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Software Developer in Test, AI Gateway - Milan

Speed up time to market by unleashing developer productivity, automating security, and streamlining API management.

Kong

Employee count: 201-500

Italy only

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About the role:

The Software Developer 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 of our products.

  • Interact and participate in meetings with key stakeholders, team members and internal users regarding timelines, and technical issues.

What you'll bring:

  • Experience and good knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript

  • 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".

  • Understand the concepts of LLM and Generative AI and typical use cases.

  • 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.

  • API testing (RESTful, gRPC)

  • A passion for testing, development, and solving challenging technical problems.

Bonus Points:

  • Experience and knowledge in any one of Cypress, Playwright or WebdriverIO

  • Experience in use, setup or operating LLM and Generative AI applications.

  • Knowledge of IaC (Infrastructure as code) tools such Terraform, Pulumi .

  • 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.

  • Knowledge of Lua Programming Language.

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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About Kong

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Speed up time to market by unleashing developer productivity, automating security, and streamlining API management.

Kong powers the API world

Kong provides the foundation that enables any company to become an API-first company — speeding up time to market, creating new business opportunities, and delivering superior products and services.

Built on the world’s most adopted API gateway, Kong’s unified cloud API platform delivers fast, reliable, secure digital experiences. With Kong, organizations can increase developer productivity, security, and performance at scale with a single easy-to-use platform for API management, service mesh, and ingress controller.

We put customers at the heart of everything we do. That’s why everyone from e-commerce startups to the world’s leading biotech companies trust Kong to run mission-critical applications.

We embody open source and everything it stands for. We foster a culture of individualism — encouraging our people to bring new ideas and innovations, regardless of level and function.

How we do it

We’re passionate about solving the challenges that will fundamentally shape the future of tech. If you believe in taking ownership of your work, making an impact, and having fun along the way, come join us!

Global: Be Inclusive. We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our differences make us stronger.

Real: Be Authentic. We are genuine, pricipled and confident without arrogance. Show respect and kindness, especially in tough moments.

Unstoppable: Be Relentlessly Resourceful. We work with purpose, obsession and grit. It takes muscle to do hard things and doing hard things builds muscle.

Champions: Be Customer Obsessed. We care. Customers are everything, we put them at the center of everything you do. We are all empowered to make an impact.

Explorers: Be Curious. We value ideas over hierarchy. Never accept the status quo. We make bold bets, fail, and learn everyday. There is always a way.

Own It: Be an owner. We are drivers not passengers and own the quality and outcomes of our work.

Employee benefits

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Unplug Days

Kong encourages taking well-deserved long weekends where the entire team unplugs to rest and recharge.

Equity Participation

Kongers are offered stock options to share in the success of the company, aligning employee and company growth.

Virtual Team Events

Kong hosts virtual events, donut chats, trivia, and fitness challenges to keep team members connected and engaged.

Office Stipend

Kong offers an office stipend to help employees build a home office environment tailored to support their productivity.

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