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

📌 Senior Engineering Manager - Test Function (Pavia)
🏢 Kong
📍 Pavia