SDET - Wallet Identity Quality Engineer

The Apple Wallet Identity QE Team is looking for an experienced software engineer that is excited about the future of digital identities and the impact it can have on the world. Digital identities in Apple Wallet are used by millions of people all over the world, from driver's licenses in California to the My Number Card in Japan. We are looking for an experienced SDET to help us shape the future of how digital identities are used.

Description

As a member of the Apple Wallet Identity Quality Team, you'll establish, implement, and continuously refine the formal QA processes to ensure that our group adheres to industry-accepted best practices. Additionally, you'll integrate the testing infrastructure with our continuous integration and continuous deployment systems to ensure that all the tools and services we develop undergo thorough testing and meet our quality standards. You will be part of a team that is responsible for driving new digital identity features from conception all the way to production. You will be architecting and contributing to our server and client automation stack. The automation code you write will be critical to ensuring our digital identity products are meeting the high bar our customers expect. Features you work on will be used by millions of people all over the world. You will work cross-functionally with the development, product, and project management teams to deliver on aggressive timelines and ship identity features that surprise and delight our customers. Come join our team and help us build the future of digital identities!

Responsibilities:

Architect automation frameworks - Server and Client

Work closely with developers to align on feature design, test plans and automation development for CI/CD

Be a proponent for utilizing GenAI to assist with the above

Provide go/no-go decisions to the executive team when releasing new features

Deconstruct complicated features into comprehensive test plans that can be incorporated into our automation pipelines

Collaborate with developers to "shift left" and catch bugs sooner

Build, monitor, and enhance CI/CD pipelines

Collaborate cross-functionally with technical and non-technical experts across Apple

Mentor team members and provide technical leadership

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of operating systems and networks

Experience with AI-assisted development tools

Experience with contract testing tools (Pact, Spring Cloud Contract, or similar)

Experience with canary and blue-green deploys

Experience with service virtualization (WireMock, Mountebank, Hoverfly, or similar)

Experience with Kubernetes, AWS a bonus

Proficient in Java or Kotlin

Proficient in understanding code to look into client side of the automation stack - Swift preferred

Experience managing the build & release process for iOS/MacOS projects is a bonus

Enthusiastic about Apple

Team player, able to disagree and find paths forward

Passionate about the customer experience

Able to cut through ambiguity and deliver results on time

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of experience with object-oriented programming

BS/MS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Excellent knowledge of the software development lifecycle, testing methodology, and testing tools

Experience in developing test plans, assessing risk, filing appropriate defects, and providing relevant data for test reporting

Able to work independently, raise issues, and take corrective action

Experience developing and maintaining automation systems that scale

Experience testing applications built for mobile devices

Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

Experience validating microservices (unit, component, contract, integration tests, etc)

Passionate about clean code and OO design patterns

Works well with tight timelines and under pressure

Ability to work onsite daily at our Austin, TX office