Summary

Posted: Feb 27, 2020

Role Number:200005207

Be part of the Input Device QE team, focused on testing firmware and ensuring ultra-high quality for Apple's next generation human...Summary

Summary

Posted: Feb 27, 2020

Role Number:200005207

Be part of the Input Device QE team, focused on testing firmware and ensuring ultra-high quality for Apple's next generation human interface devices. This includes technologies such as Multitouch, Heart-rate sensing, TouchID, 3D Touch, and other input device technologies across a variety of Apple's product line. Testing is focused on microcontroller based firmware interfaced with sensors and various other system components.

You will be a motivated individual who independently follows up on bugs, collaborates with developers to resolve low-level issues and can understand and discuss technical problems with other QE engineers, development partners and program managers.

Key Qualifications

• Understanding microcontroller based embedded systems, including algorithms
• Partnering with a development team to quickly understand an architecture, break it into functional parts, come up with a plan to test/validate, and identify and target weaknesses
• Crafting creative ways to exercise embedded subsystems, communication protocols (SPI, I2C, etc) and high-level features of embedded devices
• Devising and building test fixtures, building tools and authoring automated scripts
• Executing manual and automated test plans on early prototypes, typically at the "grey box" level
• Helping to craft quality from a very early stage, ushering the product from early prototype to production
• Documentation of test cases and code used for test execution
• Coming up with ideas for custom tools and methods to exercise firmware features
• Tracking performance, reporting results to management, driving issues to closure
• Partnering with Human Factors / User Study Group to validate the customer experience and learn about how humans use new input devices

AN EXCELLENT CANDIDATE WILL:
- Have a real passion for quality, enjoy breaking things through creative testing
- Thrive in uncertain, early prototype stages of a project when not all features are working yet, and enjoy putting energy into identifying/classifying issues as a way to improve quality
- Strive to innovate and try new things, incorporating continuous improvement of testing methods

Education & Experience

BS or MS in CS/CPE/EE or related degrees

Additional Requirements

• 2+ years experience with embedded systems, microcontrollers and sensors
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• HELPFUL/USEFUL EXPERIENCE:
• - Experience writing and/or testing firmware, building embedded systems
• - Knowledge of Mac systems and MacOS/iOS or UNIX variant
• - Track record of shipping great consumer products
• - Testing automation using Python or similar
• - Use of hardware debugging tools - USB and Bluetooth CATC, protocol analyzer, logic analyzer, oscilloscope
• - Familiarity with C/C++ or object-oriented programming
• - Test tool development
• - Continuous integration systems
• - Algorithm analysis and validation