Senior Engineering Manager
Pubblicato il 15-10-2026 - Kong in Varese
Overview In this senior role, you lead Kong’s global Quality Engineering for flagship runtimes, shaping an AI-driven testing framework. You drive a transformative SDET organization and the next-generation, intelligent test substrate leveraging LLMs and autonomous test agents. You partner with product and engineering to embed testability early and establish enterprise-grade QE metrics. This role combines hands-on strategy with cross-geo leadership to raise testing standards across high-performance data planes. Responsabilità * Lead and grow a geographically distributed SDET organization across NA, Europe, and Asia * Define and execute the AI testing roadmap, including autonomous test agents, test case generation, and self-healing scripts * Set quality strategies for low-latency data planes (C/Lua/Rust) and modernize CI/CD-driven test automation * Oversee end-to-end, performance, regression, and chaos testing within CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes)
* Promote shift-left quality and governance by embedding testability into architecture with product management and software engineering * Define and monitor QE health metrics (CI reliability, automation coverage, defect density, time-to-triage, release stability) Requisiti fondamentali * 10+ years in software engineering/SDET with a track record in enterprise test automation * 4+ years in engineering management leading distributed or global SDET teams * Hands-on vision for integrating AI/LLMs, generative AI, or autonomous agent frameworks into software quality workflows * Operational excellence in follow-the-sun cadence, vendor partnerships, and cross-timezone execution * strong leadership and mentoring * cross-functional collaboration * strategic thinking and roadmap execution * AI integration with LLMs and autonomous agents * test automation framework design for performance/chaos testing * CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes