This role pays more than
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of similar roles. Most pay
$149,815–$236,716
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versus about
$193k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Apple Inc
Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software
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As the Director, Software Test Engineering & Quality Assurance, you will lead a large, globally distributed quality organization encompassing SDETs, QA managers, and performance specialists across IS&T, Operations, and AppleCare Technologies. You will be responsible for defining and executing a unified enterprise-wide testing strategy to ensure high standards of reliability for internal systems, supply chain tools, and customer support technologies. Your daily work involves modernizing QA infrastructure by replacing manual pipelines with scalable automation frameworks like Selenium, Playwright, Appium, Cypress, Postman, and RestAssured. You will manage quality across diverse technology landscapes including cloud-native SaaS, mobile platforms, legacy architectures, and AI/ML pipelines. By integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and establishing metrics-driven quality gates, you will ensure that critical enterprise applications and infrastructure meet rigorous performance standards before reaching the end users who depend on them.
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Data Acquisition
Root-Cause Analysis
DVT
Reliability Testing
Systems Engineering
Power Systems
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Control Systems
Product Qualification
Design Verification
Regression Testing
Certification Testing
Digital Twins
Hardware Platforms
Electromechanical Systems
Instrumentation
Python
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Test Automation
post silicon validation
Diagnostic Software
Manufacturing Test
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Test Strategies
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Data Center
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