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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.
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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.
Skills Required
- Experience and good knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript
- Functional testing experience including test strategy, planning, design, execution, reporting
- Expertise with automated testing tools and strategies
- Solid understanding of various Test Frameworks and Automation
- Experience with Continuous Integration/Delivery concepts and tools
- Experience with Docker
- API testing (RESTful, gRPC)
Kong Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kong and has not been reviewed or approved by Kong.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive for many roles, particularly in senior and technical positions, with bonuses and overtime enhancing earnings for some. Compensation is generally described as strong across a range of functions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies such as flexible time off, company Unplug Days, U‑First Fridays, and a paid sabbatical create multiple avenues for rest and personal development. These offerings support work‑life balance for a distributed workforce.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Stock options and an employee stock purchase plan enable broad participation in company equity. Equity is positioned as a meaningful component of total rewards alongside cash compensation.
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What We Do
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.
Why Work With Us
It starts with how we show up for each other. We’ve created a workplace that’s intentionally flexible, deeply inclusive, and built for meaningful collaboration — whether virtual or in person. We trust our teams to own their work, and we give them the support, tools, and freedom to grow.
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