Are you excited by the prospect of working and developing tests for UI and web services?
Would you like the opportunity to work on a wide range of technical challenges for our prestigious customers?
Work with a truly global team
Our Cloud Technology Group is a team of dedicated professionals shaping Akamai's aspirations to create an industry-leading user experience. We take ownership for the design and development for core interfaces, applications, APIs, and services. We create an experience that allows customers and internal stakeholders to build software using the best of internal and third-party technologies.
Be part of making a critical difference
This is an exciting opportunity to join a quality assurance team and contribute to a dynamic work setting. Collaborating with a skilled QA team, you'll help deliver essential components enabling secure business operations. Supporting engineering and product teams, you'll influence Akamai's Core platform capabilities. Using agile methodologies and Java, TypeScript, or Python, you'll create outstanding testing frameworks.
As a Senior II Software Development Engineer in Test , you will be responsible for:
- Developing automation code in Java or TypeScript to build test frameworks, improve functionality and automate testing infrastructures
- Overseeing the scope of release changes and owning the responsibility of E2E testing
- Introducing innovation from the marketplace, contributing to the broader community, and aiming for advancements in artificial intelligence innovation.
- Being a collaborative and proactive member of the teams in Krakow, US and other global teams
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have experience developing code in TypeScript, Java or Python
- Have experience in Automation Testing, Playwright or Cypress, Web API Testing, and familiarity with TestNG and/or JUnit frameworks
- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the internet, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, HTML, and SSL protocols
- Demonstrate working knowledge of integration, end-to-end testing as well as regression testing
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
Skills Required
- Experience developing code in TypeScript, Java, or Python
- Experience in automation testing
- Experience with Playwright or Cypress
- Experience with web API testing
- Familiarity with TestNG and/or JUnit frameworks
- Comprehensive understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, HTML, and SSL protocols
- Working knowledge of integration, end-to-end, and regression testing
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
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What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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