Senior Software Development Engineer in Test
Akamai · Posted Sep 29
Cloud computing, cybersecurity, and content delivery network services
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About the role
Akamai's Bot & Agent Control platform protects some of the world's largest digital properties from automated threats and malicious activity, and the team works on cutting-edge security and platform technologies operating at massive global scale. The engineering team focuses on ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of distributed systems running on Akamai's global Cloud and Edge infrastructure. As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, the role designs and implements test strategies, builds and maintains automated test frameworks and CI/CD pipelines, and validates distributed services in collaboration with developers, QA, architects, release engineers, and program managers.
What you will do
- Participating in functional and product design reviews, incorporating feedback into comprehensive test plans and test cases
- Designing, developing, and maintaining automated test frameworks and test suites for functionality, integration, load, and performance
- Creating and executing test strategies for new features and platform capabilities
- Collaborating with developers, QA engineers, architects, release engineers, and program managers to ensure high-quality software delivery
- Building and improving automation infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, while developing and maintaining automated API, UI, and system-level tests.
- Identifying test coverage gaps, improving service reliability and scalability, investigating defects, debugging issues, and enhancing quality engineering practices and tools.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Demonstrate 5+ of experience in software quality engineering or SDET roles with education in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or related fields.
- Demonstrate expertise in programming using Java and/or Python, with a solid understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms.
- Possess extensive experience in building test automation frameworks, with hands-on expertise in Cypress, Selenium WebDriver, or other similar UI automation tools.
- Gain experience with cross-browser testing platforms like BrowserStack, testing RESTful APIs, and web services using manual and automated methods.
- Understand test design methodologies, automation best practices, and CI/CD integration with SQL databases, debugging and troubleshooting skills
- Be familiar with Internet technologies and protocols, including HTTP/HTTPS, web services, proxies, and web servers
Benefits and support
- FlexBase program allowing employees to work from home, in an office, or a combination of both
About Akamai
Akamai is a global cloud computing, cybersecurity, and content delivery network company that powers and protects digital experiences online. Its distributed edge platform optimizes web and application performance while providing robust enterprise security solutions. The company serves major global enterprises across various industries, enabling scalable cloud infrastructure and advanced threat mitigation.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 11000+ employees
- Founded
- 1998
- Location
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $61.5M raised
- 2023-08-16Post Ipo Debt
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
EVP & Chief Financial Officer
EVP & Chief Technology Officer
Chief Operating Officer & GM, Cloud Technology Group
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