Media Conferencing Quality Test Engineer

Apple Inc.•San Diego, CA

63d

About The Position

Apple is where individual creativities capture together, contributing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other's ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It's the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you'll do more than join something - you'll add something. AMT provides the media and graphics foundation across all of Apple's innovative products, including Mac, iPod, TV, iPhone, iPad, Watch, VisionPro and also Apple Intelligence. Developing groundbreaking software techniques, AMT takes the media experience to the next level. We are looking for a hardworking software quality engineer with a strong technical background and understanding of different network topologies, video, and audio technologies. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and conducting Performance tests and building automated testing for the aforementioned features on all Apple supported platforms. Work and chip in towards quality engineering / QA of Real-time Communication technologies in Audio Media Technology (AMT) at Apple and build test automation to qualify audio and video quality in complex scenarios emulating real world network traffic types. The Media Conferencing QE team provides the networking and media frameworks for Group FaceTime, FaceTime, Phone Continuity, HomeKit IP Cameras, WiFi-Calling / VoLTE, RTT, Sidecar, AirPlay 4K HDR and much more.You will work very closely with the Real-time communications development and multi-functional teams to ensure quality is of the highest level. You will also be creating u0026 tracking high quality bug reports, triaging issues by closely working with developers, and reporting on project progress u0026 risk analysis. Testing will be comprised of determining details about the complex product/feature, coming up with a testing matrix, putting the testing matrix into an executable test plan. As part of the role, you will be working with many different multi-functional teams, establishing relationships across team, finding holes in overall test strategy. In addition, part of your testing may also require you to implement testing manually with the end goal of automating that testing. Collaboration and automated testing will be key to this role's success. In addition to writing and maintaining a set of tests, you will also be responsible for driving fixes of many other critical performance tests run by multi-functional technology teams.

Requirements

2-5 years of industry experience, particularly in driving testing of large complex projects
Experience testing Video/Audio codecs or Video/Audio evaluation systems
Experience with networking protocols such as RTP, RTCP
Experience with 3GPP/ IR.92 standard
Experience with data analytics and visualization tools like MongoDB and Tableau
CI/CD, containerization

Responsibilities

developing and conducting Performance tests
building automated testing
creating u0026 tracking high quality bug reports
triaging issues by closely working with developers
reporting on project progress u0026 risk analysis
determining details about the complex product/feature
coming up with a testing matrix
putting the testing matrix into an executable test plan
establishing relationships across team, finding holes in overall test strategy
implement testing manually with the end goal of automating that testing
writing and maintaining a set of tests
driving fixes of many other critical performance tests run by multi-functional technology teams