Software Development Engineer in Test II

Do you want to shape automated quality engineering for next-generation edge and cloud delivery?

Are you passionate about building robust test automation?

Join our Compute division's Platform Engineering Team!

Akamai's CTG Team builds services empowering customers to deploy application-level features at the edge, such as traffic routing. As a Software Development Engineer in Test II, responsibilities involve thorough testing to validate releases and designing automation frameworks ensuring APIs, edge functionality, and user interfaces are scalable, resilient, and perform efficiently across diverse scenarios.

Partner with the best

This role involves designing, developing and maintaining automated test suites for backend services, REST APIs, edge components and web UIs. You will collaborate cross-functionally with developers, SRE and support teams to find quality bottlenecks early, investigate failures and ship reliable releases.

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

• Developing and maintaining automated API, integration and end-to-end tests using Java, Groovy or Kotlin.
• Designing and implementing UI test automation with Playwright or Cypress.
• Validating HTTP-based services and edge behavior.
• Integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines so that regression runs happen automatically and reliably.
• Investigating test failures, identifying root causes and working with developers to resolve issues quickly.
• Maintaining test environments, test data and reusable test tooling.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Possess engineering expertise or equivalent education in computing or related field, alongside applicable practical experience in software development.
• Demonstrate programming expertise in any language. Familiarity with Java, Groovy, Kotlin, and test frameworks like Spock, JUnit, or TestNG.
• Demonstrate expertise in networking fundamentals, including comprehensive understanding of HTTP, TCP/IP, and DNS protocols.
• Demonstrate practical experience with UI test automation and familiarity with tools such as Playwright or Cypress.
• Work in Linux environments, utilizing shell scripting and command-line troubleshooting expertise to address technical challenges effectively.
• Demonstrate expertise with Git and continuous integration and delivery practices effectively.
• Demonstrate exceptional ability to communicate effectively in English through both written and verbal expression.
• Demonstrate expertise with Jenkins infrastructure, pipelines, Job DSL, agents, plugins, API testing tools, reporting tools, or AI-driven debugging.

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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