Senior Staff Quality Automation Engineer, Rights & Pricing- Partner Onboarding Business

The Rights u0026 Pricing engineering team provides the Apple Services platform for distribution rights by country calculation and management of prices including retail offers wholesale and tax. Rights u0026 Pricing also includes Partner Onboarding which encompasses the vendor application process signing of digital contracts collection of bank account and tax information and business systems that manage the presentation layers of payments invoicing and financial reporting.

We are looking for a highly skilled and hands-on QA Automation Engineer who is passionate about building scalable automation frameworks improving product quality and leveraging AI to accelerate testing. This role requires strong coding skills deep understanding of test automation and the ability to work closely with engineering and product teams to enable a shift-left automation-first quality strategy. Provides IC leadership by shaping automation standards and driving cross-functional quality decisions

Design develop and maintain scalable UI and API automation frameworks with reliable reusable test suites using modern tools (e.g. Playwright Selenium REST clients) and clean code in JavaScript/TypeScript Python or JavanIntegrate automation into CI/CD pipelines and advocate for shift-left testing including pre-merge validation and automation gatingnEnsure comprehensive test coverage across functional regression and integration layers including test data strategies for complex systemsnDebug failures improve test stability and flakiness and optimize test execution performancenContribute to test infrastructure shared libraries and utilities while reviewing automation and product code to uphold quality standardsnLeverage AI tools (e.g. LLMs code assistants test generators) to accelerate test creation improve coverage automate defect detection and drive innovation in quality engineeringnPartner with Product and Engineering early in the development lifecycle to define test strategies and acceptance criterianDrive quality best practices and take end-to-end ownership of quality for features and servicesnWork across multiple environments and integrations to ensure end-to-end validation in close partnership with cross-functional teams (Engineering Product DevOps)nProvide clear status risks and quality insights to stakeholders

58 years of experience in QA Automation / Software Quality EngineeringnStrong programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript Python or JavanHands-on experience with automation frameworks (e.g. Playwright Selenium Cypress)nExperience with API testing (REST JSON Postman etc.)nFamiliarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins GitHub Actions etc.)nSolid understanding of software development lifecycle and testing methodologies

Experience with AI/ML tools for testing (LLMs code generation test optimization)nExperience in distributed systems / integration testingnKnowledge of cloud environments (AWS Kubernetes)nExperience with performance or security testing is a plus