Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) - Enterprise Technology Services

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) for its IS&T Enterprise Business Applications group in Austin, TX.

You will build and maintain automated tests for a next-generation PLM platform, collaborating with stakeholders across Apple’s product value chain. You will implement test plans and automation for large-scale on-premise and cloud systems, using TypeScript, Playwright, and API testing tools, while integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in quality assurance or software engineering.
• Experience developing test plans and automation strategies for complex full-stack apps.
• Experience testing and automating enterprise PLM systems.
• Hands-on automation for asynchronous and distributed systems.
• Strong TypeScript programming ability with API testing.
• SQL for test data setup and backend verification.
• Experience integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build and deliver an enterprise PLM platform supporting product innovation.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across hardware, software, and services.
• Sustain high-quality enterprise software through automation and monitoring.

Skills

Test strategies

Full-stack testing

PLM systems

Asynchronous systems

TypeScript

API testing

SQL

CI/CD integration

Tools

Playwright

Postman/Insomnia

SQL tooling

Job description

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) — Enterprise Technology Services

Austin, Texas, United States Software and Services

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 business.In 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in quality assurance or software engineering.
• Proficient in developing test plans and automation strategies for intricate full-stack applications.
• Experience testing and automating enterprise applications such as Siemens Teamcenter or an equivalent PLM system.
• Hands-on experience automating and testing asynchronous and distributed systems.
• Strong programming ability in TypeScript — typed interfaces and generics, async/await, clean code practices, code review, and Git-based workflows. Our automation codebase is TypeScript end to end, with Java used on the services and integrations under test.
• Experience with API and contract testing (REST/SOAP, JSON/XML) using Playwright's API request client, Postman/Insomnia, or equivalent, including JSON Schema validation.
• Working knowledge of SQL for test data setup and backend verification.
• Experience integrating automated test suites into a CI/CD pipeline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Depth in the Playwright Test ecosystem — custom fixtures, projects and sharding, network interception, trace viewer, visual comparison, and component testing.
• Extensive knowledge of back-end development technologies, particularly Java and related frameworks (Spring/Spring Boot, microservices) — enough to read the services under test and debug alongside their developers.
• Proficiency in relational database technologies such as Oracle or Postgres.
• Depth in Siemens Teamcenter — Active Workspace, BMIDE data model, SOA/ITK services, workflows, and Teamcenter Integration Framework (TcIF).
• Experience with PLM data migration and cutover validation — extract, transform, load, and reconciliation at scale.
• Experience with message brokers and streaming platforms (Kafka via kafkajs, JMS/ActiveMQ) and with ETL or data pipeline testing.
• Experience with performance and resilience testing of enterprise workloads.
• Familiarity with test management and defect tracking practices, including requirement-to-test traceability and Allure-based reporting.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and meticulous individual with excellent written and oral English communication skills.

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