Are you excited to work with innovative security products?
Do you enjoy automation and Testing for strategic solutions?
Join our world-class enterprise security team
Our team develops world-class Enterprise Security products for our customers.
We are responsible for developing the mobile and desktop Client services that helps mitigate malware and phishing threats. your contributions to the product's quality will directly influence our customers experience!
Fast moving QA manual & Automation Engineer
Join the QA team responsible for validating Akamai's GPA client across Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. The team develops automation, maintains CI/CD pipelines, and delivers high-quality releases for enterprise security solutions.
As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be responsible for:
- Developing and maintaining automated test solutions using Python across multiple operating systems.
- Designing reusable automation frameworks using abstraction layers and scalable architecture.
- Creating automation tools using Python, Groovy, and CLI scripts. Ensuring robust automation frameworks.
- Performing manual testing, creating test plans, and documenting new feature validation.
- Collaborating with development teams to investigate issues and improve product quality.
- Supporting DevOps activities, virtualization platforms, and testing environments.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have +5 years experience developing automated tests using Python and modern testing frameworks.
- Be comfortable reading, understanding, and debugging production-quality application code.
- Be fully committed and notably available. Dedication to team and project success is required.
- Demonstrate experience designing maintainable automation frameworks using reusable abstractions.
- Possess hands-on experience creating manual test plans and executing complex validation scenarios.
- Have deep familiarity with Windows and macOS, with exposure to Linux environments.
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
- Extensive experience developing automated tests using Python and modern testing frameworks
- Experience creating automation tools using Python, Groovy, and CLI scripts
- Designing maintainable automation frameworks using reusable abstractions
- Hands-on experience creating manual test plans and executing complex validation scenarios
- Comfortable reading, understanding, and debugging production-quality application code
- Deep familiarity with Windows and macOS, with exposure to Linux environments
- Experience supporting DevOps activities, CI/CD pipelines, virtualization platforms, and testing environments
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.
Akamai Technologies Insights
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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