Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Kong; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kong is seeking a Software Developer in Test in Toronto. You will be part of a scrum team, aiding in the overall quality of features via testing and automation. Responsibilities include building an Engineering culture focused on quality, creating test plans, and developing automation tools.

The ideal candidate has strong experience in JavaScript/TypeScript, functional and automated testing. Knowledge of Docker and CI/CD tools like Jenkins is essential. Bonus points for expertise in LLM and Generative AI.

Qualifications

• Experience and good knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Functional testing experience including defining test strategy.
• Expertise with automated testing tools and strategies.
• Understanding of web application structure.
• Understand concepts of LLM and Generative AI.
• Exposure to a startup environment building automation frameworks.
• Solid understanding of Test Frameworks.
• Experience with Docker.
• Experience with CI/CD concepts and tools.
• API testing experience.

Responsibilities

• Help build an Engineering culture for quality in software development.
• Develop and execute plans for test coverage and execution time.
• Contribute to our test automation harness.
• Design test cases and execute various test types.
• Build tools for automated testing.
• Interact with stakeholders regarding timelines and issues.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

Functional testing

Automated testing tools

Understanding of web application structure

Knowledge of LLM and Generative AI

Test Frameworks

Docker

Continuous Integration/Delivery

API testing (RESTful, gRPC)

Problem-solving

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Cypress

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Are you ready to unlock intelligence?

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.