Summary
The Apple Services Engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple's long-held passion for combining art and technology. These are the people who power the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Books. And they do it on a massive scale, meeting Apple's high expectations with high performance to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 35 languages to more than 150 countries. These engineers build secure, end-to-end solutions. They develop the custom software used to process all the creative work, the tools that providers use to deliver that media, all the server-side systems, and the APIs for many Apple services. Thanks to Apple's unique integration of hardware, software, and services, engineers here partner to get behind a single unified vision. That vision always includes a deep commitment to strengthening Apple's privacy policy, one of Apple's core values. Although services are a bigger part of Apple's business than ever before, these teams remain small, nimble, and cross-functional, offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities here.

Key Qualifications
5+ years of testing server applications and/or web requests and responses5+ years experience with Python and Python based test frameworks or similar experience
Ability to build automation framework and automated tests along with functional qualification of the release
Strong Knowledge in JSON, REST API
Skilled in developing test plans, test cases, assessing risk, and filing appropriate defects
A deep understanding for QA, root cause analysis, and general QA practices
Outstanding verbal, written and documentation skills
Team-player with experience working on cross-functional teams
Passion for Podcasts a plus

Description
The Apple Services team is looking for a talented software QA engineer with a strong analytical background to develop server automation and test backend services for Apple Podcasts. Candidates should be skilled in blackbox and gray box testing with a desire to understand the bigger picture. Ideal candidates should be highly motivated with strong problem solving skills, attention to detail, the ability to ask the right questions and communicate effectively across the organization. The engineer must be able to discuss and analyze specific features and produce test cases on incoming changes and previous verifiable functionality.

Day to day work involves bug reporting and isolation, test plan documentation, authoring, monitoring and maintaining automation and working closely with other teams (engineering, project management, etc.) This position demands a self-motivated individual with strong technical and communication skills who can contribute in a team environment. Possess exceptional analytical skills in test case design and bug diagnosis. Be dynamic and prepared to test/regress a high volume of changes on a day-to-day basis. Demonstrate excellent bug reporting skills and the ability to communicate clearly. Web application and API qualification will be primary QA focus areas and backend data validation will also be required on a as needed basis. Candidate should possess the ability to build reusable api automation frameworks.

Education & Experience
BS EE/CE/CS or equivalent

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