Senior SDET testing Akamai's distributed cloud APIs and identity management solutions. Building Python automation, integration tests, and CI/CD quality infrastructure.
About the role
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Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end quality strategy across web, APIs, and data layers, including standards, test coverage expectations, and release criteria
- Assess existing products and features, identify quality gaps, and establish prioritized test plans based on risk and business impact
- Build and scale automated testing frameworks across unit, integration, end-to-end, and regression testing
- Define the tooling, architecture, and shared testing patterns used across engineering squads
- Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to catch regressions before they reach production
- Establish release-readiness standards, testing thresholds, and coverage expectations across teams
- Improve test reliability, pipeline health, automation coverage, and flakiness across critical user flows
- Partner with DevOps/Platform to ensure test environments are stable, fast, and representative of production
- Define and monitor engineering quality metrics that surface trends, risks, and areas for improvement
- Partner with Engineering and Product to build testability into requirements, design, and technical planning
- Drive shift-left practices so quality is considered earlier in the development lifecycle, not just before release
- Mentor engineers and QA team members on automation, testing practices, and quality ownership
- Participate in incident reviews and post-mortems and turn recurring quality gaps into systemic improvements
- Act as a quality authority on releases, including holding releases when critical standards are not met
Requirements
- 7–10+ years in software quality, including senior ownership of QA strategy, architecture, or automation
- Experience as a QA Architect, Staff/Principal SDET, Principal QA Engineer, or similar
- Proven experience building and scaling test automation frameworks
- Hands-on experience with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Jest, Postman, or similar
- Strong experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or Jenkins
- Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript testing environments, REST APIs, and relational databases
- Strong understanding of modern web application architecture and quality engineering practices
- Experience using AI development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Copilot to improve testing and automation
- Interest in applying AI to areas such as test generation, defect detection, and pipeline optimization
- Experience with performance/load testing tools such as k6, Locust, or JMeter is a plus
Benefits
- Remote work and flexible working hours
- Mentorship and development opportunities (to help you achieve your career goals!)
- Extended medical & dental benefits
- Healthcare spending account
- $3,000 annual Health and Wellness Spending Account to support your overall wellbeing
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
- Flexible (Unlimited) Time Off: No annual cap on vacation, supported by a trust-based, flexible approach to time away.
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