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Apple Software Image Quality Engineer United States, California, Cupertino 606215995
30.08.2024
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Description
In this role, you will be responsible for planning, designing, maintaining and executing test cases with minimal direction. Your ability to free test, without scripts and tools, will be paramount. Report bugs with outstanding isolation and regression techniques will be the key to your success. This role requires balancing a wide variety of deliverables that will rely on your talent for managing priorities and communicating progress and risks effectively and systematically. Your ongoing curiosity and dedication to self-education in video technologies as well as new testing techniques is what will set you apart. You will be working closely with other team members to help coordinate multi-functional test efforts. You will be in continual dialogue with Engineering and Design as products evolve and you will need to have compassion for users so you can effectively advocate on their behalf. The ability to streamline processes for data collection and systematically parse large data sets will be a huge plus.
Minimum Qualifications
- 2+ years of proven experience as a professional photographer in a competitive industry
- Experience with digital photography, video with a deep understanding of photography: Exposure settings, WB, depth-of-field, bokeh, sharpening, denoising, HDR, etc.
- Understanding of subjective/objective image quality evaluation, and color science concepts
- Demonstrated ability to develop a testing methodology to gather input on subjective image/video quality changes
- Previous experience designing and conducting experiments, iterating through various parameters to optimize image/video quality
- Competency in applying photographic best practices and techniques
- Proficient with Image editing software
- Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent of 2 plus years relevant experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Analytical, methodical, inquisitive and persistent problem solver committed to driving quality forward
- Proficient at balancing multiple efforts simultaneously and meeting strict deadlines
- Can extract user scenarios from software feature descriptions and requirements to translate them into effective test plans and cases
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written)
- Ability to abstract technical details and effectively communicate to audiences at different levels
- iOS and macOS familiarity
- Understanding of UX principals
- QA Engineer experience is highly desired
- Have some understanding of computational photography and machine learning
Pay & Benefits
- At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $112,900 and $234,700, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
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