Health SW - QA Tools & Automation Engineer

Health is a diverse, hardworking, and passionate team striving to help people live healthier lives while keeping their data safe, private, and secure. We create amazing applications that enrich peoples’ lives in a tangible way, and provide APIs and SDKs to 3rd party developers so that their devices and applications can seamlessly integrate into Apple’s ecosystem. We are looking for a Software Test Automation Engineer to help ensure our Health experience is rock-solid and customer-focused. We're looking for critical thinkers who would like to play a key role qualifying critical software and the frameworks that support it during all stages of software development. We practice nimble, fast-paced development that relies heavily on a tight relationship between Development, Project Management, and QA. ## Description As a Test Automation Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to have a direct hand in crafting the next advancements in Apple’s health software ecosystem. We work on the Health app—a platform for Health and Fitness efforts across Apple—as well as the Research App and related features and experiences that broaden the definition of what our platform can do. You will work with experienced engineers, designers, and medical experts to qualify and refine features that delight users as well as form a solid technical foundation for future development. In this position, you will need to be self-directed, creative, and comfortable with change and ambiguity. Strong technical and interpersonal skills are all essential. ## Responsibilities Developing and maintaining automated test suites for validating Health-related applications Monitoring CI performance, test result analysis, as well as test triage and reporting Responding to changes, issues, and unexpected blockers and owning the solution Being a strong advocate for quality in the overall software development process Maintaining a qualitative, high level understanding of your areas of responsibility Investigating and debugging on Unix based systems to triage difficult problems and work towards resolutions Collaborating with the development team on the implementation of health features from an automation perspective ## Minimum qualifications Proficient programming knowledge in Swift, Objective-C, or similar architected language. Strong object oriented programming and software design skills Independent thinker with the ability to proactively triage, investigate, and debug difficult technical and UX problems autonomously as well as collaboratively Excellent written and verbal communication skills to facilitate close interaction with development teams, management, and other organizations within Apple Passion for quality assurance in software, including developing, extending and maintaining test plans, methodologies, as well as automation libraries Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent experience ## Preferred qualifications 2+ years of experience in automated Software Quality Assurance Experience writing production-ready automated UI and non-UI tests Creative problem solver with a knack for building scalable solutions in a collaborative and cross-functional space Ability to proactively triage, investigate, and debug difficult technical and UX problems independently as well as collaboratively Excellent written and verbal communication skills to facilitate close interaction with development teams, management, and other organizations within Apple Previous work with regulated medical devices Experience with Xcode, Xcode Cloud, and XCTest/XCUITest A passion for health and health-related technology