About the position
Be part of the engineering team crafting health features on Watch. The Health Sensing team has a catalogue of health features we ship to customers every year. We’re looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) who can help ensure quality of these sophisticated features that millions of our customers around the world use and love. In this role, the candidate must have strong experience with developing and maintaining robust and stable test automation, building up reliable and scalable testing infrastructure to run them, managing test lab that hosts automation test agents and devices under test. You’ll also test these health features on next version of Watch hardware and watchOS, ultimately to provide timely and actionable feedback to our development partners well before they ship to customers. If you are a highly motivated engineer with aspirations to solve quality engineering challenges at scale, we want to talk to you!
Responsibilities
- Owning the catalogue of regression test suites for software running health algorithms on watchOS and iOS devices
- Design and recommend logging telemetry to improve failure analysis and field performance metrics, and efficiently gather and present quality metrics
- Participate and/or drive post mortem discussions to think strategically about how to prevent similar issues in the future
Requirements
- 5+ years of proven experience working as a SDET, or Automation Engineer for software, firmware, and/or hardware project
- Proficiency in scripting language such as Python and Shell
- Proven background in testing methodologies (e.g. unit testing, integration testing, performance testing, functional testing, etc), tools, frameworks, and pipelines
- Experience triaging, diagnosing and debugging complex systems that involves both hardware and software
- Experience identifying automation requirements and crafting solutions to address test execution challenges
- Experience with compiling and sending out test summary reports
- Experience using telemetry for building dashboard to monitor production performance
- Experience with running test passes and releasing software, including software updates
- Experience with working with contractors and overseeing their deliverables
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience in (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field)
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with testing algorithm
- Familiarity with health-regulated software testing and documentation process
- Familiarity with digital signal processing
- Familiarity with testing embedded devices
- Familiarity with developing KPI dashboards
- Knowledge of Macintosh systems and Mac OS or UNIX variant
- Outstanding collaborative skills including networking, negotiating, documentation, and presentation skills
- Ability to think analytically and creatively, solve sophisticated problems, and innovate
- Self-motivated, proactive, enthusiastic about user-focused design & high-quality products
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to facilitate close interaction with development teams, management, and other organizations with Apple
- Excellent time-management and project management skills
