Software Quality Assurance Engineer - Security

Summary

The SPEAR team in Apple’s Security Engineering & Architecture organization is hiring a collaborative software quality assurance engineer with a drive to ensure the quality of ambitious software security features. SPEAR is a dedicated team of engineers who work on security hardening across all of Apple’s operating systems. We work in a variety of codebases in all layers of the software stack. We develop meaningful and impactful security features that require meticulous test development and execution to land cleanly and successfully. Our work results in major improvements to the security of Apple’s apps and services without compromising the polished user experience over a billion users rely on every day. As a Quality Assurance engineer in SPEAR, you will test SPEAR’s features to ensure they achieve their security goals while maintaining functionality, stability, and performance requirements. You will work side-by-side with SPEAR software developers during all project phases, collaborating on feature definition, quality plan, and test development. You will gain experience testing software across a wide range of Apple’s software stack. Your work will be key to the SPEAR team’s goal of exceeding partner teams’ expectations for feature quality.

Description

As a Quality Assurance Engineer in the SPEAR team, you will have an opportunity to qualify a large variety of SPEAR-developed features! This will include:

• Work with feature teams to understand feature goals, components being modified, and interactions with the rest of the system.

• Develop comprehensive feature test plans to ensure the feature achieves its goals without regressing functionality, performance, power, or stability.

• Execute testing on all supported platforms and report progress and status.

• Drive coordination of partner teams to ensure project success.

• Implement new tests when needed to achieve adequate coverage.

• Report on testing status and follow up to ensure regressions are addressed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent experience
• Experience driving QA projects and creating test plans that identify deep software bugs
• Excellent bug reporting skills
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively about technical topics (verbal and written)

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of iOS and/or macOS QA experience
• Analytical skills to independently perform first-level triage on test failures
• Detail-oriented approach to understanding, documenting, and executing on test requirements