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Interview Process
1. Phone interview.
2. Pairing and technical interviews.
3. Take home assigment.
Programming Languages Mentioned
JavaScript
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About the role:
The Senior Software Engineer 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, load testing, performance testing of our products
Interact and participate in meetings with key stakeholders, team members and internal users regarding timelines, and technical issues.
Mentor and guide other Quality Engineering team members as well as technical and non-technical staff members.
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".
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.
Experience with performance engineering and profiling and tools such as JMeter, K6.
API testing (RESTful, gRPC)
A passion for testing, development, and solving challenging technical problems.
Working experience with JavaScript/TypeScript
Working experience with one or more test automation tools and frameworks such as Cypress and Playwright.
Ability to prioritize test activities and testing tasks.
Experience working with globally distributed teams.
Demonstrated skills using code repositories and Atlassian tools (GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, or similar tools).
Bonus Points:
Knowledge of IaC (Infrastructure as code) tools such Terraform, Pulumi .
Knowledge of Lua Programming Language
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.
About Kong:
Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). Loved by developers and trusted with enterprises’ most critical traffic volumes, Kong helps startups and Fortune 500 companies build with confidence – allowing them to bring solutions to market faster with API and service connectivity that scales easily and securely.
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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