Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Join a truly global team working on cutting-edge security and platform technologies. Our Bot and Agent Control platform protects some of the world's largest digital properties from automated threats and malicious activity. As part of this team, you will help ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of systems operating at massive global scale.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, collaborate with teams to support quality engineering practices. Design and implement test strategies, create automated frameworks, and validate distributed systems operating on Akamai's global infrastructure. Work closely with developers, QA, release engineers, architects, and program managers to ensure services are tested thoroughly and delivered reliably.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be responsible for:

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.

To be successful in this role you will:

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

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day. Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone. Our focus is simple: Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance. Security : Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data. Content Delivery : Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch. AI : Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform. At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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