Software Development Engineer - Test Manager

Summary

Posted: Jan 21, 2025

Role Number:200585983

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new insights have a way of becoming phenomenal platforms, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish! The Emerging Technologies QE team is looking for hands on talented leader in software quality engineering to take our capabilities in automation, tools, and processes to the next level. This position will provide management leadership, technical leadership, and strategic direction to the quality engineering team. In this role, you will have an opportunity to improve quality and accelerate the delivery of critical quality work and be involved in all phases and layers of the application having a direct impact on the experience of billions of customers!

Description

As a QE manager, you will build and lead a team of engineers as a part of a global horizontal Quality Engineering group focused on a breadth of technologies and applications including very highly scalable distributed applications, No-SQL platforms, internal search platforms, end customer facing websites and services, critical security systems, machine learning and anomaly detection systems, software-load balancing, among others. Build, develop, innovate, and retain a hard-working team of quality engineers and build an environment where they can thrive and succeed. Act as a role model for your team when it comes to getting things done and exceeding expectations. Your skills in relationship management and partnership should be outstanding as this role requires to quickly understand and respond to peer teams’ needs and work with management and engineering leadership, developers, quality engineers, project managers, and multi-functional teams who take ownership in building outstanding scalable solutions. You will work in a fast-paced software development environment and continuously enhance our automation infrastructure to move towards continuous deployment where every code change is thoroughly tested and considered ready to be deployed. You will be the quality DRI on product features. To be successful, you will need to supervise and communicate release readiness, identify any gaps, and consistently assess new and innovative ways to improve automation solutions. While the primary role is leading/managing employees, you should have deep technical knowledge of distributed systems and cloud computing, platform as a service, and microservices architecture. We expect that you have strong experience working with short release cycles, do not hesitate to code, and actively participate in design and code reviews.

Minimum Qualifications

• 9+ years in Quality roles testing and automating large scale customer-facing systems with sophisticated distributed integrations
• 3+ years handling quality engineers responsible for qualifying features through the complete software development life cycle
• Strong hands-on engineering experience with Java or Python and scripting languages.
• Experience with databases technologies including relational and noSQL and SQL.
• Ability to build, drive and support automation test strategy. Excellent knowledge of QE automation architecture, methodologies, processes, and tools.
• Hands on experience in QE automation frameworks for both frontend and backend applications.
• Passion for building test suites for complex full stack applications with TestNG, JMeter, Selenium, SOAPUI, Cucumber, REST API testing framework which are sustainable on a long run
• Skilled in navigating and fixing Unix/Linux environments
• Expertise with continuous deployment systems using Maven, GIT, Spinnaker, and Jenkins; define branching, tagging, and code merging strategies
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms such as AWS, and GCP
• Ability to collaborate and influence multi-functional teams within your area of responsibility.
• Collaborate with multi-functional and globally distributed teams
• Education: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience or higher

Preferred Qualifications

• Solid foundation in CS fundamentals with proficiencies in data structures, algorithms and software design preferred.
• Knowledge of Data Driven Testing or Behavioral Driven Development test frameworks
• Understanding of security concepts such as PKI, X.509, ASN.1, key exchange protocols, and authentication protocols
• Good understanding of Cryptographic algorithms, Data security, SSL, certificates etc
• Capable of reading/writing QE tools in bash/perl/python
• Familiar with Agile workflow management