Software Tools and Automation Engineer Apple Services Engineering

The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) team is one of the most exciting examples of Apples 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 Apples 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 Apples 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 Apples privacy policy one of Apples core values. Although services are a bigger part of Apples business than ever before these teams remain small nimble and cross-functional offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities here.n

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 Mid-level 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 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.n

BS/BA/MS/MA/PhD degree in any of the STEM majors (Sciences/Physics/Chem/CS/Math/Statistics/Engineering).n5 yrs of Big Data technologies (e.g. HDFS AWS Spark Kafka Voldemort Cassandra Druid)n5 yrs Knowledge in Python Java and/or Scala. Interest and experience on coding is a must for this position.n5 yrs experience with Big Data query tools (e.g. Hive HDFS Azkaban SparkSQL HiveQL CQL)n5 yrs experience with near real-time (NRT) and Batch data pipelines Experience black box testingn5 yrs experience Client-Server products Knowledge in Data Quality Data Profiling and Data Integration tools.n5 yrs experience in data migrations DataWarehousing Business Intelligencen

Day to day work involves understanding near real-time (NRT) and batch data pipeline systems developed by engineering teams for ASE out data profiling and understand schema data interrelationships and data flows using SparkSQL HiveQL JupyternDocument test plans writing test case automation and working closely with other teams (engineering project management etc.) bug reporting and isolationnThis position demands a self-motivated individual with strong technical and communication skills who can contribute in a team dynamic and prepared to test/regress a high volume of changes on a day-to-day should possess the ability to implement automated tests for NRT and batch data pipelines using QA automation tools Java Spark IntelliJnAutomate UI testing for iOS excellent bug reporting skills and the ability to communicate clearly with third partiesnComfortable and adaptable in a fast-paced analytical problem solving and creative thinking exceptional analytical skills in test case design and bug soft skills esp. listening and interfacing with stakeholdersnDedication to user-focused design u0026 high quality technologynStrong commitment to technical quality assurance as a key part of the software development to work cross-functionally with other junior team -oriented persistent and meticulous.