Akamai

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

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19 hours ago
Remote, Canada or Ottawa, CanadaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build and contribute to the roadmap for enterprise IP addressing and connectivity features.
  • Design and develop automated tests and contribute to testing frameworks.
  • Manage, monitor, troubleshoot, and improve test execution pipelines.
  • Integrate testing into CI/CD release pipelines.
  • Validate cloud-native technologies and architectures.
  • Define and adopt testing best practices and share knowledge.
  • Collaborate in an Agile environment to ensure high product quality.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in developing test automation using a widely accepted framework.
  • Experience focused on backend and REST API testing.
  • Familiarity with Python or willingness to learn it.
  • Strong analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting skills for resolving test issues in complex platforms.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools, specifically Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
  • Understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, IPv6, VLANs, DNS, TLS, HTTP, and BGP.
  • Practical knowledge of virtualization, such as Docker and virtual machines.
  • Positive view of using AI to supplement the software development lifecycle.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements allowing employees to work from home, in an office, or in a combination of both through Akamai’s FlexBase program.
  • Healthcare, RRSP, company holidays, vacation/PTO, sick time, and family-friendly benefits including an employee assistance program.
  • Mental and financial wellness support, subject to eligibility requirements.
  • Potential annual bonus or incentive compensation, equity awards, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Tech Stack

DockerGitHub ActionsJenkinsPython

Categories

Akamai

About Akamai

10,000+ employees

Akamai builds content delivery, cloud security, and edge compute services for enterprises that run consumer and business web, API, and video workloads. The public company (NASDAQ: AKAM), founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, operates a global CDN and security platform and sells via subscriptions and usage-based services. It expanded into cloud infrastructure by acquiring Linode in 2022, offering IaaS and managed Kubernetes.

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