Quality Engineer, Rights & Pricing

Cupertino, California, United States Software and Services

The Rights & Pricing engineering team provides the Apple Services platform for distribution rights by country, calculation and management of prices including retail, offers, wholesale, and tax. The Pricing QA team ensures the quality, reliability, and scalability of complex backend pricing systems that power Apple Services across multiple products and regions.

We are looking for a highly skilled and hands‑on Quality Engineer who is passionate about delivering high‑quality software through strong technical depth, thoughtful test strategy, and scalable automation.

In this role, you will work closely with Engineering, Product, and Quality teams to validate backend services, APIs, and pricing workflows across Apple Services. You will contribute to test planning, exploratory testing, automation development, and release validation while gaining experience working within large‑scale distributed systems. The ideal candidate has a strong technical foundation, curiosity to learn complex systems, and interest in building scalable automation solutions while maintaining a strong focus on customer impact and product quality.

• Execute functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing for backend services, APIs, and pricing workflows across Apple Services
• Develop and maintain automated tests and test utilities for backend systems, using maintainable, well‑structured code that integrates into shared test infrastructure
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product partners during feature design and development to understand requirements, identify testability gaps, and define coverage strategies
• Debug failures across APIs, services, log output, and test environments using structured diagnostic approaches, and document findings to support root cause resolution
• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline automation, including test integration, execution reporting, and release validation workflows
• Measure and improve test reliability, automation coverage, and execution efficiency using defined quality metrics
• Participate in test planning sessions, feature reviews, and quality discussions across the development lifecycle
• Evaluate and apply AI‑assisted testing tools (e.g., automated test case generation, coverage gap analysis) where they reduce manual overhead and accelerate feedback cycles
• Produce structured quality status updates, risk summaries, and release readiness assessments for engineering and cross‑functional stakeholders

• 2+ years of professional experience in software quality engineering, QA automation, software testing, or a closely related software engineering discipline
• Programming proficiency in Python or another modern, object‑oriented language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Go), with the ability to write readable, maintainable test code
• Demonstrated experience testing backend systems, REST APIs, or service integrations, including validation of response contracts, error handling, and data integrity
• Hands‑on experience writing and maintaining automated tests using a structured framework (e.g., pytest, JUnit, TestNG, or equivalent)
• Working familiarity with REST API concepts and tooling -- including HTTP methods, status codes, request/response structure, and tools such as Postman, curl, or equivalent
• Working familiarity with CI/CD pipeline concepts and how automated tests integrate into build and release workflows (e.g., Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, or equivalent)
• Ability to debug and investigate failures across application logic, API behavior, data state, and test infrastructure using logs, error output, and systematic isolation techniques
• Foundational understanding of software development lifecycle methodologies and how quality engineering activities map to design, development, and release phases
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

• Experience with pytest or comparable backend automation frameworks, including fixture management, parameterization, and test organization patterns
• Experience validating complex business logic in pricing…