Would shaping the development of web services and applications excite you?

Would you like to create a seamless experience for customers?

Join our Compute Web Team

The Compute Team aims to simplify, scale, and make computing accessible and affordable. It delivers infrastructure enabling developers to create advanced applications. The team designs and develops core interfaces, applications, APIs, and services. It ensures customers and stakeholders can build software efficiently using top-tier technologies, fostering innovation and seamless experiences for all users.

Partner with the best

As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you will design, develop, and maintain software solutions to meet business needs while ensuring quality, scalability, and optimal performance. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, user-focused applications and enhancements. Analyze requirements, troubleshoot issues, and implement improvements to support organizational goals and technological advancements.

As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you will be responsible for:

• We expect you to write high quality test cases, build automation and enhance test framework to execute the tests for Compute Web Application
• Handling changes to existing tools to ensure that they align to Akamai’s with the long-term strategy
• Being flexible to learn new languages as and when required and Using software development skills to develop tools and test automation frameworks
• Understanding product requirements and ensuring that they are covered as part of the implementation
• Collaborating in an Agile environment and influencing through code reviews, design process and product development

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 1+ years of experience in a similar role and a bachelor's degree
• Demonstrate experience and knowledge of programming languages such as Python pytest.  
• Demonstrate hands-on knowledge of Linux/Unix operating systems along with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GIT, or their industry equivalents.
• Have a basic understanding of REST API testing, UI Automation and Infrastructure as Code concepts 
• Show experience with Docker or similar container technologies 
• Have proven ability to integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring reliable and efficient continuous delivery of software updates
• Have experience of working in an Agile Team when developing products through the SDLC 

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 needsAkamai'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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