QA/UAT Specialist - End to End Testing, Apple Services

Culver City,California,United States

Software and Services

At Apple, we don’t just create products. We create products, services, and experiences that redefine what customers expect and revolutionize entire industries. Join the team that dreams up what’s next, and that does everything necessary to make it happen. Bring your passion, dedication, and focus, and help invent the future! The Growth Operations Team plays a key role in enabling on-device communications and automated messaging for Apple’s media products and services, including Apple TV+, Music, Arcade, News+, Fitness+, App Store, and Apple One. The team is responsible for developing and implementing day-to-day operational workflows and messaging, to develop and launch multi-channel customer communications. Ultimately driving awareness of and engagement with Apple products and services. This role in Growth Operations will take accountability for the overall quality of our customer-facing solutions across one or more services. They will partner with different teams and play a key role in enabling timely and high-quality customer communications. Validation of features and customer messaging will be the core responsibility utilizing industry leading practices. If you have a passion for quality and a drive to excel, we encourage you to apply!

Description

The ideal candidate will bring experience in online services (SAAS), testing on mobile devices, and is comfortable with documenting detailed test cases for software and integrated devices. Your focus will be to perform End to End Test design, test execution, troubleshooting, analyzing issues, and working cross-functionally to report defects for the engineering and development teams. This role requires a highly motivated professional who is meticulous and passionate about growing Apple Services. - Collaborate with different stakeholders including Engineering, Marketing, Legal, and Product Management, working on campaigns and marketing journeys. - Develop test strategy, test plan, test cases, and test scripts - providing a high level of test coverage across existing functionalities and new features. - Perform testing of on-device experiences for users on a wide range of mobile platforms. - Work on multiple initiatives and prioritize feature and campaign testing along with documentation and on-time delivery of End to End testing. - Respond quickly to Production issues and explore ways to reproduce defects, update tickets, and monitor the status so all information is current. - Design and build strategy, tools, and solutions for End to End testing across mobile, web, and API based systems. - Participate in conceptualizing and implementing process optimization and quality improvement initiatives across the delivery lifecycle.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7 - 9 years of experience in Quality Assurance and/or User Acceptance Testing with 4 years of experience independently leading testing efforts across projects.

• Experience with validation of native mobile applications or on-device communications/messaging for large scale marketing efforts.

• Experience working on End to End testing across mobile applications and developing test plan, test scripts, and test coverage matrix for user experience beyond stated requirements.

• Experience providing adequate risk-based test coverage across functional, integration, End to End, Data, and Regression test of the systems under test.

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

Key Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with testing activities across the entire lifecycle of the project from inception to delivery.

• You’ve worked closely with in-house QA/UAT teams to resolve bugs and actively contribute to operations planning, retrospectives, and release readiness.

• Ability to develop strategy, tools and solutions for efficiency of test coverage for End to End scenarios.

• Hands-on experience with Python, Selenium, and Javascript (Node.JS) to automate testing is preferred.

• Highly organized, disciplined, and methodical when approaching testing with the ability to thrive in a hands-on, fast-paced, start-up environment with the curiosity to develop ways to improve the UAT/QA process.

• Innovative and Resourceful to drive meaningful results across the team.

• Ability to work well on a team and drive influence across the project team.

• Attention to detail.

Education & Experience

Additional Requirements

Pay & Benefits

• At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $129,600 and $195,200, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.Learn more (https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html) about Apple Benefits.Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

• Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant. (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf)

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