Health is a diverse, hardworking, and passionate team striving to help people live healthier lives while keeping their data safe, private, and secure. We create amazing applications that enrich peoples’ lives in a tangible way, and provide APIs and SDKs to 3rd party developers so that their devices and applications can seamlessly integrate into Apple’s ecosystem.
We are looking for a Software QA Manager to help ensure our Health experience is rock-solid and customer-focused. We're looking for an empathetic people leader who thinks critically and would like to play a key role in the development and shipping of critical software and the frameworks that support it during all stages of software development. This team expects and encourage engineering excellence and we practice nimble, fast-paced development that relies heavily on a tight relationship between Development, Project Management, and QA.
Description
As a key leader on the team, you’ll have the opportunity to have a direct hand in crafting the next advancements in Apple’s health software ecosystem. We work on the Health app—a platform for Health and Fitness efforts across Apple—as well as the Research App and related features and experiences that broaden the definition of what our platform can do. You will work with experienced engineers, designers, and medical experts to architect features that delight users as well as form a solid technical foundation for future development. In this position, you will need to be self-directed, creative, and comfortable with change and ambiguity. Excellent engineering, collaboration, and leadership skills are all essential.
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum of five years of experience working in Software Quality Assurance required
Minimum of two years recent experience working as a Software Quality Assurance lead or manager required
Track record demonstrating the ability to build a diverse and strong team – attracting, hiring, retaining, motivating the best talent
Ability to understand and break down large features into manageable pieces
Comfort driving through various constraints and ambiguity on difficult problems to make sound decisions
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to facilitate close interaction with development teams, management, and other organizations within Apple
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent work experience
Preferred Qualifications
Demonstrated passion for developing great user experiences
Highly organized, someone who thrives working in a fast-paced environment, and loves learning new technologies
Track record of testing and shipping high quality apps or frameworks
Experience leading and developing a team in a cross-functional environment
A passion for health and health-related technology
Responsibilities
Leading, mentoring, and hiring independent, highly effective quality engineers
Overseeing development of comprehensive feature test plans
Accurately scoping the effort and work items required to complete large feature projects
Assisting direct reports in proper scoping and prioritization of testing deliverables.
Representing the team in technical and project meetings while evangelizing our values
Partnering with engineering managers to ensure features are designed for testability
Shipping new health-related features across Apple platforms that meet or exceed our high standards for quality
Forging collaborative relationships with a wide variety of cross-functional teams to prototype ideas, develop plans, and make product and design decisions
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