Apple

SDET Manager, Mail & Messages Automated Testing Frameworks

Apple • $135K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in software engineering with a focus on test engineering.
  • Proven track record in hiring and interviewing candidates with a focus on elevating team quality.
  • Strong communication skills to mediate discussions and convey ideas clearly.
  • Commitment to fostering an inclusive culture where diverse ideas are valued.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • Experience with XCTest, XCUITest, and Swift is preferred.
  • Background in testing complex multi-device distributed systems.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team dedicated to the testability and reliability of Mail and Messages.
  • Build and optimize automated testing frameworks for communication applications.
  • Collaborate with product engineers to integrate testing capabilities into apps.
  • Develop and execute high-value automated tests at scale to ensure software quality.
  • Support a culture that emphasizes diverse feedback and continuous improvement.
  • Analyze test results and identify regression issues before affecting customers.
  • Partner with operational teams to enhance test infrastructure and CI processes.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to define the testing culture and processes for major communication apps.
  • Hands-on leadership role involved in technical decision-making.
  • Collaborative environment working with product engineering and quality teams.
  • Support for career development and team diversity.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and innovative testing methodologies.
Full Job Description
As the SDET Manager for Mail & Messages Automated Testing Frameworks, you will lead a team of engineers dedicated to the testability, coverage, and reliability of two of the most important communication apps in the world, across every Apple platform. As an Apple manager you will stay hands-on - setting technical direction, going deep with your team on hard problems, and helping shape a discipline that is still being built. You will have real room to define the charter for how we test communication software at Apple.

Your team's core is building and continuously optimizing the automated testing frameworks that power Mail and Messages - but the mandate is broader than framework code. You will drive testability upstream, partnering with product engineering to design test affordances and APIs directly into the apps (for example, in-product tooling that lets us forge and drive complex application state on demand) so that quality becomes something the products make easy to prove. You will shepherd the full lifecycle - authoring high-value automated tests, running them at scale, and triaging the results to catch regressions before customers ever feel them. Much of what makes this exciting is the distributed, multi-device nature of Mail and Messages: state that lives across devices, servers, and accounts, and the deep, genuinely novel challenge of testing it reliably.

You will defend pass rates and reliability as first-class outcomes, turning flaky, hard-to-reproduce failures into trustworthy signal for the whole organization. You will partner with our Ops team on test infrastructure and CI, and with the product engineering, release quality, and product quality teams for Mail and Messages to raise the bar together. Above all, you will grow a diverse group of engineers and cultivate a quality culture - one where automation prevents bugs, feedback flows in every direction, and each person is supported toward their goals.

Minimum Qualifications

You care about supporting others and growing their careers.

You have experience interviewing candidates and a track record of raising the bar on hiring.

You have strong software engineering skills with a focus on test engineering, and can act as an arbitrator for tough technical debates.

You communicate - and mediate communication - clearly, succinctly, and effectively.

You prioritize an inclusive quality culture where the best idea wins, no matter who it comes from.

You have a BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Extensive experience with XCTest, XCUITest, and Swift.

You have worked across different design paradigms for automated testing frameworks and understand their trade-offs.

You have experience testing complex, distributed, multi-device systems.

You have driven a team - or led as a senior individual contributor - toward a successful, durable testing philosophy.

You have experience building test affordances or APIs into a product to make it more testable.

You are comfortable analyzing test results and quality signals at scale

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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