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Software Development Engineer in Test, Retail Engineering

Apple· Apple Information Systems and Technology (IS&T)
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Hyderabadfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Apple IS&T is hiring Software Quality Engineer to design, analyze, and certify applications. The role focuses on testing features, root-cause analysis, and driving customer experience quality across web, API, and mobile applications, with emphasis on automation, CI/CD integration, and collaboration with multi-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • The quality of Apple’s products, including consistent functionality, performance and stability
  • Understanding new and existing feature implementations in order to craft informed, robust testing charters
  • Authoring and reviewing test scenarios, scripts and plans
  • Conduct functional, regression, performance, and security testing using automation tools
  • Identifying and report defects, inclusive of first-level root cause analysis and consistent steps to reproduce
  • Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks, scripts, and test cases for web, API, and mobile applications
  • Collaborate with developers, product managers, and QA teams to define test strategies and acceptance criteria
  • Implement CI/CD pipeline integration to enhance automated testing execution
  • Analyze test results, report defects, and track issues using defect management tools
  • Continuously improve test automation frameworks and enhance testing efficiency
  • Championing quality efforts beyond test execution, including collaborating with test automation engineering teams, product management teams and engineering program teams

Qualifications

  • 8+ years experience in software quality assurance testing
  • 5+ years of strong practical experience in automation with Java and/or Swift or any OO language
  • Experience in testing API/Web Service, Web apps or Mac/iOS/iPadOS native applicationsS
  • Strong hands-on experience on Core Java, Karate, RestAssured, Playwright/Selenium, Appium/XCUI or similar frameworks
  • Hands on experience in automation framework architecture, design and development
  • Expertise in QE processes, tools and metrics
  • Experience in Maven/Gradle and Git repositories is required
  • Experience of working in Agile development environment with high quality product
  • Solid understanding of software build tools, CI/CD integrations, deployment process and code quality checking tools
  • Experience in testing microservices and cloud-based applications
  • Understands log scanning to identify errors and root cause, with strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills
  • Hands on experience with Load, Resiliency & Performance testing. Exposure to Jmeter/Gatling/Locust performance testing framework
  • Experience with Testing of AI/ML applications, Security and Accessibility testing is good to have
  • Experience in cloud technologies such as AWS/GCP and containerisation technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes is good to have
  • Hands-on experience leveraging AI agents, MCP servers, and LLM-driven developer tools to accelerate test automation and engineering workflows at scale
  • Hands-on experience and working knowledge of building AI-related systems — such as MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, AI agents, agentic workflows, or LLM-powered tools/integrations — for real engineering use cases

Skills

Required:Automation testingJavaSwiftTest frameworks

Benefits

  • Accessibility and inclusive workplace culture emphasized; Apple benefits and workplace accessibility resources referenced
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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