Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (Gateway)

Are you ready to power the World's connections?

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 Development Engineer 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.
• Investigating and reproducing reported problems, testing existing and new features, validating bugfixes, and creating and managing bug reports.
• Documenting and designing test cases for our products.
• Write, execute and maintain manual and automated tests for our products. This can include Unit, Integration and E2E tests.
• Setting up, maintaining, and execute automated checks on multiple application platforms, such as On-premises, Desktop, and Web as well as across different supported OS’s.
• Participate in on-call rotation to support the applications you test.

What you'll bring:

• Functional testing experience, including defining test strategy, test planning, test case design, execution, and reporting.
• Experience in common testing methods, testing tools, terminology and industry practices.
• Experience with one or more test automation tools and frameworks such as Cypress and/or Playwright.
• API testing (RESTful, gRPC preferred).
• Technical troubleshooting, diagnosing and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to adapt to new situations and learn quickly.
• Understanding of web applications structure and potential "soft spots".
• You understand Continuous Delivery concepts and can use tools including Jenkins/Travis and GitHub Actions.
• The ability to recognize risks and errors in an application.

Bonus Points

• You have experience with performance engineering and profiling and tools such as JMeter and K6.
• Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes.
• Experience testing quality for a high-availability PaaS or SaaS offering.

About Kong: 

Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). As the innovation leader of cloud API technologies, Kong is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become "API-first" and securely accelerate AI adoption. Kong helps organizations globally - from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises - unleash developer productivity, build securely and accelerate to market.

83% of web traffic today is API calls! APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another. Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud. Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!

For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.