Senior Engineering Manager - Test Function

Kong · Milan

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Company
Kong
Location
Milan
Employment type
Full-time
Posted
August 7, 2026

About this job

As the Senior Engineering Manager, you will serve as the global leader for Quality Engineering across Kong’s flagship runtime platforms (AI Gateway, API Gateway, Event Gateway and Mesh). This is a high-visibility, transformative leadership role. Beyond overseeing our distributed global SDET organization, you will be the primary architect of Kong’s next-generation AI-driven testing strategy. You will spearhead the transformation of our quality engineering function from traditional automation to an intelligent, agentic, self-healing test substrate, using LLMs and automated prompt/agent loops to test the very infrastructure powering the AI era.

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Median salarygross / year
€41,500
€36,500Typical range€49,000

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