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Software Development Engineer in Test (Gateway)

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Milan

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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 Software Development 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.
  • Investigating and reproducing reported problems, testing existing and new features, validating bugfixes, and creating and managing bug reports.
  • Documenting and designing test cases for our products.
  • Write, execute and maintain manual and automated tests for our products. This can include Unit, Integration and E2E tests.
  • Setting up, maintaining, and execute automated checks on multiple application platforms, such as On-premises, Desktop, and Web as well as across different supported OS’s.
  • Participate in on-call rotation to support the applications you test.
    • What you'll bring:
  • Core programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Experience with Docker / Docker Compose
  • Functional testing experience, including defining test strategy, test planning, test case design, execution, and reporting.
  • Experience in common testing methods, testing tools, terminology and industry practices.
  • Experience with one or more test automation tools and frameworks such as Cypress and/or Playwright.
  • API testing (RESTful, gRPC preferred).
  • Technical troubleshooting, diagnosing and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to adapt to new situations and learn quickly.
  • Understanding of web applications structure and potential "soft spots".
  • You understand Continuous Delivery concepts and can use tools including Jenkins/Travis and GitHub Actions.
  • The ability to recognize risks and errors in an application.
    • Bonus Points
  • You have experience with performance engineering and profiling and tools such as JMeter and K6.
  • Experience testing quality for a high-availability PaaS or SaaS offering.

    • About Kong: 

    Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, 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 time to market. For more information about Kong, please visit www.konghq.com or follow us on X @thekonginc.

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