Senior Quality Engineer – iOS/macOS Automation Leader

Apple, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 312,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Sunnyvale seeks a Sr. Quality Engineer to own strategy and execution across a portfolio of apps and systems deployed to Apple Stores worldwide. You will design and drive automated test coverage while balancing exploratory testing, influencing testability early in design.

You will partner with engineers to implement test hooks, feature flags, and robust instrumentation, ensuring quality is built in from the start and releases meet high standards across native and backend components.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software quality engineering, test automation, or software development.
• Demonstrated leadership defining quality strategy across a full product surface spanning multiple clients, backend services and pipelines.
• Proven experience testing native iOS and macOS applications end-to-end on managed Apple devices (XCUITest/XCTest).
• Proficient in Swift and Python with the ability to build and maintain automation and test harnesses.
• Experience testing asynchronous distributed workflows (e.g., Temporal, Airflow).
• Skilled in root-causing failures across network, client, service, content boundaries.
• Comfortable in trunk-based development with CI coverage and staged rollout.
• Serve as go/no-go decision maker for user-acceptance and production tests.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control (Jenkins, GitHub, Docker/Kubernetes, Ansible).
• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Define a quality strategy across the portfolio — native or web apps and clients, backend services, SDKs and frameworks — and execute consistently against high standards.
• Partner with engineering on testability from the start. Shape feature flag design, test hooks and harnesses, staging fidelity, and instrumentation while a feature is being designed.
• Validate every app version against the content, services and OS release they depend on; catch regressions across permutations.
• Report release-readiness clearly to cross-functional and leadership stakeholders, translating coverage and defect trends into go/no-go or rollback decisions.

Skills

Software QA

Test Automation

Quality Strategy

Swift

Python

CI/CD

Leadership

iOS/macOS Testing

Education

BS in CS / equivalent

Tools

XCUITest

XCTest

GitHub

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Job description

Apple Sunnyvale seeks a Sr. Quality Engineer to own strategy and execution across a portfolio of apps and systems deployed to Apple Stores worldwide. You will design and drive automated test coverage while balancing exploratory testing, influencing testability early in design.

You will partner with engineers to implement test hooks, feature flags, and robust instrumentation, ensuring quality is built in from the start and releases meet high standards across native and backend components.