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Get Access To All JobsAt Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming excellent products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish!
Claris, an Apple company, is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their best work. Just be ready to dream big. The workplace today is flooded by applications, but organizations struggle to integrate and automate processes that run across them. At Claris, we are building a better way for the world's 500 million knowledge workers to do their jobs better. We accomplish this by empowering them to automate their processes and integrate data across all their applications in a matter of days thanks to an easy-to-use visual platform.
If you're passionate about testing intelligent software that runs where customer data lives, love APIs, and want to be part of a team that's shaping the future of how people work, this is your team. You'll help ensure that the tools our customers depend on are reliable, secure, and ready for the real world.
Description
We are looking for a QA engineer who uses Swift to test software that helps organizations make sense of their data. This is an opportunity to join a team building solutions where quality is the product. You'll work across macOS system services, multi-process architectures, and performance-sensitive components to make sure what we ship works the way customers expect. To be successful, you will bring creative energy to collaboration, communication, and producing high-quality deliverables.
You'll work on problems that matter. The software you test protects customer data, keeps critical systems running, and delivers tools that organizations from schools to hospitals trust every day. We're looking for someone who solves problems, takes initiative, and cares about the people who use what we build.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites in Swift using XCTest and Swift Testing frameworks.
- Test macOS server software across process lifecycle events including installation, upgrade, crash recovery, and uninstall.
- Validate REST API endpoints, SSE streams, and WebSocket connections through functional and integration testing.
- Profile application performance using Xcode Instruments and identify regressions in latency, memory, and resource usage.
- Investigate and triage concurrency issues using Thread Sanitizer and strict concurrency checking.
- Collaborate with developers to define testability requirements early in the development cycle.
- Build and maintain CI pipelines using xcodebuild for automated test execution across configurations.
- Execute long-running stability and soak tests to validate system reliability under sustained load.
- Test code signing, notarization, and installer packaging workflows for macOS distribution.
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release readiness reviews.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's in Computer Science or equivalent
- Strong problem-solving and analytics skills, with the ability to investigate, debug and triage issues in complex multi-process macOS applications independently and cooperatively.
- Practical experience with Swift programming language and testing tools/frameworks (e.g. XCTest, Swift Testing with @Test/@Suite/#expect, Xcode Instruments). Familiar with xcodebuild CLI and CI integration.
- Experience with testing macOS server software, including process lifecycle management (launchd, SMJobBless), code signing, notarization, and installation/upgrade workflows.
- Experience testing actor-based Swift concurrency, including data race detection with Thread Sanitizer (TSan) and strict concurrency checking. Familiarity with long-running stability and soak testing.
- Strong understanding of RESTful API, OpenAPI specification, SSE (Server-Sent Events), and service testing. Experience testing solutions utilizing WebSockets and JWT/OAuth validation is desired.
- Familiarity with performance testing on macOS, including Xcode Instruments profiling (Time Profiler, Allocations, Leaks) and resource constraint testing.
- Experience testing AI-integrated features or machine learning pipelines, including validating model outputs, latency, and deterministic behavior. Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar tool-use frameworks is a plus.
- Experience in Agile software development methodologies/Scrum and rapid releases.
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience quality engineering experience in modern web technologies and using XCTest and Swift Testing framework
- Computer Science-Software Engineering Degree or equivalent software engineering experience
- Demonstrated experience testing software using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) or Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodology to define and execute scenario-based test coverage
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.
Pay & Benefits
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $139,500 and $210,100, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming excellent products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish!
Claris, an Apple company, is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their best work. Just be ready to dream big. The workplace today is flooded by applications, but organizations struggle to integrate and automate processes that run across them. At Claris, we are building a better way for the world's 500 million knowledge workers to do their jobs better. We accomplish this by empowering them to automate their processes and integrate data across all their applications in a matter of days thanks to an easy-to-use visual platform.
If you're passionate about testing intelligent software that runs where customer data lives, love APIs, and want to be part of a team that's shaping the future of how people work, this is your team. You'll help ensure that the tools our customers depend on are reliable, secure, and ready for the real world.
Description
We are looking for a QA engineer who uses Swift to test software that helps organizations make sense of their data. This is an opportunity to join a team building solutions where quality is the product. You'll work across macOS system services, multi-process architectures, and performance-sensitive components to make sure what we ship works the way customers expect. To be successful, you will bring creative energy to collaboration, communication, and producing high-quality deliverables.
You'll work on problems that matter. The software you test protects customer data, keeps critical systems running, and delivers tools that organizations from schools to hospitals trust every day. We're looking for someone who solves problems, takes initiative, and cares about the people who use what we build.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites in Swift using XCTest and Swift Testing frameworks.
- Test macOS server software across process lifecycle events including installation, upgrade, crash recovery, and uninstall.
- Validate REST API endpoints, SSE streams, and WebSocket connections through functional and integration testing.
- Profile application performance using Xcode Instruments and identify regressions in latency, memory, and resource usage.
- Investigate and triage concurrency issues using Thread Sanitizer and strict concurrency checking.
- Collaborate with developers to define testability requirements early in the development cycle.
- Build and maintain CI pipelines using xcodebuild for automated test execution across configurations.
- Execute long-running stability and soak tests to validate system reliability under sustained load.
- Test code signing, notarization, and installer packaging workflows for macOS distribution.
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release readiness reviews.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's in Computer Science or equivalent
- Strong problem-solving and analytics skills, with the ability to investigate, debug and triage issues in complex multi-process macOS applications independently and cooperatively.
- Practical experience with Swift programming language and testing tools/frameworks (e.g. XCTest, Swift Testing with @Test/@Suite/#expect, Xcode Instruments). Familiar with xcodebuild CLI and CI integration.
- Experience with testing macOS server software, including process lifecycle management (launchd, SMJobBless), code signing, notarization, and installation/upgrade workflows.
- Experience testing actor-based Swift concurrency, including data race detection with Thread Sanitizer (TSan) and strict concurrency checking. Familiarity with long-running stability and soak testing.
- Strong understanding of RESTful API, OpenAPI specification, SSE (Server-Sent Events), and service testing. Experience testing solutions utilizing WebSockets and JWT/OAuth validation is desired.
- Familiarity with performance testing on macOS, including Xcode Instruments profiling (Time Profiler, Allocations, Leaks) and resource constraint testing.
- Experience testing AI-integrated features or machine learning pipelines, including validating model outputs, latency, and deterministic behavior. Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar tool-use frameworks is a plus.
- Experience in Agile software development methodologies/Scrum and rapid releases.
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience quality engineering experience in modern web technologies and using XCTest and Swift Testing framework
- Computer Science-Software Engineering Degree or equivalent software engineering experience
- Demonstrated experience testing software using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) or Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodology to define and execute scenario-based test coverage
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.
Pay & Benefits
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $139,500 and $210,100, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a QA Engineer
Document your QA specialization before applying
Employers filing PERM for QA roles must justify why a foreign worker fills the position. Gather evidence of specialized expertise, automation frameworks, testing methodologies, or domain-specific certifications, that differentiates your credentials from a generalist applicant pool.
Verify employers have active PERM filing history
Not every tech company sponsors green cards. Search DOL PERM disclosure data to confirm an employer has filed labor certifications for QA or software testing roles before investing time in their application process.
Check your role against EB-2 and EB-3 thresholds
QA Engineer positions requiring a bachelor's degree typically qualify under EB-3 as a skilled worker. Roles demanding a master's degree or equivalent specialized experience may support an EB-2 filing, which can affect your priority date strategy significantly.
Use Migrate Mate to target QA sponsoring employers
Sorting through employers who actually sponsor green cards for QA roles takes hours manually. Migrate Mate surfaces companies with verified PERM filing history for software quality positions, so you can focus applications on employers already prepared to sponsor.
Confirm the job description matches PERM minimum requirements
PERM regulations require the employer to hire any qualified U.S. worker meeting the minimum job requirements. If your employer writes overly specific requirements to match only your credentials, DOL can deny the application, flag any unusual job requirements early.
Understand priority dates before accepting a sponsorship offer
For EB-3 filers from high-demand countries like India or China, priority date backlogs can stretch years beyond I-140 approval. Review the monthly Visa Bulletin with USCIS before finalizing an offer to understand your realistic permanent residency timeline.
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Find QA Engineer JobsQA Engineer Green Card Sponsorship: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a QA Engineer role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most QA Engineer positions qualify under EB-3 as skilled worker roles requiring at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field. If the role requires an advanced degree or you have substantial specialized experience, such as leading quality architecture or building enterprise-scale test automation systems, the employer may file under EB-2 instead, which can mean a shorter wait for some nationalities.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for QA Engineers?
H-1B sponsorship grants temporary work authorization for up to six years, requires annual cap registration, and involves a lottery for most applicants. Green card sponsorship via PERM and I-140 has no annual cap at the EB-3 preference level and leads to permanent residency rather than a temporary status. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM labor certification alone can take six to twelve months before the I-140 is even filed.
What does the PERM process look like for a QA Engineer position?
Your employer starts by obtaining a prevailing wage determination from DOL using the OFLC Wage Search tool, then conducts a supervised recruitment campaign, job postings, newspaper ads, and internal notices, to confirm no qualified U.S. worker is available. If recruitment is unsuccessful, DOL reviews the application. After PERM certification, the employer files an I-140 petition with USCIS on your behalf, establishing your priority date for permanent residency.
How do I find QA Engineer jobs that offer green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you filter specifically for companies with a verified PERM and employment-based green card filing history for software quality and testing roles, so you aren't guessing which employers will actually sponsor. Targeting employers who have completed the PERM process before for similar QA titles significantly improves your chances of receiving a sponsorship offer.
Can my QA Engineer job title affect my green card category or timeline?
Job titles influence which O*NET occupation code DOL assigns during PERM, which in turn shapes the prevailing wage tier and the strength of your specialty occupation argument. Titles like 'QA Automation Engineer' or 'Software Quality Architect' can support a higher-level EB-2 filing if the actual duties require an advanced degree, while a generic 'QA Tester' title may be categorized at the EB-3 skilled worker level.
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