AIML - Software QE Manager

Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish!

The AIML Program Office is seeking an experienced and passionate Software Quality Manager with focus on visual and audio perception technologies. We're looking for critical problem solvers who would like to play a key role qualifying critical software and the frameworks that support it during all stages of software development. We practice nimble, fast-paced development that relies heavily on a tight relationship between Engineering, Project Management, and QA.

Key Qualifications:

• 6+ years of Professional Experience as a Software Engineer or Software Quality Engineer.
• 2+ years of Management Experience.
• Proven success building and leading an inclusive team-based culture that strives towards best practices, measurable outcomes, and operational excellence.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills for extensive interactions with engineering, management, and other teams within Apple.
• Accountable for scoping and development of comprehensive feature test plans.
• Representing the team in technical and project meetings while evangelizing our values.
• Partnering with engineering managers to ensure features are designed for testability.
• Superb analytical and problem solving skills, and a successful history delivering on objectives.
• Experience with Data Analysis and Visualization Tools such as Tableau.
• Proficiency with iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS or similar operating systems.

Description

As a Software Quality Manager on our team, you will be leading a team of highly skilled engineers, and collaborating heavily with QA teams across Apple to understand their quality plans for existing and new features. Your team is in charge of identifying appropriate testing implementations, processes, and methodologies, and for messaging overall program quality to leadership at key milestones.

As the owner and driver of key quality metrics for functional and application areas, you will collaborate with other teams to drive qualification efforts, process results, draw meaningful conclusions and present impactful data to our leaders and cross functional teams at a regular cadence.

Your vision, analytical, and critical thinking skills will be needed to identify enhancements and tooling needed to ensure the user experience across the system meets the Apple Quality bar.

Education & Experience

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience, with 6+ years of experience in relevant fields of engineering development, quality assurance or project management, and minimum 2 years of experience as a Quality Manager.