Job Details

QA Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Apr 23, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200595584

Would you like to play a vital part in helping Apple achieve wide product connectivity compatibility? Connectivity is a key feature of Apple devices, and we ensure compatibility with other products, which is essential for providing users with the best possible experience.

We are the Product Systems Quality team, and we work across product lines and various products, including Mac, iPhone, Vision Pro, and Apple TV! We ensure that our products adhere to industry standards.

You’ll contribute to the high-quality of Apple’s world-changing products, from early prototypes to final designs. In many cases, you will be working on new technologies being incorporated in future products.

Come join our team!

Description

As a QA Engineer, you will assume the responsibility of ensuring the quality of device compatibility with Apple products. This entails interoperability validation and testing compliance protocols for USB, Thunderbolt, DisplayPort, and HDMI. You will have the opportunity to automate tests when feasible to improve test coverage and provide a comprehensive analysis of the identified issues.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct interoperability testing for technologies including USB & HDMI
• Review product capabilities and develop a customized test plan to address risks.
• Work with cross-functional teams to review test strategies and validation status.
• Run protocol compliance validation (USB, DisplayPort, HDMI, and others).
• Communicate technical concepts to wide-ranging audiences.
• Take ownership of multiple concurrent projects and provide consistent status updates.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar engineering field

• Understanding of USB, Thunderbolt and DisplayPort technologies

• Experience working with industry standard protocol compliance test tools

• This position requires 100% on-site work (no remote work)

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Compliance Test Specs for USB, DisplayPort and HDMI

• 3+ years of QA experience testing interoperability

• Familiarity in debugging with logic analyzers and protocol analyzers

• Automation script development using Python or Shell Scripting

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