Senior Software Development Engineer in Test at Kong improving software feature quality through testing and automation. Collaborating within the scrum team during all sprint activities under a hybrid work model.
Responsibilities
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.
Requirements
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.
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