Software Development Engineer in Test II
Akamai · Czechia
Do you want to lead automated quality engineering for next-generation cloud infrastructure?
Are you passionate about Automation Developing?
Join our Compute Team!
Akamai's Compute Team aims to simplify, scale, and make cloud computing accessible and affordable globally, driving innovation. Hosting extensive virtual machines and data, the Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) II supports automated testing, framework upkeep, and quality assurance. Responsibilities include software platform maintenance and hypervisor upgrades within the expanding infrastructure.
Partner with the best
This role involves creating and running automated tests for the Fleet Ops project to support backend services, APIs, and tools. Responsibilities include developing and maintaining test suites to verify hypervisor upgrades and ensure consistent service functionality.
As a SDET II on the Fleet Operations Team, you will be responsible for:
- Developing and maintaining automated test cases with Python and Pytest to validate backend control plane services, REST APIs, and CLI utilities.
- Developing functional and integration tests for virtual machine lifecycle operations, live migrations, and KVM hypervisor updates within host stack validation.
- CI/CD & Automation Integration: Integrate test suites into continuous integration pipelines to ensure regular automated regression execution.
- Investigating test failures, identifying root causes, and collaborating with developers to resolve issues efficiently and effectively.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Possess relevant experience in software test automation or quality engineering, totaling two or more, with education in technical fields.
- Demonstrate expertise in Python programming and practical experience using test automation frameworks such as Pytest effectively.
- Demonstrate expertise in Linux environments and foundational CI/CD pipeline integration using tools like Jenkins or GitHub Actions effectively.
- Validate frontend test automation using TypeScript and web testing tools like Cypress or Playwright for unified control pane UI accuracy. - nice to have.
- Utilize Linux hypervisors, KVM, VM live migrations, and low-level host stack operationsknowledge in these areas is advantageous.
- Utilize tools like SaltStack, Ansible, or ArgoCD for infrastructure configuration management; experience with these is advantageous.
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
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