The Find My team is dedicated to building a seamless, private, and secure experience for users to locate their devices, personal items, and share location with friends and family. We're a group of highly motivated engineers, designers, and product managers who are passionate about creating a simple and reliable experience for hundreds of millions of users worldwide. We thrive in a fast paced environment where team members are often encouraged to wear multiple hats and contribute to various aspects of the product lifecycle. Innovation and creative problem-solving are at the heart of our team, and we constantly explore new approaches to deliver groundbreaking solutions while collaborating with diverse disciplines across the company, including hardware, software, and privacy, to deliver an exceptional user experience.
We're looking for a Software Developer in Test with a background in server-side and API testing. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining automated test frameworks to validate APIs, backend services, and server components. This role requires strong programming skills, deep understanding of API protocols, and experience with CI/CD integration. Candidate should be highly proactive individual with strong creative, technical, and analytical skills and is passionate about new technologies in automation.
As a Test Engineer on our team, you'll thrive in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, collaborating closely with a passionate team to ensure the highest quality for our shared mission. You'll be instrumental in designing and executing test strategies for exciting new features, and your contributions will directly impact millions of users. We embrace continuous iteration and improvement, so you'll have the opportunity to learn, grow, and refine your skills as we ensure the reliability and performance of Find My.
This role will focus on developing, driving, and delivering scalable test automation solutions. A successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop critically important test solutions that directly impact the quality of our consumer facing applications. In this role, you will be responsible for planning, designing, writing, maintaining and performing end-end test cases through manual and automation. You will drive all aspects of quality and process improvements to help the team ensure that our features are rock-solid and ready to be released to our customers. Reporting bugs with outstanding isolation and regression techniques will be the key to your success. This role also requires balancing a wide variety of deliverables that will rely on your talent for managing priorities and communicating progress and risks effectively and systematically. You will not only dive deep into solving complex problems, but you will also work closely with partners in various disciplines across the company, including SW, HW, Design, Privacy and more.
6+ years of experience in Automation.
Programming experience in Java, Python, or JavaScript.
Experience with test automation frameworks for API testing and backend services, including designing, implementing, and maintaining automated test suites.
Validate request/response payloads, headers, authentication, and error handling.
Analyze server logs and debug backend issues with query parameters.
Perform functional, regression, integration, and performance testing.
Work closely with developers and product teams to understand requirements.
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
Create and maintain test documentation, test cases.
Experience building dashboard to generate and post test reports.
Experience working with Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch etc.).
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills for collaborating across many participating teams.
BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Build and enhance API automation frameworks from scratch.
Experience with contract testing for server-side systems.
Familiarity with Docker and microservices architecture.
Security testing knowledge (API security best practices).
Passionate about learning new skills and technologies quickly and independently.
Proficient in resolving complex failures using advanced debugging techniques.
Familiarity with different server environments and test data pipelines.
Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction and design decisions from a quality perspective.
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