Senior Software Development Engineer in Test - Remote

Overview

The Senior Software Engineer in Test is a vital role within the Platform Team at Kong, responsible for ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of critical platform services.

In Short

• Participate in all sprint activities as part of the scrum team.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies for platform services.
• Design and implement automated testing frameworks.
• Contribute to the continuous integration pipeline.
• Execute various tests including functional, integration, and performance testing.
• Mentor and guide other Quality Engineering team members.
• Collaborate with SRE and DevOps teams for observability implementation.
• Interact with stakeholders regarding timelines and technical issues.
• Build tools for automated testing and chaos engineering.
• Maintain security testing practices for authentication systems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software testing experience with backend services.
• Expertise with automated testing tools for backend services.
• Strong programming skills in Go or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience testing distributed systems and message queues.
• Knowledge of testing authentication and authorization systems.
• Experience with API testing frameworks and tools.
• Solid understanding of test automation of backend systems.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration/Delivery concepts.
• Experience with performance engineering tools.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams.

Benefits

• Be part of a leading developer of cloud API technologies.
• Contribute to an innovative engineering culture.
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies.
• Collaborate with a globally distributed team.
• Engage in continuous learning and professional development.