Release Quality Manager - Mail & Messages

Release Quality Manager - Mail & Messages

Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. The Internet Technologies QE & Ops team is seeking an experienced and passionate software quality manager. Our teams design and engineers the communication cornerstones of iOS, macOS, watchOS and visionOS for: FaceTime, Mail, Messages, Contacts and Phone applications. We're looking for critical thinkers to play a key role qualifying Apple's software releases and ensuring a high-quality customer experience. We are in need of a leader who is comfortable working in an exciting environment with rapidly changing priorities, and someone creative and inspired to invent new ways to help build better products.

Description

You will be leading a team of highly skilled software engineers on supporting the qualification of Mail and Messages app. Your team will be planning, crafting, maintaining and executing test cases. You will work closely with other team members to develop requirements, identify appropriate testing implementations processes, and methodologies. Your vision, analytical and critical thinking skills will be needed to identify enhancements and instruments needed to increase the teams efficiency and productivity. Excellent communication skills are a requirement due to the high level of interaction with engineering teams, management and other organizations within Apple. You will need to be highly technical, organized, creative, motivated, and passionate about achieving results. The manager on this team is expected to be hands-on with testing to provide direct technical guidance to team members.

Minimum Qualifications

• Manual and automation planning, test writing, execution, and triage for projects on multiple platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve results through people and across an organization, forming relationships, collaborating with and influencing cross-functional teams.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and influence skills.
• Able to deep dive into technical areas when needed but also ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Experience developing in Python, Java, Swift or C/C++ or Objective-C, familiar with databases, SQL, and scripting languages.
• Working experience utilizing Continuous Integration concepts and streamlined delivery of code.
• Proven track record demonstrating the ability to fulfill project deliverables on time.
• Strong software engineering and development life cycle knowledge.
• Use of quality metrics to drive team goals.

Preferred Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge and experience in one or more of the following technologies: Python, Swift, Objective C, Splunk.
• 1-2 years experience leading projects or managing a quality testing team including planning and managing cross functional tentpoles and automation.

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.