SDET - Apple Pay Quality Engineer
Summary
Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to
phenomenal work! Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple experience we
deliver is the result of us making each otherʼs ideas stronger. That happens because every one
of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world,
changing lives for the better. Itʼs the diversity of our people and their thinking that encourages
the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the
best work of our lives. Here, youʼll do more than join something — youʼll add something!
Description
As a member of the Apple Pay 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 Apple Pay and Wallet products all the way to production. The automation code you write will be critical to ensuring our products in China meet the uncompromising high bar for security, performance, and reliability that our customers expect. From everyday seamless experiences to integrating with diverse local ecosystems, features you work on will be used by millions of people across the country. You will work cross-functionally with global development, product, and project management teams to deliver on aggressive timelines and ship features that surprise and delight our customers. Come join our team and help us build the future of Apple Pay!
Responsibilities
- Architect automation frameworks, creating and maintaining test cases and reporting test results
- Work closely with developers to align on feature design, test plans and automation development for CI/CD
- Prioritize, schedule, and communicate the status of your work effectively
- Dive deep to resolve highly technical issues in complex systems
- Collaborate with developers to “shift left” and catch bugs sooner
- Build, monitor, and enhance CI/CD pipelines
- Work with cross-functional teams to identify testing requirements and maintain test development roadmaps.
- Mentor team members and provide technical leadership
- Leverage AI to streamline and optimize your QA workflows
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
- Strong communication skills in both English and Mandarin, with the ability to collaborate effectively with global teams
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