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As a Quality Engineering (QE) Manager at Apple, you will have the exciting opportunity to lead a team of engineers within the Emerging Technologies QE team. Your role will involve providing management leadership, technical expertise, and strategic direction to enhance the quality engineering capabilities within the team. By leveraging your skills and experience, you will play a pivotal role in improving quality, accelerating project delivery, and directly impacting the experience of billions of customers. In this position, you will lead a global team focused on various technologies and applications, including highly scalable distributed systems, No-SQL platforms, internal search platforms, customer-facing websites, security systems, machine learning, and more. Your responsibilities will include building, developing, and retaining a talented team of quality engineers while fostering an environment that promotes innovation and success. You will serve as a role model for the team, ensuring tasks are completed efficiently and expectations are exceeded. Your role will require exceptional relationship management and collaboration skills as you work closely with peer teams, management, engineering leadership, developers, project managers, and cross-functional teams to deliver outstanding, scalable solutions. Operating in a fast-paced software development environment, you will continuously enhance automation infrastructure to enable continuous deployment practices. Additionally, you will be responsible for overseeing the quality of product features, ensuring release readiness, identifying improvement opportunities, and implementing innovative automation solutions. To succeed in this role, you must possess a minimum of 10 years of experience in quality roles, with a focus on testing and automating large-scale customer-facing systems. You should have strong hands-on experience in Java or Python, scripting languages, and database technologies. Your expertise should extend to QE automation architecture, methodologies, processes, and tools, including automation frameworks for frontend and backend applications. Proficiency in test suite development for full-stack applications using various tools like TestNG, JMeter, Selenium, SOAPUI, Cucumber, and REST API testing frameworks is essential. Moreover, your technical knowledge should encompass distributed systems, cloud computing, platform as a service, and microservices architecture. Experience with continuous deployment systems, version control tools, and cloud platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, and GCP will be beneficial. Your ability to collaborate effectively with multi-functional teams and influence stakeholders within your area of responsibility is crucial for success in this role. The ideal candidate will hold a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in a related field. Proficiency in CS fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, and software design is preferred. Knowledge of Data Driven Testing, Behavioral Driven Development test frameworks, and security concepts will be advantageous. Familiarity with QE tools in bash, perl, or python, Agile workflow management, and a passion for continuous improvement are also desirable qualities. If you are a dedicated leader with a passion for quality engineering and a drive to deliver exceptional customer experiences, we encourage you to submit your CV for consideration. Join Apple's Emerging Technologies QE team and be part of a dynamic environment where innovation thrives and your contributions make a difference.,
