About

• The Platform Apps and Technologies organization delivers critical tools and
• services to the internal Apple engineering community that enable code
• contributions to all our software products. We are building a new quality
• organization from the ground up, with a charter of automating and evaluating our
• portfolio of internal experiences, and searching for a leader to establish and
• manage this team long-term. This role goes beyond traditional QA management —
• you’ll need to be a hands-on technical leader who contributes code directly,
• drives a strong technical agenda and executes a quality-first strategy in close
• partnership with product engineering and design. You’ll use metrics and
• instrumentation to understand the experience of customers. And you’ll directly
• engage with stakeholders to further validate our products: the mission here is
• not just preventing defects, it’s about improving the tools that our internal
• engineers depend on day-to-day and understanding their biggest pain points. This
• role is crucial to how we build trust in our tools and services. You’ll shape
• not only the systems that validate quality, but the culture that sustains it.

• DESCRIPTION

• * Establishing a team: recruit and hire a new team in Vancouver, bringing
• together a strong and diverse group of internal and external candidates. Once
• established, foster a culture of continuous feedback, personal development
• mentorship and career growth. * Driving our overall quality direction: defining
• and owning strategy, establishing standards and testing methodologies, release

criteria and customer signal. * Being hands-on with technical contribution

• design, implement and maintain automated testing systems that can represent
• end-to-end experience, overall reliability and performance of our products. *
• Taking a data-driven and scientific approach: relying on meaningful quality
• metrics (e.g., defect trends, coverage, flakiness, reliability signals,
• customer-impacting issues), using data and experimentation to identify root
• causes and validate improvements, continuously evaluating and evolving our tools
• processes and practices. * Upholding a high bar: remaining accountable for
• shipping high-quality features and capabilities to our customers, involving
• stakeholders early and representing customer needs, and staying connected to the
• internal engineering community to understand the real world problems customers
• face.

• MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 3–5 years of experience as a quality engineer or equivalent role Working
• experience with continuous integration systems and developer productivity tools
• Ability to write tests in languages like Python, Swift, Objective-C, or Java
• Experience writing automated tests for both client applications and backend
• services Ability to both understand and communicate concepts related to large,
• complex systems Working knowledge using metrics to measure software quality BS
• in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• In-depth knowledge of Apple developer ecosystem including Xcode, Swift, XCTest,
• and swift-testing 1–2 years of experience leading quality engineering projects
• as a manager or a tech lead Experience testing large distributed systems