
Junior Software Development Engineer in Test, Sales Engineering
Apple · Posted 10 days ago
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Full-time
- 1-2 yrs
About the role
Summary
At Apple, great ideas quickly have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish here.
Do you want to be part of a team that builds cutting edge software service, a team that is continually innovating and is proud of making a difference? If so, bring your passion and talent and come join us to be part of something big and amazing.
Sales and Operations Engineering is part of IS&T and drives the technology behind Apple's global operations, sales, and supply chain. The team connects the systems that move products from factory to customer — bridging sales platforms with the operational infrastructure that keeps Apple running at scale and ensuring Apple's technology and business priorities move in lockstep.
Description
Apple’s IS&T team is looking for a Software Quality Engineer to contribute to design, analysis and certification of our applications. We are looking for someone who is equally passionate about quality and using lightweight processes to consistently achieve it. The role would also involve interacting with multi-functional engineering and product teams to test features, perform root cause analysis, and drive the quality of customer's experience.
Responsibilities
- Build QE test plans, strategies and cases for any given app/feature
- Collaborate with Dev, BPR and other project teams to execute test plans and deliver high quality products
- Automation, performance and code quality testing using tools like Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber-JVM, REST API, Appium, Postman, SOAPUI, JMeter, Jenkins, Sonarqube etc
- Experience of using GenAI models for coding and other tasks
- Perform functional, system, integration and exploratory testing
- Self-motivated, self-driven, able to grasp issues quickly and make educated, critical judgment in the situations of ambiguity and work through the constraints
- Provide project managers with timely and accurate testing status and progress during all testing phases, summarising results at project conclusion
- Able to multi-task in a dynamic, fast-paced environment in Agile method to deliver high-quality work on tight schedules
- Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 1 to 2 years of combined work experience in Software Development Engineer in Test/Quality Engineering
- Experience in developing test strategies, scenarios and cases for UI(Web and Mobile apps), API/Web Services, DB workflows etc
- Experience in functional, system, integration and exploratory testing
- Exposure to automation, performance, software quality testing tools and CI/CD integrations
- Experience working with Java, JavaScript, TypeScript.. programming languages
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to GenAI solutions and AI models
- Identify repetitive testing activities that can be improved through AI-assisted automation.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with frequent context switching
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with developers and product teams.
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
- Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and apply them to solve quality engineering challenges.
At Apple, we believe accessibility is a fundamental human right. You’ll find that idea reflected in everything here — in our culture, our benefits and our digital tools. By welcoming as many perspectives as possible, we help you build a career where you feel like you belong.
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Skills
Quark9 guide
How to land this Junior Software Development Engineer in Test, Sales Engineering role
Our notes for applicants, based on how QA and testing hiring usually works and on 327 similar open jobs on Quark9.
Resume checklist for this job
Most companies screen resumes with an ATS before a person reads them. Make sure each skill you genuinely have appears in your resume in the same words the job uses.
Must have
- Automation testing
- Performance testing
- Code quality testing
- Functional testing
- System testing
- Exploratory testing
- CI/CD integrations
- GenAI models
- Java, JavaScript, TypeScript
- Name the frameworks and languages you automated with, not just "automation testing"
- Give numbers: test coverage added, regression time cut, defects caught before release
- Mention CI tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) if your tests ran in a pipeline
What interviewers expect: fresher or early career
Interviewers look for strong fundamentals, projects you built yourself, internships and how quickly you learn. Put projects and coursework above hobbies, and be ready to explain every line of them.
How QA and testing interviews usually run
- A screening call on your testing background and the tools you have used
- A practical round: write test cases for a feature, or find bugs in a sample app
- An automation round on your framework of choice (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium)
- A final discussion with the engineering manager on process and release quality
Questions worth preparing
- How would you test a login page? Walk through functional, negative and security cases.
- What is the difference between regression, smoke and sanity testing, and when do you run each?
- How do you decide what to automate and what to keep manual?
- Tell us about a bug that reached production. What did you change afterwards?
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