# Senior MacOS QA Engineer

As the Senior macOS QA Engineer, you will be responsible for validating the stability, security, and compatibility of a secure macOS platform used to protect sensitive systems. This is a hands-on manual and exploratory QA role (not an automation role) that requires deep, practical experience with macOS internals, system extensions, and application behavior. You will work alongside a highly experienced team of engineers and reverse engineers to design and execute manual test plans that dig into system extensions, inter-process communication, and low-level operating system behavior. If you thrive on identifying edge cases, love all things macOS, enjoy breaking complex systems in controlled ways, and have an investigative mindset for system behavior, this role is for you. Responsibilities Test macOS security features spanning system extensions, Endpoint Security, and Network Extension frameworks. Design and execute manual test plans for system extensions, inter-process communication (XPC), and low-level operating system integration points. Explore and document edge cases, race conditions, compatibility scenarios, and regressions across macOS versions. Reproduce and isolate complex iss

- **Id**: 915644
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sur-senior-macos-qa-engineer-2>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: DE, FR, GB, PL, ES, PT
- **Hiring countries total**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T18:41:17Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T08:25:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2643
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Recruiting & Staffing, IT Staffing & Staff Augmentation

## Company

- **Id**: 4875
- **Name**: Sur
- **Domain**: hiresur.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sur>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 42
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Remote working hours

- **Label**: EST
- **Utc offset min**: \-5
- **Utc offset max**: \-5

## Salary

- **Min**: 6500
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: month
- **Usd annual**: 78000

## Technologies

- **Tcpdump** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Germany** — Iso: DE; Kind: country
- **France** — Iso: FR; Kind: country
- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country
- **Poland** — Iso: PL; Kind: country
- **Spain** — Iso: ES; Kind: country
- **Portugal** — Iso: PT; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-14T19:59:57Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-06T20:16:28Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-06T22:53:25Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 54
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.542
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 42
- **Reasons**: conf:1, agency, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 78000
- **Is top pay**: no

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