Engineering Manager, Quality Engineering

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Cupertino, CA
Salary
$237,600–$356,400 / yr
Posted
76 days ago
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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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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Quality Engineering

The Engineering Manager, Quality Engineering — MapKit leads a team of quality engineers within the MapKit Quality Engineering team. This role involves overseeing the scaling of automation testing for the MapKit SDK across iOS, MacOS, WatchOS, Android, and JS platforms. Key responsibilities include defining test strategies for public APIs and SDKs, developing automation frameworks, managing bug triage, and leading release sign-off decisions. The manager partners with cross-functional teams to ensure testability is built into the feature lifecycle from early design. Required technical skills include experience with XCTest, Espresso, UI Automator, Appium, and JavaScript/web test frameworks, alongside CI/CD pipelines, Gradle, and Git. The role specifically addresses the challenge of delivering reliable, high-quality developer experiences for complex, multi-platform mapping SDKs and APIs.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in California?

Median $277500 from 85 postings across 25 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Manage a team of Quality Engineers across multiple timezones covering MapKit SDKs for Native, Android, and JS platforms.
  • Define and drive the overall test strategy for public SDKs and APIs, including coverage, automation frameworks, and CI/CD.
  • Guide the design and development of automation frameworks to validate SDKs and sample applications across iOS, Android, and Web.
  • Partner with Engineering and Product Management to review early designs and ensure testability is built into new features.
  • Lead bug triage, root-cause analysis, and go/no-go release decisions for all MapKit deliverables.
  • Oversee the aggregation and analysis of test results to identify quality risks and trends.
  • Recruit, mentor, and develop quality engineers to improve their technical and leadership skills.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of quality/test engineering experience, including at least two years in a lead or management role.
  • Proven track record of driving test strategy and delivering comprehensive test coverage for mission-critical SDKs, APIs, and applications.
  • Hands-on experience with SDK/API testing and automation frameworks like XCTest, Espresso, UI Automator, Appium, or JavaScript/web frameworks.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, build systems like Gradle, Git, and RESTful API/backend integration testing.
  • Strong leadership and interpersonal skills to guide teams through ambiguous and complex technical challenges.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to explain complex problems clearly and succinctly.
  • Experience testing or designing SDKs/APIs used by external teams or third-party developers, including Android and/or iOS SDKs (preferred).
  • Practical experience with mobile and web technologies such as Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin/Java, HTML/CSS/JavaScript/TypeScript (preferred).

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