Software Development Engineer in Test; SDET Enterprise Technology Services

Position: Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) — Enterprise Technology Services
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Team:
Software and Services

Location:

Austin Weekly

Hours:

40

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Summary Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.

Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here.

The IS&T Enterprise Business Application group is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with a proven track record of sustaining high-quality enterprise software solutions. Our group owns Apple's enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) transformation initiative — delivering a next-generation Product Information Management (PIM) platform that drives Apple's product innovation across hardware, software, and services lines of  this position, you will work closely with key business stakeholders to build an enterprise PIM platform that enables product innovation and collaboration across Apple's product value chain.

We are looking for someone with extensive experience building and delivering large-scale, on-premise and cloud-based enterprise solutions — especially PLM. This individual should have sound technical and functional knowledge of PLM domains and modern test frameworks. A great candidate will create a collaborative work environment that fosters autonomy, transparency, innovation, and learning.

Description This hands-on role demands the best and brightest; the ideal candidate will be well rounded and offer a diverse set of skills that aligns with the key qualifications listed below. This is a highly cross-functional role — we interact closely with technical and business teams all across Apple and with third-party partners.

Collaboration & Engineering Partnership Partner with engineering, infrastructure, site reliability, program management, and partner technical and business teams to formulate engineering specifications and testable acceptance criteria.

Participate in design and architecture reviews as the quality voice — surface testability gaps, missing observability, and risky integration points before a line of code is written.

Act as the quality advocate in agile ceremonies: refine stories into verifiable behaviors, estimate test effort, and hold the team's definition of done.

Test Strategy, Design & Automation Craft test plans, test cases, and the associated automation for complex full-stack PLM workflows; set standards, estimate effort, and coordinate execution across functional, integration, regression, and release cycles.

Own the automation architecture in Type Script: build and maintain a strictly typed, reusable, data-driven UI and API test framework on Playwright Test — custom fixtures, page- and service-object layering, shared typed clients, parallel sharded execution, and no flaky tests tolerated.

Treat test code as production code: strict Type Script configuration, lint and format gates, typed API contracts generated from schema rather than hand-written, and peer-reviewed pull requests.

Apply the test pyramid deliberately — push coverage down to unit and service layers, and reserve end-to-end UI suites for genuine business-critical journeys.

Build service-virtualization and mocking capability (Playwright network interception and Wire Mock stubs) so downstream integrations can be tested without waiting on partner environments.

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