Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), Wallet Payments & Commerce
Apple
Software Engineering
San Diego, CA, USA
USD 171,600-302,200 / year + Equity
Posted on Feb 11, 2026
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Do you have a passion for building robust automated tests? If so, we invite you to join the Apple Pay Quality Engineering team, responsible for ensuring the highest quality of Apple Pay products that surprise and delight millions of customers. As a Quality Engineer, you'll play a critical role in ensuring the reliability and seamlessness of Apple Pay, a service that is constantly evolving with cutting edge features. This position requires excellent interpersonal skills, strong technical and debugging skills, and a drive to make a difference. To be successful in this role, you should be a seasoned developer with strong programming fundamentals. This includes designing, documenting, and building automated tests at scale.
- Creating and maintaining automated UI test cases and reporting test results.
- Contributing to the design and development of testing tools
- Prioritizing, scheduling, and communicating the status of your work
- Diving deep to resolve highly technical issues in complex systems
- Triaging automation failures and driving them to quick resolution
- Working with cross-functional teams to identify testing requirements and maintaining test development road maps
- Expertise communicating clearly and concisely with ability to tailor communication to a given audience
- Strong organizational skills enabling both independent and team work
- Leveraging AI to streamline and optimize your work
- Experience developing SwiftUI tests using automated testing frameworks and troubleshooting test failures
- Proficiency in Swift and Python languages
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on critical thinking and a testability mindset
- Ability to apply creativity and analytical thinking to all kinds of problems, such as test case design and building robust automation
- BS or MS in Computer science or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of professional experience
- Capacity to define/design/develop/maintain test automation frameworks plus experience with Continuous Integration tools
- Expertise with Software Version Control systems like Git (GitHub/Gitlab)
- Experience with API testing and familiarity with server architecture
- Proficiency with Xcode
- Knowledge of the software development lifecycle and SQA methodologies
- Capability to investigate problems, prioritize accordingly, and propose a resolution
- Demonstrated ability to present technical concepts to diverse audiences
- Good understanding of CI/CD principles and the optimal way to design testing strategy for cloud applications
- Expertise in writing code to automate tests for an iOS / MacOS application
- Familiarity with AI/ML solutions
- Ability to develop and maintain testing tools
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