Software Development Engineer in Test II

Do you relish the prospect of working with cutting-edge network security systems?

Do you love collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

Join our world-class Delivery Experience Team

Akamai's Control Center is our face to our users on the Web. We provide tools, APIs, analytics, configuration management, web services, and interfaces for our customers to manage their accounts. We focus on building a resilient and scalable platform that enables our web services to run seamlessly.

Partner with the best

As a SDET engineer, Test new products and/or existing products. Akamai's Next Generation portal is used to deliver an exceptional end-user experience in interacting with Akamai solutions. Provide a platform that enables Akamai as well as third parties to rapidly deliver innovative products and features in a distributed development model.

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

• Qualifying new and existing features of massively distributed data systems.
• Collaborating with developers and SQA teams to test products efficiently. Creating and maintain robust test automation systems
• Scoping out test plans based on design requirements and code changes. Executing tests across environments, maintaining high automation pass percentage.
• Investigating and analyze root causes of technical issues or performance bottlenecks.
• Leveraging AI to enhance automation by utilizing AI-driven tools to develop, refine, and expedite Python-based UI and API automation scripts.
• Collaborating with Agentic AI Frameworks: Assisting the team in integrating workflows to oversee AI agents handling routine manual and automated tasks.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 2 to 4 years of experience in Software Testing with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Have experience in both Manual and Automation Testing using Python, Java, and TestNG.
• Have expertise in API testing using Rest Assured, Requests Library, or Postman. Proficiency in UI automation testing using Selenium or Playwright.
• Have experience with Jenkins CI/CD and understanding of networking and system fundamentals (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, OS concepts).
• Be able to leverage AI tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) and Agentic AI workflows

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.

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