Apple
Director, Software Test Engineering & Quality Assurance
$260K–$416K
Sunnyvale, California · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 3, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years; includes 7+ years leading large, globally distributed quality or engineering organizations.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
About the job
Leads Apple's global quality organization and enterprise-wide testing strategy across IS&T, Operations, and AppleCare Technologies, modernizing software validation and embedding quality throughout development and release processes.
What you'll do
- Lead and develop a large, globally distributed quality organization across multiple disciplines and functions.
- Set and execute a unified strategy for automation, performance, security, and manual testing across diverse technology environments.
- Modernize QA infrastructure, integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, and track quality KPIs to improve reliability and release outcomes.
What they ask for
- 15+ years of experience in software portfolio management, quality engineering, test strategy, and/or related technical disciplines, including 7+ years leading large, globally distributed quality or engineering organizations.
- Track record of building, scaling, or transforming engineering or testing functions across multiple geographies and technology domains.
- Expertise in testing enterprise applications, cloud-native systems, mobile platforms, legacy architectures, and AI/ML pipelines; demonstrated ability to replace manual testing with scalable automation and API testing methodologies.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
Nice to have
- Experience leading testing across multiple domains and multi-stack environments, including enterprise IT, supply chain, customer support, cloud-native SaaS, mobile, legacy systems, and AI/ML.
- Experience consolidating or establishing large-scale quality organizations or shared services functions.
Pay
$259,900 and $416,200 (base salary range)
Tools
Selenium, Playwright, Appium, Cypress, Postman, RestAssured, CI/CD
AI focus
Establishes testing strategy across AI/ML systems and pipelines.
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