Apple Platform interview questions

Three of the questions

1. Walk me through how you'd design a test automation platform that lets developers write end-to-end functional tests against the virtual networking layer of a private cloud - things like VPCs, peering, transit gateways, service meshes, NATs, firewalls. How would you abstract these so test authors don't need to know the underlying cloud plumbing?
   Technical depth · from the posting: “design and build a test automation platform that enables developers to write end to end functional tests for the virtual networking layer of Apple's private cloud platforms”
2. Your test automation framework for the virtual networking layer starts reporting intermittent failures in peering connectivity tests, but you suspect it might be the test infrastructure itself rather than an actual regression. How do you investigate?
   Scenarios & troubleshooting · from the posting: “Solid understanding of cloud-native networking components: VPCs, peering, transit gateways, service meshes, NATs, firewalls, etc.”
3. The posting says this role is about 'designing and building a test automation platform that enables developers to write end to end functional tests.' Tell me about a time when you had to think about the developer experience when building a tool—what did you do differently because of that focus?
   Behavioural · from the posting: “Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate test strategy, designs, and results to both technical and non-technical audiences”