Stability Automation Engineer

About This Role

Design, develop, and maintain automated stress and stability hardware-centric software tests for embedded systems, scaling to support thousands of devices daily with minimal lab downtime. The role involves creating new command line, OS, and web software tools for system restore, kickoff, status, triage, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Create new command line, OS and web software tools for restore, kickoff, status, triage and reporting purposes
• Design and write on-the-fly automated stress and stability hardware-centric software tests for embedded systems
• Maintain existing test and reporting software that scales to support 1000s of devices daily with minimal lab downtime
• Identify, reproduce, and isolate bugs found via debugging and performance analysis tools
• Report issues in accordance with Apple bug reporting methods and testing guidelines
• Perform all assigned software tasks and validate them through internal and independent QA process
• Complete all assigned radars in a timely manner
• Follow common software development processes including pull requests, unit tests, and radar updates
• Maintain clear, effective, and timely communication with the team

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in automation development in HW/SW test engineering
• Experience developing software automation of low-level and user-level UI in scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Swift or JavaScript
• Experience with web and database technologies such as Tableau, MySQL, PHP, jQuery, HTML5, CSS
• Strong knowledge of Unix and Unix shell scripting
• Strong communication, written skills, and interpersonal skills

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in automation development in HW/SW test engineering

Nice to Have

• Ability to solve hardware systems to component level and perform root-cause analysis
• Experience with developing web-based automation frameworks as well as database design
• Experience writing OS X or iOS applications
• Experience in testing HW
• Experience in building data visualization

Skills

* Required skills