Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

About this role

Would revolutionizing the cloud computing space excite you?

Are you passionate about delivering the core platform that enables everything-as-a-service for your fellow developers?

Join our Compute Team!

Akamai's Cloud Technology Group's Compute division, formerly Linode, and now Akamai Cloud, consists of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all. We design, develop, test and maintain products that run on our IaaS platform.

Shape the future of our Cloud Networking Platform!

You will be part of a team responsible for designing and developing tests, contributing to testing frameworks, and managing test execution pipelines for our portfolio of products, which are designed to manage IP Addresses across the Akamai Cloud. The team focuses on test automation and automated workflows, with an emphasis on integrating testing into CI/CD release pipelines.

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

• Contributing towards building the roadmap for enterprise IP addressing and connectivity features.
• Validating and testing cloud-native technologies and architectures, including monitoring, troubleshooting and improving test execution pipelines.
• Participating in the definition and adoption of best practices, knowledge sharing.
• Collaborating in an Agile environment to ensure high product quality.
• Working in an environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in developing test automation using any widely accepted framework with a focus on backend and REST API testing
• Be familiar with Python, or willing to learn Python
• Demonstrate solid analytical thinking, alongside solid de...