Principal Quality Engineer, Media Services, Apple Services Engineering

Imagine what we could do together. At Apple new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products services and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and theres no telling what we could accomplish!nnThe Apple Services Engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of Apples long-held passion for combining art and technology. We are the people who power the App Store Apple TV Apple Music Apple Podcasts and Apple Books. And we do it on a massive scale meeting Apples high standard for quality and excellence to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 35 languages to more than 150 countries.

We are seeking a Principal Quality Engineer to help drive an evolution of our Quality Engineering organization for Commerce u0026 Growth. This role will partner with leaders across Apple Services Engineering who develop quality engineering systems and tests and help re-imagine how we ship quality products to customers. The team is responsible for qualifying a wide array of diverse systems that operate at a massive scale from server APIs powering our media experiences to user interfaces that deliver the best of our services to customers. AI is here to stay and new opportunities for raising quality while increasing efficiency abound. nnWe are looking for an experienced quality leader with a proven track record of developing strategy building processes and tools and driving adoption across an organization. You should have a history of driving quality through tools systems and automation and possess a strong background in software development. Additionally you are a team player who is eager to collaborate and build partnerships with other quality and engineering organizations.

Define and drive cross-organizational quality strategy and executionnCollaborate with Engineering and Product partners to align on strategic efforts and incorporate them in the overall product lifecyclenDefine instrument and implement metrics to measure success of the strategic effortsnIntegrate AI as a core competency into Quality lifecycle and tooling (e.g. test case generation anomaly detection coverage analysis)nCommunicate progress effectively across the organization to all levels of leadership.

10 years experience in the quality engineering leading large technical organizations through in the practice of QA/QE and track record of improving quality through processes systems and technical leadership and keen architecture to engage in deep technical detail yet move fluidly into big-picture practice of developing technical leaders setting clear strategy direction and goalsnExperience working with distributed teams across cultures geography and value for teamwork collaboration and driving cross-functional alignment. Fluent in influencing without practice of stakeholder to drive clarity in the midst of communication skills: ability to convey complicated concepts concisely and tailor messaging to different degree in a quantitative field such as computer science engineering or mathematics.

Experience testing server-side planning and leading software release cycles.