Summary
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Join a high-performing engineering team as a Senior SDET, helping validate complex, large-scale security systems. You’ll design and execute functional, integration, system, and acceptance tests across both manual and automated workflows, collaborate closely within an agile team, and help establish strong quality practices.
Highlights
Senior-level QA role focused on large-scale cybersecurity systems, combining hands-on automated and manual testing with cross-team collaboration and ownership of high-quality engineering practices.
Description
Job Description
Do you like collaborating across teams to solve complex problems?
Do you enjoy solving large-scale systems problems?
Join our Team!
Akamai transforms how organizations safeguard data centers and clouds against advanced threats.
Our team includes highly skilled cybersecurity data engineers.
We continually seek individuals who contribute fresh ideas and enhance our capabilities.
The SSE QA team ensures thorough testing of innovative technologies and systems.
We prioritize customers, aiming to protect their business operations and data from evolving threats.
Partner with the best
As a SDET, you will be part of a scrum team.
Working to support high quality practices, plan and build functional, integration, system and acceptance tests, both manual and automated.
You'll be a key part of the team responsible for building a world class SSE solution.
As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be responsible for:
Executing the complete QA process: collecting specifications, creating test plans, automating tests with PyTest, and integrating into CICD pipelines.Creating and applying new approaches and concepts, including AI, to improve the productivity and efficiency of testing practices.Designing testing tools, which include developing scripts to enhance regression testing.
Do What You Love
To be successful in this role you will:
Have a solid QA testing experienceHave an advanced knowledge of scripting languages including Python, shell script, SQL, and REST APIHave advanced knowledge of Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, ArgoWF, ArgoCD, Clickhouse, S3, Kafka, Terraform, Kibana, and GrafanaDemonstrate experience in testing of BigData Backend Distributed systemsHave experience working with Cloud Platform(s) AWS, GCP, AzureHave experience working with AI tools such as Clude-code, Co-PilotHave a good understanding on networking protocols and technologies (especially HTTP, HTTPS, DNS)
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.
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FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience.
It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
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