Are you ready to power the World's connections?

If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.

About the role:

The 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.

Why should you want to work at Kong?

• Market Opportunity
• We are on a quest to build a $10b+ software company over the next few years and need YOUR help!

Why APIs Matter https://systemsapproach.substack.com/p/why-apis-matter?s=r? APIs have been enabling innovation for decades!

Strong VC team, Series D https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/konghq/company_financials, strong year over year revenue growth!

• Technical Leadership
• We are recognized as the leader in innovation in the connectivity space.

Marco, our CTO/co-founder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd-VjsYrPMs- “We are the Cisco of L4 and L7” - CUBE Conversation, March 2021

We are the leading innovator https://venturebeat.com/2021/05/17/how-the-api-economy-is-powering-digital-transformation/ in the connectivity space!

• Amazing Team & Culture
• Come be a "Konger" and find out what we mean.

Great Place to Work Certified https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7020766 in 2020 & 2021

Kong employees exemplify our culture at our 2022 Sales Kickoff https://drive.google.com/file/d/17a8naiP7XQdXF_XnG5FIpCbqZ8SodiuM/view

2022 Forbes Cloud 100 Honoree https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220809005784/en/Kong-Inc.-Is-Named-to-the-2022-Forbes-Cloud-100-for-the-Second-Consecutive-Year

• Building Great Products
• Learn why the world's largest companies love our tech!

Kong Named in the Leaders Quadrant of the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management for the Fourth Consecutive Year https://konghq.com/press-release/gartner-magic-quadrant-api-management-2023

Over 250m+ downloads of our open source API gateway! Over 40k+ stars on Github between Kong API https://github.com/Kong/kong and Kong Insomnia https://github.com/Kong/insomnia!

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).

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

What you'll bring:

• Functional testing experience, including defining test strategy, test planning, test case design, execution, and reporting.

• Proficient in at least one programming language, with solid debugging and problem-solving skills, and the ability to quickly ramp up on a JavaScript/TypeScript-based test automation framework.

• Expertise with automated testing tools and strategies.

• Understanding of web application structure and potential "soft spots".

• 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.

• 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

• Working experience with JavaScript/TypeScript

• 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 Paa

S or SaaS offering:

• Experience with working Cloud Platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure

• Experience in testing high-availability Enterprise scale and SaaS offerings.

• Experience with performance engineering and profiling and tools such as JMeter, K6.

• Recent exposure to a startup environment building and contributing to a test framework, including automation, from the ground up.

About Kong:

Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, is building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era. trusted by the Fortune 500 and startups alike, Kong's unified API and AI platform, Kong Konnect, enables organizations to secure, manage, accelerate, govern, and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models. For more information, visit www.konghq.com http://www.konghq.com.