Join Kong as a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test to enhance quality across software feature development teams.
Skills & Technologies
AI in the day-to-day
Understand the concepts of LLM and Generative AI and typical use cases.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Development Engineer in Test actively engages with the scrum team throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring quality from design to deployment. Key skills include proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, experience with automated testing tools, and a solid understanding of CI/CD practices. This position is ideal for someone with a background in functional testing and a passion for building robust test frameworks, particularly in a startup environment. The team at Kong is focused on fostering an engineering culture that prioritizes quality across all software development efforts.
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Quick facts
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: TypeScript, Terraform, AWS, JavaScript, Pulumi, WebdriverIO.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Kong targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Development Engineer in Test role at Kong.
From the original posting
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If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.
About the role:
The Software Developer in Test is an integral part of the scrum team, participating in all sprint activities and contributing to the overall quality of the finished feature by being involved from the earliest stages of design and development through verification, deployment, and production support.
What you'll be doing:
Help in building an Engineering culture that enables quality in all software feature development teams across the company.
Develop and execute plans for continuously increasing coverage and decreasing test execution time.
Make frequent contributions to our test automation harness as part of the continuous integration pipeline.
Design test cases and execute all types of tests (e.g. functional, integration, end-to-end, security, and performance, both manual and automated).
Build tools to support automated testing of our products.
Interact and participate in meetings with key stakeholders, team members and internal users regarding timelines, and technical issues.
What you'll bring:
Experience and good knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript
Functional testing experience, including defining test strategy, test planning, test case design, execution, and reporting.
Expertise with automated testing tools and strategies.
Understanding of web application structure and potential "soft spots".
Understand the concepts of LLM and Generative AI and typical use cases.
Recent exposure to a startup environment building and contributing to a test framework, including automation, from the ground up.
You will have a solid understanding of various Test Frameworks and Automation of frontend and backend systems.
Experience with Docker
Experience with Continuous Integration/Delivery concepts and tools, including Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
API testing (RESTful, gRPC)
A passion for testing, development, and solving challenging technical problems.
Bonus Points:
Experience and knowledge in any one of Cypress, Playwright or WebdriverIO.
Experience in use, setup or operating LLM and Generative AI applications.
Knowledge of IaC (Infrastructure as code) tools such Terraform, Pulumi .
Experience with containers (Docker) and container orchestration systems (ECS, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm/Data Center, EKS, GKE).
Experience measuring and testing quality for a high-availability PaaS or SaaS offering
Experience with working Cloud Platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure
Experience in testing high-availability Enterprise scale and SaaS offerings.
Knowledge of Lua Programming Language.
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About Kong:
Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era. Trusted by the Fortune 500 and startups alike, Kong's unified API and AI platform, Kong Konnect, enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models. For more information, visit www.konghq.com.