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Software Development Engineer in Test, AI Gateway - Shanghai

KongShanghai, ChinaOnsite
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.

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:


  • 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 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.

About Kong:


Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). As the innovation leader of cloud API technologies, Kong 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 to market.83% of web traffic today is API calls!  APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another.  Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud.  Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind! For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.We are an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.#LI-CL1Apply for this job

Life at Kong

Kong Inc. is the fastest growing Microservices API platform. We exist to broker Information through Enterprises. We are best known as the creator and primary supporter of Kong, the most widely adopted open-source Microservice API gateway. We're backed by a16z, Index Ventures, CRV, Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Eric Schmidt (Google), Stanford University, NEA and many others. Join our team to connect the future of infrastructure.
Thrive Here & What We Value* Collaborative environment between Kong Inc. Security and all impacted teams* Focus on maintaining customer trust* Passion for Cyber Security with real difference in protection* Hybrid role (3 days office, 2 days remote)* Drive automation to detect/eliminate malicious agents* Emphasis on collaboration and innovation* Opportunities for career growth* Open communication and feedback culture* Flexible working hours* Customer-obsessed with a focus on satisfaction and high-quality products

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