Tooling & Automation Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom Machine Learning and AIImagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring your passion and dedication to the team and there''s no telling what you could accomplish.Apple services are an essential part of the Apple experience. Our users rely on services such as ApplePay, iTunes, the App Store and much much more to communicate, to access powerful applications, and to build, store and protect their memories seamlessly across all their devices. We strive to improve user experience by avoiding unnecessary friction. You will perform continuous quality analysis and provide internal tools to help ensure that quality of the products we ship to customers are of the highest standard. The group comprises teams of Software Developers, Data Engineers, Data Analysts and Data Scientists that focus on crafting and implementing fraud prevention mechanisms, systems and tools to guarantee that new devices, software and features in our services, provide the safest experience to our customers.Description

As part of this team, you will establish, implement and evolve the formal Build and QA processes to ensure that the group is using industry accepted standard methodologies. Design and develop the build and testing infrastructure i.e. software build infrastructure, testing tools, test frameworks, test reporting mechanisms to test software and services. Integrate the testing infrastructure with the continuous integration and continuous deployment systems to ensure all of the tools, services developed are accurately tested and meet the quality goals. Write different types of tests i.e. Unit, Integration, acceptance tests for existing and new projects so as to ensure a bug free and hit quality of software is delivered to customers. Stay knowledgeable of new testing tools and strategies and evaluate the technologies to incorporate into the projects.Minimum Qualifications

Excellent knowledge of software development lifecycle, testing methodology, and testing toolsExperience in developing test plans, assessing risk, filing appropriate defects, and providing relevant data for test reporting.Programming skills either one of Python, Scala, Swift or similar language.Experience developing and maintaining automation systems that scale.Preferred Qualifications

Experience managing the build and release process for iOS/MacOS projects is a bonus.Experience with XCTest and XCUITest a plus.Experience with Jenkins or similar systems.Strong software testing fundamentals.Experience with creating, running and troubleshooting native builds.Experience with SCM branching, merging, pull requests.Ability to work independently, raise issues and take corrective action.Ability to triage problems, prioritize accordingly and take corrective ..... full job details .....