Senior II Software Development Engineer in Test

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Do you enjoy designing and building software to test and validate BGP, Linux networking, and hypervisor stacks?

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Join our Routing Services Validation team! The Cloud Networking division seeks an experienced Senior II Test Engineer for the Routing Services Validation team.

Benefits at Akamai We support your health, well‑being, finances, and life beyond work. #J-18808-Ljbffr Description Do you thrive on solving complex cloud datacenter networking challenges across a massive, globally distributed footprint?

Responsibilities include defining test strategies, designing detailed test plans, and creating automation frameworks to validate next-generation routing platforms. Responsibilities Designing and conducting thorough end-to-end functional validation for routing services, emphasizing BGP daemons, advanced networking technologies, and core protocols.

Developing, deploying, and maintaining scalable automation frameworks, reusable libraries, fixtures, and tests, while integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines.

Conducting performance, stress, scalability, and resiliency testing with traffic generators, simulating internet‑scale routing, high‑throughput traffic, route changes, and failover scenarios.

Conducting thorough root cause analysis of protocol state machine failures, routing anomalies, convergence issues, and system‑level regressions to enhance software reliability. Contributing to test strategies, enhancing automation coverage, refining testing methods, and reviewing architecture and design to ensure thorough validation.

Qualifications Possess education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Demonstrate expertise in Network Validation, QA Automation, or Systems Testing with applicable and relevant professional experience.

Demonstrate expertise in Layer 2/3 networking, TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6, BGP, routing state machines, attributes, scaling, configuration, debugging, and validation. Develop scalable Python test automation with Pytest and network libraries like Netmiko, NAPALM, Scapy for functional validation and testing.

Leverage high‑scale traffic tools like Spirent, Landslide, Avalanche, or equivalents to validate performance, throughput, scalability, and system resilience effectively. Deploy containerized routing daemons, manage complex network topologies, and create virtual test environments using Docker Compose, Kind, and Linux tools.