11 hours ago
Remote, Czechia or Prague, CzechiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain automated Python and Pytest test cases for backend control plane services, REST APIs, and CLI utilities.
- Create functional and integration tests for virtual machine lifecycle operations, live migrations, and KVM hypervisor updates.
- Integrate test suites into continuous integration pipelines for regular automated regression execution.
- Investigate test failures, identify root causes, and collaborate with developers on resolutions.
- Support software platform maintenance, hypervisor upgrades, and host stack validation for cloud infrastructure.
Requirements
- At least two years of relevant experience in software test automation or quality engineering.
- Technical-field education or equivalent relevant background as stated in the posting.
- Expertise in Python programming and practical experience with Pytest or similar test automation frameworks.
- Expertise in Linux environments and foundational CI/CD pipeline integration.
- Preferred experience with TypeScript and frontend testing tools such as Cypress or Playwright.
- Preferred knowledge of Linux hypervisors, KVM, VM live migrations, and low-level host stack operations.
- Preferred experience with SaltStack, Ansible, or ArgoCD for infrastructure configuration management.
Benefits
- Akamai provides benefits supporting health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work.
- FlexBase supports working from home, in an office, or in a combination of both.
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About Akamai
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.