Automation Engineer

Preference:

• Someone with strong Python coding skills.
• Prior Apple experience.

Job Role: Automation Engineer

Location: Silicon Valley CA (Onsite) 5 days work from Office

Objective:

• Create new Command Line OS and web software tools for restore kickoff status triage and reporting purposes.
• Designing and writing onthefly automated stress and stability hardwarecentric software tests for embedded systems.
• Maintaining existing test and reporting software that scales to support 1000s of devices daily with minimal lab downtime.
• Identify reproduce and isolate bugs found via debugging and performance analysis tools.
• Report issues in accordance with Apple bug reporting methods and testing guidelines.

Must have Skills:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in automation development in HW/SW test engineering.
• Experience developing software automation of lowlevel and userlevel UI in scripting languages such as Python Ruby Swift or JavaScript.
• Experience with web and database technologies such as Tableau MySQL PHP jQuery HTML5 CSS.
• Strong knowledge of Unix and Unix shell scripting.
• Strong communication written skills and interpersonal skills (required to establish and maintain interdepartmental relationships).

Preferred:

• Ability to solve hardware systems to component level and perform rootcause analysis.
• Experience with developing webbased automation frameworks as well as database design.
• Experience writing OS X or iOS applications.
• Experience in testing HW.
• Experience in building data visualization.

Success Criteria/Definition of Done:

• All assigned software tasks are completed and validated by our internal and independent QA process.
• All assigned radars in the queue are performed in a timely manner.
• All assigned software work follows a common software development process including but not limited to pull requests unit tests radar updates etc. All updates are timely clear concise and accurate.
• Communication with the team is clear effective and timely.