Software Development Engineer in Test (Local Storage)
Apple
Full-time
On-site
Austin, Texas, United States
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Join the Storage System Quality Engineering team responsible for ensuring highest quality for storage technology at the heart of Apple products known to surprise and delight millions of customers by working on exciting new products. The nature of the position requires the candidate to have excellent communication skills, strong technical and debugging skills, along with a drive to make a difference. You will be working in a fast paced environment, interacting directly with software development team and other QA teams cross functionally.
Join the Storage System Quality Engineering team responsible for ensuring highest quality for storage technology at the heart of Apple products known to surprise and delight millions of customers by working on exciting new products. The nature of the position requires the candidate to have excellent communication skills, strong technical and debugging skills, along with a drive to make a difference. You will be working in a fast paced environment, interacting directly with software development team and other QA teams cross functionally.
Description
You will join a dynamic team responsible for qualifying the latest Apple Products with a focus on local storage. Successful candidate will participate in deep technical discussions with engineering teams, understand the impact of storage drivers/NAND firmware wrt to customer workloads and own the automated testing workflow with strong sense of ownership.
Core Responsibilities Include:
Contributing to automation framework with focus on scalability and reliability of the tests, while promoting coding best practices.
Executing automated tests, analyze failure patterns and quantify impact with focus on customer experience.
Understand how file systems and storage are linked together and help focus on integration testing.
Work with development teams to help root cause issues found in test and drive post mortem discussions to think strategically about how to prevent similar issues in the future.
Actively involved in team code reviews, design and test discussions.
Ability to work under tight deadlines, achieve results by collaborating with/and influencing cross-functional teams.
Be willing to travel to Cupertino as and when needed.
Core Responsibilities Include:
Contributing to automation framework with focus on scalability and reliability of the tests, while promoting coding best practices.
Executing automated tests, analyze failure patterns and quantify impact with focus on customer experience.
Understand how file systems and storage are linked together and help focus on integration testing.
Work with development teams to help root cause issues found in test and drive post mortem discussions to think strategically about how to prevent similar issues in the future.
Actively involved in team code reviews, design and test discussions.
Ability to work under tight deadlines, achieve results by collaborating with/and influencing cross-functional teams.
Be willing to travel to Cupertino as and when needed.
Minimum Qualifications
- BS in Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent.
- Experience developing in Python.
- Knowledge of NAND flash and/or other related storage technologies or low level embedded technologies.
- Strong hands on experience with QA methodologies or prior QA experience.
- Strong bug reporting skills and communicate clearly with management and cross functional teams.
- Familiarity with Source Control Management such as svn or git
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience solving complex problems & triaging issues both hardware and software.
- Experience in C is a plus but not required.
- Understanding and /or desire to understand storage interfaces like PCIe, NVMe, SCSI etc
- Automation planning, execution, and triage for projects on any of the platforms: iOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS is desirable
- Experience setting up and maintaining automation racks is desirable but not a must.
- DataAnalysis experience with Splunk/Tableau or any similar tools is preferred.
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
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