About the Job
We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer with an unwavering passion for excellence in software quality engineering and the proven skills and experience to transform that passion into continuous improvement and consistent excellence in release validation. The candidate will work with Developers, DevQA and other SQA engineers to help define, implement and improve the system-wide validation and verification of our Media & Content Delivery and Acceleration Products. Responsibilities of a Senior Software Quality Engineer include developing system-level test plans, creating, enhancing and executing manual system tests and automated system tests written in Perl, diagnosing, debugging and performing root-cause analysis of issues and defects, and working with other SQA Engineers testing existing and new features and functionality to help ensure consistently high release confidence. This individual will be faced with complex software automation and verification challenges and opportunities, with a mission to release high quality application/system software that is highly resilient and optimally performing on very large distributed networks.
About the Team
The System Quality Assurance group is responsible for extensive testing across all the technologies developed in Engineering. This group is knowledgeable about all these technologies and focuses on real-world, end-to-end testing to ensure all of Akamai´s systems integrate well. In addition, this group works on automated testing infrastructure and systematic test case tracking to increase efficiency within the quality assurance process.
Responsibilities:
* Perform manual and automated functional and full system tests for Akamai's Media & Content Delivery and Acceleration Products.
* Contribute to system test methodologies, test plans and highly effective test automation.
* Create, deploy and maintain automated system tests to replicate real-world scenarios.
* Review bug descriptions, functional requirements and design documents, incorporating this information into test plans and test cases.
Basic Qualifications
* Education: Bachelor´s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
* 5+ years of overall software quality and/or development engineering experience.
* 3+ years manual and automated UNIX/Linux server-side quality engineering experience, including hands-on experience developing test scripts/test automation.
* 3+ years of hands-on networking experience including HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP Networking Protocols.
* Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and excellent problem solving/troubleshooting skills.
Desired Qualifications
* Education: Masters Degree or greater in Computer Science.
* Excellent oral and written communications skills.
* Highly driven, positive attitude, team player, self-motivated and very flexible.
* Experience with Linux internals, large-scale/distributed Systems testing.
* Perl/Object Oriented Perl programming and/or shell scripting skills is a great plus.
Other Information
* Is relocation available for this position: No
* Is US Citizenship required: No
* Is a Security Clearance Required: No
If yes, applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation & must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
About Akamai
Akamai provides market-leading, cloud-based services for optimizing Web and mobile content and applications, online HD video, and secure e-commerce. Combining highly-distributed, energy-efficient computing with intelligent software, Akamai has grown from a theoretical "big idea" in 1998, into one of the world's most successful technology companies. With more than 2,000 employees and over 85,000 servers located around the world Akamai´s distributed computing system is transforming the cloud into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, transact and collaborate.
Contact us!
If you´re excited by Akamai and would like to help change the online landscape please apply.
Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity employer (M/F/D/V) that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace.
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