Remote Senior SDET - Automation & Distributed Systems

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Honolulu (HI); Remote; USD 121,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401K savings plan

FlexBase program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is hiring for the role of Senior Software Development Engineer in Test in Cambridge, MA (telecommuting permitted from anywhere in the United States). The role involves QA/testing, building automation, and distributed system verification to ensure robust test coverage.

Collaborate with developers and other QA teams on automation infrastructure and system test plans. Required: Master’s degree and 2 years in related roles; experience with programming languages, databases,

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in CS/Engineering or related field plus 2 years of experience.
• 2 years of experience building software test beds, unit tests, automation tools or infrastructures.
• Experience with C, C++, Java, Javascript, Python, PERL or JSON.
• Experience with SQL, MySQL, NoSQL, Postgres or MongoDB.
• Experience with automation tools and CI/CD (Ansible, Jenkins, Jira, Chef, Git, Gitlab).
• Experience with Django, Flask, Spring or Splunk and container tech (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Cassandra or Kafka.

Responsibilities

• Perform QA/testing duties to support automation and verification in a distributed system environment.
• Collaborate with developers and QA teams on system-wide automation infrastructure.
• Contribute to system test plans to ensure effective test coverage and automation.
• Create and deploy automated system tests to replicate real-world scenarios.
• Improve testing methodologies to enhance test automation efficiency.
• Review requirements to verify accuracy of test plans and tests.

Skills

Test automation

Test bed development

Programming languages

Automation tooling

Distributed systems

QA strategy

Education

Master’s degree or foreign equivalent

Tools

Ansible

Jenkins

Jira

Chef

Git

Gitlab

Docker

Kubernetes

Cassandra

Kafka

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is hiring for the role of Senior Software Development Engineer in Test in Cambridge, MA (telecommuting permitted from anywhere in the United States). The role involves QA/testing, building automation, and distributed system verification to ensure robust test coverage.

Collaborate with developers and other QA teams on automation infrastructure and system test plans. Required: Master’s degree and 2 years in related roles; experience with programming languages, databases,