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SDET Manager, Mail & Messages Automated Testing Frameworks

Apple· Software and Services
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San Diego, CAFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Lead the engineers who build and optimize automated testing frameworks for Mail and Messages across Apple platforms, drive testability upstream, and grow a diverse team while shaping the SDET charter for testing communication software at Apple.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a diverse group of engineers to improve the testability and test coverage of the Mail and Messages applications across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS.
  • Own the design, build-out, and ongoing optimization of the automated testing frameworks that power Mail and Messages quality — the heart of your team's charter.
  • Drive testability upstream by partnering with product engineering to build test affordances and APIs directly into the apps, enabling us to create and control complex app state on demand.
  • Shepherd the full test lifecycle: authoring high-value automated tests, running them at scale, and triaging results to identify regressions early.
  • Defend pass rates and reliability across a distributed, multi-device system, converting nondeterministic failures into signal the organization can trust.
  • Partner with the Ops team on test infrastructure and CI, and with the release quality and product quality teams for Mail and Messages.
  • Invent new strategies and hooks for testing complex, popular, real-time communication apps, and expand coverage to defend their quality and reliability.
  • Cultivate a quality culture where feedback is welcomed and given openly, and where engineers are supported in reaching their goals.

Qualifications

  • 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

Skills

Required:XCTestXCUITestSwift

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition.
  • Eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.
  • Apple shareholder programs through discretionary employee stock programs and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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