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The Apple Media Products (AMP) Search Team is looking for an extraordinary Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer to help test next-generation search features. AMP platforms are the largest online marketplace for digital media in the world. Responsibilities include: performing functional, regression, ad-hoc and compatibility testing of Search features and RESTful APIs. Day to day work involves maintaining and growing a suite of automated Search API tests, bug reporting and isolation, test plan documentation, and working closely with other teams (engineering, project management, etc.).
Key Qualifications
- We are seeking someone with:
- Demonstrated knowledge of object-oriented programming in Python
- Proven experience testing Client-Server products
- Experience with implementing automated tests for back end systems
- Familiarity with UI and API automation frameworks and tools
STRONG UNDERSTANDING OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
- Excellent technical knowledge and understanding of complex system architectures to design effective test strategies and drive execution
- Experience with testing and/or implementing REST APIs, RPC Service Patterns, Web Sockets, and other client/server interaction models
- Bachelors degree or 5 years relevant experience testing software using automation
- Ability to lead projects and operate as part of a team
Description
WE ARE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WITH:
- Exceptional analytical skills in test case design and bug diagnosis
- Proficiency in and experience with applying software engineering standard methodologies and principles.
- Ability to test/regress a high volume of changes on a day-to-day basis
- Excellent bug reporting skills and the ability to communicate clearly with various teams across multiple geos
- Strong commitment to technical quality assurance as a key part of the software development cycle
- Be an independent thinker, leader, and problem solver
- Be comfortable with test driven development (TDD), static analysis tools and IDEs
- Initiative and drive for constant improvement of test automation frameworks and be able to refactor or implement new frameworks from the ground up
- Ability to collaborate with Software Engineers, DevOps and Product owners to verify the testability of releases and define strategies and standard methodologies for all streams (functional / non functional and automation).
Education & Experience
Bachelor /Master Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Additional Requirements
Desired Skills
- Basic understanding of Lucene/Solr
- Experience automating in a CI/CD environment
- Background testing search technologies a plus
- Experience with OOP and design patterns, Java and MVC software/web/API development experience
- Understanding of HDFS and other Big Data technologies (e.g. Kafka, Voldemort, etc)
- Working knowledge of Natural Language Processing is a plus
- Familiarity with performance, load and stress testing is a plus
Role Number: 200247706