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. 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. 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

Requirements

Must-haves

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.
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

Nice-to-haves

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Keywords to mirror

swift

Platform: apple
Effort: medium