Software Developer in Test, AI Gateway - Milan

Posted 20 Days Ago
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Milan
In-Office
Mid level
Cloud
The Role
The Software Developer in Test will develop automation tools, design test cases, and enhance testing strategies for software quality, participating in scrum activities.
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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 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.

Top Skills

Api Testing
AWS
Azure
Cypress
Docker
GCP
Github Actions
JavaScript
Jenkins
Lua
Playwright
Pulumi
Terraform
Typescript
Webdriverio
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The Company
Chicago, Illinois
800 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

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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