Software Development Engineer in Test Job

Akamai(R) is the leading content delivery network (CDN) providing cloud services that help deliver, optimize, and secure online content and business applications. At the foundation of Akamai solutions, the Akamai Intelligent Platform™ enables unmatched speed, reliability, and security–backed by expertise and relentless innovation–to improve reach and invisibility across the web.

This position will offer the opportunity to test software that runs one of the largest distributed systems in the world. You will be an integral part of our aggressive growth strategy for creating highly inventive techbology solutions for our customers, driving more and more traffic on the Internet. The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated, highly productive engineer who will be validating the quality of our software components. The role encompasses formulating and building extensive test cases and methodologies to verify new functionalities and features for different releases, idebtifying defects and areas of optimaization, and applying innovative software testing methodologies.

- Scope out comprehensive test plans based on the design requirements and code changes. - Execute tests on a large-scale distributed test network. - Maintain/ enhance/ develop test tools and automation frameworks. - Benchmark various server metrics, across releases/ hardware, to ensure quality and high performance. - Investigate and analyze root causes of technical issues/ performance bottlenecks. - Verify and validate the server using white-box/ functions/ stress testing techniques. - Mentor and train team members.

**Basic Qualifications:** - Minimum of 2 years relevant experience with Bachelor's degree or a Master's Degree in a CS-related field. - Minimum 1 year of verification techniques such as black/ white box testing, identifying and formulating test cases preferred. - Minimum 2 years experienece programming in at least one language (C, C+, Perl, Python, etc.). - Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience working in Unix/ Linux. - Good understanding of networking concepts, web technologies, protocols such as HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP. - Minimum 1 year of Perl/ Python or any scripting languages preferred. Desired Qualifications: **Education:** * Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred - Domain knowledge in the area of web server(apache/ tomcat), proxy server and caching technology. - Good understanding of operating systme fundamentals. - Highly responsible, self-diciplined, self-managed, self-motivated, able to work with little or no supervision. - Passiona to understand and learn new technologies and to adopt new processes. - Extensive experienece working on multiple project at a time in a fast paced, results oriented environment.