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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 Engineer in Test is an integral part of konnect cloud engineer 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.
This opportunity is hybrid with 3 days in office and 2 days work from home
What you'll do:
- Evaluate existing testing tools and test suite, develop and execute on plan for continuously increasing coverage and decreasing test execution time
- Establish best practices for testing and evangelize them across the team and engineering organization
- Design and implement test automation harness as part of continuous integration pipeline
- Design test cases and execute all types of testing (e.g. functional, integration, end-to-end, security, and performance, both manual and automated)
- Own quality metrics, including code coverage, for the scrum team
- Make recommendations for appropriate quality goals
- 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
- Expertise with automated testing tools and strategies
- Understanding of web application structure and potential "soft spots"
- Awareness of common web security vulnerabilities and how to test for them
Bonus Points - Hands-on experience with any of the following:
- API testing (RESTful, gRPC preferred)
- Microservice testing
- Experience measuring and testing quality for a high-availability PaaS or SaaS offering
We love to work together, so this opportunity is a hybrid one. What does that mean?We come to the office three days a week and work from home the other two days. Life happens, and we are cool if you need to work remotely sometime.
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.
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