Job Details

Software Quality Engineer, Photos

Cupertino, California, United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: Sep 06, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200619500-0836

At Apple, you can be your best creative and professional self. In the Camera & Photos group, our mission is to combine exceptional hardware and software to create unparalleled experiences for millions. From capturing cherished personal moments to preserving, enriching, and sharing those memories with others, we are dedicated to delivering a world-class user experience. Upholding the quality that epitomizes the Apple Promise requires a dedicated team of champions, and you could be one of them!

As a Photos Quality Engineering team member, you'll collaborate on our talented team to develop exciting and useful new experiences that exceed the expectations of our many users. Your experience as a hands-on and results-driven software quality engineer, coupled with your passion for photography, makes you an ideal candidate for this role. You will not only have the opportunity to exercise your full range of functional technical skills, but also contribute your insights and imagination to making our products and their development truly exceptional.

Description

As an active individual contributor you will collaborate with peers across development and quality teams to ensure the robustness of new and ongoing core user experiences and frameworks. Primary responsibilities will encompass functional, regression, and integration testing across most platforms in the Apple ecosystem.

While working as part of a close-knit team, you will independently investigate, triage, escalate and resolve the issues you and others encounter. Your daily work will involve iterative software validation of both existing and new tools and technologies, utilizing both manual and automated approaches. The demanding work environment requires the ability to balance multiple concurrent projects while delivering your significant contributions to their success. You will be accountable for driving and triaging automated testing, including script authoring as necessary. Excellent oral and written communication skills, as well as effective organizational abilities, are essential due to the detailed and time-bound nature of the work and the extensive collaboration with others.

Responsibilities

• Develops test plans for new feature development and testing

• Tests shipping and unreleased features across multiple devices and platforms

• Documents, communicates and assists in prioritizing software defects

• Develops test automation in support of UI features and frameworks

• Communicates feature quality to a broad set of stakeholders

Minimum Qualifications

• 3 years of professional experience in consumer software test engineering, utilizing manual and automated methods, with broad exposure to user interface development

• Extensive test plan development experience; proficiency in prioritizing and escalating issues to stakeholders; creatively driving projects to successful completion

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for prolific and effective problem/defect discovery; identification of critical problems and their resolution

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, underscoring effective communication to diverse audiences, are essential; comfortable sharing considered opinions and seeking the same from others

• Effective in balancing multiple tasks and meeting tight deadlines while keeping to a holistic quality vision; resiliency with fluid and evolving project priorities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in consumer application automation within the Apple ecosystem is a plus

• Test development using Swift, XCTest, Jenkins, remote VM, or Python

• Experience with automation triage and general CI processes

• Skilled and experienced in testing digital media apps, with a very strong understanding of both common and specialized flows around ingest and sharing, editing and organizing, intelligent and personalized experiences

• Deeply knowledgeable regarding Apple's current hardware and software ecosystem; very familiar with Photos, Camera, and other video and photographic offerings from Apple and industry leaders

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 $101,200 and $197,500, 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 about Apple Benefits. (https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html)

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 seek to promote 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) .

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote 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) .

Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation.

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