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Software Development Engineer in Test (Gateway)

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 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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Italy +/- 0 hours

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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