The App Store Analytics Quality Engineering team is looking to solve the problem of ensuring the accuracy, reliability, and integrity of customer experience data that powers features and insights across the App Store ecosystem at Apple
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with Big Data frameworks (Spark, Kafka, Flink, Hadoop, Hive, Iceberg)
- Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and deployment automation
- Knowledge of Charles Proxy, Postman, or equivalent tools for API and network validation
- Exposure to iOS/macOS platforms and Swift (for end-to-end validation scenarios)
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or Java for backend test automation and data validation
- Working knowledge of SQL and large-scale dataset validation across distributed storage or data lake environments
- Experience with REST API testing and automation
Responsibilities
- Implementing and maintaining automated validation frameworks for data pipelines and services
- Integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous feedback and early defect detection
- Partnering with developers to shift quality left by embedding testability into data workflows and APIs
- Ensuring consistency and correctness of client-to-backend data flows across iOS, macOS, tvOS, and Web
- Design, implement, and maintain automated test frameworks for backend data validation, ETL verification, and system integration testing
- Collaborate with data and backend engineers to embed test hooks and validations early in the development lifecycle (Shift-Left)
- Validate data pipelines built on Spark, Kafka, Flink, Hive, Hadoop, and Iceberg, ensuring correctness, completeness, and performance
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar
- Strong analytical, debugging, and communication skills
- Proven experience implementing Shift-Left testing practices and embedding automation early in the SDLC
- Passion for building maintainable, reusable, and scalable test automation systems
- Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity
