System Quality Manager Vision Pro and Home

Do you have a passion for quality and want to lead a team that shapes cutting edge technologies at Apple Quality is the cornerstones of what makes our products and technologies phenomenal. We are the Home and Vision Product Systems Quality team and we are seeking a technically strong and inspiring leader who would manage a group of diverse-minded systems QA engineers responsible for ensuring our customers receive the high quality they expect in an ecosystem where products just fit together to create an intuitive system experience. You will engage early in development phase to enable and qualify technologies across Apple Products like Vision Pro and the Apple Home ecosystem. Our team tests new products at Apple through both hardware and software development milestones. We partner with engineering teams to deeply understand new technologies and act as a focal point for ensuring Apples high bar for quality throughout the process. Come join our team and see how we contribute tremendously to the improvement of the entire Apple product ecosystem!

As the team manager your responsibility is to guide the efforts focus and priorities of a team of creative engineers to achieve Apples quality goals. You will also mentor and develop the team providing career development guidance and supporting their professional growth and foster an environment of innovation and continuous learning. From a technical standpoint you will provide technical guidance and feedback to engineers developing test strategies and solutions for testing hardware and software features drive technical standards across the team and stay current with emerging technologies and evaluate their potential application to quality testing to keep raising the bar. Operationally you and your team will be responsible for driving quality subjectively and objectively for features that integrate aspects of software hardware and customer centered ecosystem scenario. You and your team would be responsible for driving integrated system testing with an emphasis on hardware-centric software risks and new software features for new products and their accessories. You will manage project timelines resource allocation and deliverables across multiple project initiatives. Using data and your drive for quality youll advocate for fixes and coordinate with engineers across Apple to improve and maintain quality on new and upcoming releases.

Foster a culture of collaboration continuous improvement and technicalexcellence within the teamnLead and grow a team of quality engineers focused on system experience and scenario testing based on technical understanding of hardware and software aspects of the project in alignment with end-customer scenariosnWork closely with development teams to identify and understand key features program risks and shipping criterianPartner with cross-functional teams to evaluate test coverage strategies and validation subjective vs objective tests and work with area experts in team to create automated approach of validation. nChampion automation to increase test coverage and efficiencynLead with AI technologies to build tools optimize workflows and scale your teams impact beyond what manual processes allownDevelop and maintain a sharp understanding of which types of bugs most severely impact the customer experience and drive those them to resolution with appropriate speed and accountabilitynPresent quality readiness performance and path to closure on challenges tocross functional and executive audiences including quality insights that aid executive decisions

Bachelors degree in any engineering field n5 years of experience in consumer electronics hardware/software quality system validation or test engineeringnMinimum of 2 years experience leading technical teams and/or projects with multiple partnersnDriving project quality through product development and testing phases including leadership representation with attention to details data-driven and customer impact approachnStrong verbal and written communication skills collaboration and time management skills and experience developing or mentoring individual contributorsnBasic understanding of machine learning models and AI applications

Experience with agile development methodologies and project management toolsnSystems Quality Assurance or System Test experience preferably on consumer-facing Hardware/Software productsnDirect experience partnering with functional engineering teams with exceptional ability to build relationshipsn