Akamai

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Akamai
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Remote, Canada or Ottawa, CanadaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Review product designs, architectures, and specifications; create comprehensive test plans; and execute functional, load, and performance tests.
  • Build manual and automated integration and system tests for Akamai cloud APIs and services.
  • Contribute continuously to test automation infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, including writing automated tests and reviewing peer automation pull requests.
  • Partner with globally distributed developers, SDET engineers, architects, and program managers.
  • Ensure systems and software meet product specifications and contribute to release readiness and deployment schedule decisions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • More than 6 years of experience developing Python-based automation frameworks and testing REST/Open APIs.
  • Solid understanding of SDLC and testing methodologies.
  • Hands-on experience with Unix/Linux environments and core networking concepts including HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP.
  • Proficiency with Git, Jira, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and basic MySQL database querying and schema design.
  • Experience deploying, managing, scaling, and troubleshooting containerized applications in Kubernetes environments.

Benefits

  • Health, well-being, financial, and other employee benefits are provided.
  • Akamai’s FlexBase program supports working from home, in an office, or through a combination of both.

Tech Stack

GitGitHub ActionsJenkinsKubernetesLinuxMySQLPython

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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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