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The people here at Apple don’t just create products - they build the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. At Apple, inclusion is a shared responsibility, and we work together to foster a culture where everyone belongs and is inspired to do their best work.\nWe’re a diverse collective of thinkers and doers, continuously reimagining our products and practices to help people do what they love in new ways. That innovation is inspired by a shared commitment to great work - and to each other. Because learning from the people here means we’re learning from the best. Retail Operations creates the tools and programs that empower our teams to provide, a one of a kind, only at Apple experience. We do this by obsessing over the employee and customer experience, and driving a global strategy that sets the bar.\nThe Retail Technology, QA Engineering team owns quality standards, strategy and execution for customer facing interactive apps and systems. Our stack spans AV hardware, interactive players, device targeting logic, demo apps, content management systems, content bundles, SDKs and experience frameworks. We compose all of this into innovative, scaleable customer demo experiences worldwide.\nDescription\nWe are seeking a Sr. Quality Engineer to own strategy and execution across a portfolio of applications and systems deployed to Apple Stores worldwide. You will design and drive automated test coverage across this portfolio while maintaining a healthy balance of exploratory testing. 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Quality ownership for a multi-platform client family, including app version compatibility matrix and the content or services they depend on.\nProficient in Swift and Python with the ability to build and maintain automation, debug and extend client apps and backend services under test.\nProven experience testing web applications and backend services end to end, including API and contract testing, browser automation (e.g. Playwright), and data-driven validation across a CMS and its clients.\nExperience testing asynchronous, distributed workflows - job orchestration, retries and idempotency, partial failure, and eventual consistency (e.g. Temporal, Airflow, or equivalent).\nSkilled in root-causing failures across multiple system boundaries, spanning netowrking, client, service, content layers etc.\nComfortable working in a trunk-based / mainline development environment, driving confidence through CI coverage, feature flags, and staged rollout rather than a release-candidate handoff.\nServe as the go/no-go decision maker for user-acceptance, production-validation testing and customer-facing releases.\nExperience with CI/CD pipelines and version control (Jenkins, GitHub, Docker/Kubernetes, Ansible, Rundeck), including running automated client and service suites as a merge gate.\nBS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.\nPreferred Qualifications\nClient performance profiling with instruments - memory footprint, launch time, and rendering behavior on long-running unattended devices.\nExperience testing client behavior under degraded or offline network conditions, including content caching and recovery.\nWorking knowledge of observability tooling (e.g. Splunk, Datadog) - able to define what a feature should log, not only consume existing dashboards.\nTest data and environment management - mirroring production data into lower environments, seeding realistic content, and reasoning about staging fidelity.\nAccessibility and multi-locale validation for customer-facing applications.\nExcellent written and verbal communication. 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