SDET Manager: Frameworks & Testability Architect

Apple, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 338,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Relocation assistance

Education reimbursement

Medical & dental coverage

Job summary

Apple, Inc. in San Diego is seeking a SDET Manager to lead the Mail & Messages automated testing frameworks across iOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS. You will stay hands-on, set technical direction, and grow a diverse team dedicated to reliable, private, scalable testing.

You will own testability, build APIs into apps, drive the full testing lifecycle, and partner across product engineering and Ops to raise quality standards company-wide.

Qualifications

• Experience interviewing candidates and raising the bar on hiring.
• Strong software engineering skills with a focus on test engineering.
• Clear, succinct communication.
• Commitment to an inclusive quality culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a diverse team to improve testability and coverage across Apple platforms.
• Design, build, and optimize automated testing frameworks for Mail and Messages.
• Drive upstream testability by partnering with product engineering to build test APIs.
• Own full test lifecycle from authoring tests to triaging results.
• Defend pass rates and reliability in a distributed multi-device system.
• Collaborate with Ops on test infra and CI and with release/product quality teams.
• Invent strategies for testing complex real-time communication apps.
• Foster a culture where feedback is welcomed and engineers are supported.

Skills

Test engineering

Software engineering

Hiring experience

Communication

Quality culture

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Tools

XCTest

XCUITest

Swift

Job description

Apple, Inc. in San Diego is seeking a SDET Manager to lead the Mail & Messages automated testing frameworks across iOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS. You will stay hands-on, set technical direction, and grow a diverse team dedicated to reliable, private, scalable testing.

You will own testability, build APIs into apps, drive the full testing lifecycle, and partner across product engineering and Ops to raise quality standards company-wide.