Quality Automation Engineer, Rights&Pricing- Partner …, Monte Vista

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 Java\\nIntegrate automation into CI/CD pipelines and advocate for shift-left testing, including pre-merge validation and automation gating\\nEnsure comprehensive test coverage across functional, regression, and integration layers, including test data strategies for complex systems\\nDebug failures, improve test stability and flakiness, and optimize test execution performance\\nContribute to test infrastructure, shared libraries, and utilities while reviewing automation and product code to uphold quality standards\\nLeverage AI tools (e.g., LLMs, code assistants, test generators) to accelerate test creation, improve coverage, automate defect detection, and drive innovation in quality engineering\\nPartner with Product and Engineering early in the development lifecycle to define test strategies and acceptance criteria\\nDrive quality best practices and take end-to-end ownership of quality for features and services\\nWork 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 5–8 years of experience in QA Automation / Software Quality Engineering\\nStrong programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or Java\\nHands-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 testing\\nKnowledge of cloud environments (AWS, Kubernetes)\\nExperience with performance or security testing is a plus