Quality & Test Automation Engineer - Xcode

About This Role

This engineering role on the Xcode team involves ensuring that new features work and coalesce into a cohesive development environment. It suits a detail-oriented and focused quality engineer with deep curiosity about how complex systems fail and the initiative to find those failures before developers do.

Responsibilities

• Perform API/Integration testing and manual/LiveOn testing
• Build test tools
• Develop automation platforms
• Continuously improve Xcode’s runtime tools, including profiling, debugging, and memory diagnostics
• Extend automated testing to help ship a high-quality Xcode and Instruments
• Build shared APIs for testing
• Design testing strategies that maximize coverage with minimal manual intervention
• Identify test scopes and develop quality plans for complex, dependency-heavy features across rapid development cycles
• Execute tests with attention to detail and communicate the overall quality to stakeholders
• Drive teams to resolve issues, championing problems that degrade the developer experience in profiling, debugging, or memory analysis workflows

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Strong object-oriented programming experience in Swift and Objective-C
• Excellent troubleshooting skills with a passion for quality
• Experience in writing automation tests at API, UI, and non-UI levels
• Collaborative and curious contributor with proactive communication and demonstrated ability to lead projects
• Ability to reason about how failures in dependent systems (OS, compiler, runtime) can surface in higher-level tools

Nice to have:

• Python or other scripting experience
• Experience with profiling, memory diagnostics, or other runtime analysis tools
• Proven experience designing test strategies that account for complex failure modes and cross-system dependencies

Benefits

• Opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs
• Eligibility for discretionary restricted stock unit awards
• Option to purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• A range of discounted products and free services
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition, for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple
• Eligibility for discretionary bonuses or commission payments
• Relocation assistance