Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Do you like collaborating across teams to solve complex problems?

Do you enjoy solving large-scale systems problems?

Join our Team!

Akamai transforms how organizations safeguard data centers and clouds against advanced threats. Our team includes highly skilled cybersecurity data engineers. We continually seek individuals who contribute fresh ideas and enhance our capabilities. The SSE QA team ensures thorough testing of innovative technologies and systems. We prioritize customers, aiming to protect their business operations and data from evolving threats.

Partner with the best

As a SDET, you will be part of a scrum team. Working to support high quality practices, plan and build functional, integration, system and acceptance tests, both manual and automated. You'll be a key part of the team responsible for building a world class SSE solution.

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

• Executing the complete QA process: collecting specifications, creating test plans, automating tests with PyTest, and integrating into CICD pipelines.
• Creating and applying new approaches and concepts, including AI, to improve the productivity and efficiency of testing practices.
• Designing testing tools, which include developing scripts to enhance regression testing.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a solid QA testing experience
• Have an advanced knowledge of scripting languages including Python, shell script, SQL, and REST API
• Have advanced knowledge of Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, ArgoWF, ArgoCD, Clickhouse, S3, Kafka, Terraform, Kibana, and Grafana
• Demonstrate experience in testing of BigData Backend Distributed systems
• Have experience working with Cloud Platform(s) AWS, GCP, Azure
• Have experience working with AI tools such as Clude-code, Co-Pilot
• Have a good understanding on networking protocols and technologies (especially HTTP, HTTPS, DNS)

About us

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.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

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.