Software Development Engineer in Test

Akamai•Cambridge, MA

23h•$75,700 - $136,300•Hybrid

About The Position

Join our Akamai Storage Engineering team! Our team is responsible for developing and maintaining Akamai's cloud storage platform. Our enterprise grade solution is an essential element to Akamai's Connected Cloud platform. We provide a scalable and secure storage solution for our customers to build their businesses. We also deliver massive amounts of data at scale that is unmatched by any other in the industry. On our team, you will be responsible for quality assurance of our Storage product and for developing component level test automation, as well as executing automated and manual tests. You will also ensure that our state-of-the-art distributed storage platform is stable, resilient, and scalable.

Requirements

Have a Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
Have experience working in Unix/Linux and developing Automation framework using python
Have experience with storage technologies and/or Cloud computing and networking concepts such as HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP
Be highly responsible, self-managed, self-motivated, able to work with minimal supervision and possess excellent communication skills
Have passion to understand, learn, and dissect new technologies quickly and excellent debugging/troubleshooting skills

Responsibilities

Participating in functional and product design reviews, and incorporating feedback into test plans and test cases
Developing and implementing automated tests for functionality, load, and performance
Creating and execute tests on new features and capabilities
Collaborating with a cross functional team of developers, Systems QA, release engineers, architects and program managers
Improving our testing and automation infrastructures, define test plans and effective automation