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Tools & Automation Backend Quality Engineer – App Store Analytics

Apple· Software and Services
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Seattle, WA$137.5k - $250.7kFull-timePosted 3d ago

About the role

Quality engineer focused on automated validation for large-scale App Store analytics data pipelines and UI/backend services. Drives shift-left testing, integrates test automation into CI/CD, and ensures data accuracy across ingestion, processing, and reporting layers for multiple Apple platforms and web.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain automated validation frameworks for data pipelines, backend and frontend App Analytics.
  • Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous validation, early defect detection, and continuous deployment.
  • Validate data pipelines built on Spark, Kafka, Flink, Hive, Hadoop, and Iceberg, ensuring correctness, completeness, and performance.
  • Develop scalable utilities for schema validation, data comparison, and regression checks across distributed datasets.
  • Conduct functional, regression, and data integrity testing across multiple storage and compute layers.
  • Build monitoring and alerting mechanisms for pipeline health and data quality KPIs.
  • Investigate, isolate, and debug complex data issues across client, backend, and frontend layer.
  • Design and document test strategies, automation architecture, and validation reports.
  • Partner with data, backend, and frontend engineers to shift quality left by embedding testability into data workflows, APIs, and UI early in the development lifecycle.
  • Leverage GenAI to improve testing efficiency and effectiveness.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar fields.
  • At least 7+ years industry experience in a similar role.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and/or Java for backend, frontend, data pipeline test automation.
  • Working knowledge of SQL and large-scale dataset validation across distributed storage or data lake environments.
  • Experience with REST API testing and test automation.
  • Experience with UI testing and test automation.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and continuous testing frameworks.
  • Proven experience implementing Shift-Left testing practices and embedding automation early in the SDLC.
  • Strong analytical, debugging, and communication skills.

Skills

Required:PythonJavaSQLREST API testingUI testingCI/CDBig Data frameworks

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses—including tuition
  • potential discretionary bonuses or commission
  • relocation assistance
  • employee stock programs (RSUs, stock purchase plan)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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