Job Description

Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their best work. Together we craft products and experiences people once couldn't have imagined - and now can't imagine living without. If you're motivated by the idea of making a real impact and joining a team where we pride ourselves in being one of the most diverse and inclusive companies in the world, a career with Apple might be your dream job. We are looking for a forward-thinking Testing Leader who can take our QA function to the next level by driving technology adoption, automation excellence, and innovative testing practices.
Description
The ideal candidate is both a strategic thinker and a technologist-someone who can disrupt the status quo, introduce modern testing approaches, and foster collaboration within the team.
Responsibilities

• Technology Leadership: Evaluate, introduce, and implement modern testing tools, frameworks, and best practices (AI/ML in testing, cloud-based testing, continuous testing).
• Automation Strategy: Define and execute a robust test automation strategy across functional, regression, performance, and security testing.
• Innovation Mindset: Bring a disruptive thought process to problem-solving while ensuring team alignment and adoption.Ability to consider alternative viewpoints and adapt approach when required.
• Team Development: Mentor and upskill the testing team in cutting-edge technologies and methodologies.
• Collaboration: Communication and co-ordination with international teams. Partner with development, product, and DevOps teams to embed quality early in the lifecycle (Shift-Left Testing).
• Quality Metrics: Define measurable KPIs for quality, test effectiveness, automation coverage, and continuous improvement.
• Scalability: Build testing processes and platforms that can scale with product growth and evolving technology needs.
• Delivery : Work closely with internal organizations, project teams and clients to develop project schedules, execute test plans and cases, and deliver high quality products
• Enhance Quality Assurance processes, environments, tools and frameworks
• Champion Apple's dedication to providing extraordinary user experience and drives the team to work towards this shared goal.
• Uphold Apple's ethical and moral standards while working with internal and external partners.
• Form the team on the foundation of excellence, professional growth, inclusivity and respect.

Minimum Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant experience with at least 8 years' experience managing stakeholders and large complex testing programs
• Experience in SAP Testing with good understanding of Supply Chain Processes
• Experience in testing/test management of S/4 Hana Implementations.
• Experience in product quality and uncovering hard to find scenarios and bugs.
• Background in setting up and leading QA teams.
• Experience in QA for highly scalable, distributed and high performance platforms.
• Experience in functional & performance testing.
• Excellent knowledge of QA automation methodologies, processes, and tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering from a premier school
• Minimum 12-15 years of Work experience in a similar role preferred
• Experience in developing test plans, test cases and performing testing
• Familiar with technologies like Worksoft, Tosca, Java, SQL, Scala, Databases, NoSQL, Web Services (Rest & soap).
• Familiar with using tools to measure system and performance metrics.
• Extremely detail oriented, committed to the highest quality of work you're doing
• Experience in presenting executive level briefs for business reviews, forecast delivery schedules and risk mitigations
• Ability to communicate effectively with peers, senior leadership and globally dispersed partners

Skills Required