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About the Role
Apple is seeking a world-class Quality Analyst (QA) for the Data Solutions & Initiatives (DSI) team. This role is crucial for supporting global initiatives and launching new features for Apple's demand generation strategy. The position requires a strong background in quality assurance, data analysis, and system testing, with a specific focus on evaluating AI-powered and LLM-based features in production environments. The ideal candidate will possess a blend of technical and data analysis skills to ensure data quality in a dynamic setting.
Responsibilities
- Deep dive into financial and hierarchical data points across different sets of hierarchies, understanding complex data behavior.
- Define and implement test strategies based on product manager-driven functional requirements.
- Collaborate with product managers to define test plans ensuring data quality for new development and regular data loads.
- Drive test coverage across various source systems, transactional applications, and reporting environments, considering new features and regression.
- Execute test scenarios repeatably for easy data quality monitoring.
- Coordinate release management and make go/no-go decisions regarding data quality and functional behavior.
- Act as the first point of contact for production operations issues, confirming behavior and prioritizing with the product manager.
- Report findings in a clear, structured, and actionable manner.
- Collaborate with engineers to understand implementation logic.
- Manage tickets for identified data issues and work with the product manager to plan bug fixes.
- Communicate status updates concisely and timely to end users and stakeholders.
Requirements
- At least 5+ years of relevant experience (e.g., QA, Quality Engineering, Data QA, or similar).
- Strong communication skills with the ability to interpret technical concepts and data findings for non-technical users.
- Experience applying a data-driven QA approach, including data reconciliation or validation, in business-critical environments.
- Hands-on experience with SQL and at least one analytics or reporting tool (e.g., Business Objects, Tableau, or similar).
- Ability to independently investigate and validate datasets.
- Experience executing automated test cases using languages or frameworks such as Python, JavaScript, or Selenium.
- Experience working in cross-functional teams using Agile frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban.
- Familiarity with LLM-based or AI-powered systems, including hands-on experimentation or professional exposure.
- Understanding of prompt-based systems and how changes to prompts or inputs affect outputs.
- Experience using collaboration and tracking tools such as Jira, Confluence, Quip, or similar.
- Strong problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and able to work independently or as part of a team.
- Ability to learn quickly and adapt in a fast-paced environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
Skills
- SQL
- Analytics or reporting tools (e.g., Business Objects, Tableau)
- Automated test case execution (Python, JavaScript, Selenium)
- Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban)
- LLM-based or AI-powered systems
- Prompt-based systems
- Collaboration and tracking tools (Jira, Confluence, Quip)
- Problem-solving
- Attention to detail
- Data analysis
- System testing
- Backend API validation
- Data pipeline validation
- Service-based system validation
- Automated test framework design
- Test infrastructure
- Complex SQL joins
- SQL aggregations
- Large dataset validation
- Dimensional modeling
- Data warehousing concepts
- Data migration testing
- Source-to-target validation
- CI/CD pipelines
- Model behavior evaluation
- Hallucination detection
- Grounding checks
- Consistency analysis
- Observability
- Logging
- Monitoring for data or AI systems
- BI data systems
- Financial data systems
- Hierarchical data systems
Location
- Apple Park Way, Cupertino, CA
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of relevant experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience
- Master’s degree preferred
About the Company
- Apple doesn't just create products; they create wonder that revolutionizes entire industries.
- Innovation is driven by the diversity of people and their ideas.
- Commitment to industry-leading environmental efforts.