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Software QE Engineering Manager

Apple· Software and Services
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Sunnyvale, CA$212.6k - $319.8kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Manager of Software Quality (QE) leading a team responsible for validating and ensuring reliability of mission-critical server and data platform technologies for client-facing solutions, with emphasis on quality strategy, automation, release readiness, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Lead teams of quality assurance engineers to design, execute, and evolve comprehensive quality strategies for FileMaker Server and platform technologies.
  • Define test architecture and establish scalable automation frameworks across Server, Client, WebDirect, APIs, and cloud or on-premises deployments.
  • Partner with engineering and product management teams to ensure clear quality requirements, acceptance criteria, and release readiness standards.
  • Drive performance, scalability, failover, backup, and high-availability validation for production-scale environments.
  • Lead root-cause analysis efforts for defects, coordinate cross-functional resolution strategies, and enforce quality standards for security, compliance, and disaster recovery.
  • Manage dependencies, risks, schedules, and tradeoffs proactively to support committed delivery timelines.
  • Coach engineers to think from a customer-impact perspective, fostering a culture of execution excellence and continuous improvement.
  • Design autonomous frameworks and leverage AI-powered tools to generate test suites, measure hallucination rates, and ensure ethical AI deployments.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of experience in software quality assurance, platform validation, or systems testing.
  • 5+ years of leadership experience managing technical QA, QE or platform validation teams supporting enterprise-scale or client-facing systems.
  • Experience validating scalable architectures across Server, Client, WebDirect, APIs, and cloud or on-premises deployments.
  • Experience delivering releases on schedule while maintaining quality standards.
  • Experience with test planning, automation strategies, regression management, and release readiness processes.
  • Experience with performance, scalability, failover, backup, recovery, and resiliency testing.
  • Experience preparing and presenting technical quality risks and release status reports to cross-functional stakeholders.

Skills

Required:Quality assurance leadershipTest architecture and automationRelease readiness and risk managementSecurity, compliance, disaster recovery

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • range of discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation may be available
  • employee stock programs including discretionary RSU awards and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Sep 11, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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