple's business than ever before, these teams remain small, nimble, and cross-functional, offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities here.The Apple Services Analytics Engineering QA team is responsible for ensuring the Quality and integrity of the data collected and reported on customer experience data. We are seeking Data Test Automation Engineers who are interested in ASE products, want to make a difference to them and to Apple as a whole, improving the data quality, and learn ASE cutting-edge tools and technologies. This role involves developing automated testing tools to test and validate near real-time (NRT) and batch data pipeline systems.

Responsibilities

• You will be working alongside like-minded QA engineers testing web services (API & Web UI) that power Apple Media services and implementing automation
• You'll be expected to take end-to-end responsibility of test execution including:
• Test planning, execution and reporting
• Development, implementation & triage automated tests & frameworks
• Work collaboratively with engineers and project managers in cross functional project teams
• To thrive in this role you will need to be ambitious, detail orientated, with proven experience of building and implementing Web UI & API automation and be comfortable working in a dynamic environment with rapidly changing priorities.
• You will also need strong interpersonal and communication skills and a willingness to work as a team player

Minimum Qualifications

• In depth professional software QA experience with a proven track record of delivering server-side automation at scale using Java or Python
• Experience developing test plans, test cases along with excellent bug isolation and reporting skills
• Excellent SQL skills with a good understanding of database schema & data interrelationships, with experience testing RESTful API services using CI/CD automation
• Self-motivated with proven ability to lead QA projects and contribute as part of a cross functional team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Big Data technologies (e.g. HDFS, AWS, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra)
• Experience with Big Data query tools and engine (e.g. Jupyter Notebook, Trino, DBeaver)
• Experience with near real-time (NRT) and Batch data pipelines Experience black box testing
• Experience Client-Server products Knowledge in Data Quality, Data Profiling and Data Integration