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GitLab is looking for motivated engineers to help grow our test automation efforts across the entire GitLab platform. This is a key software development position with a new and growing team, so your efforts will have a noticeable impact to both the company and product.
We are excited to find candidates who have a passion for high quality software, enjoy collaborating with other teams, and are methodical problem solvers.
Responsibilities
Expand our existing test automation framework and test coverage.
Develop new tests and tools for our GitLab.com frontend, backend APIs and services, and low-level systems like geo replication, CI/CD, and load balancing.
Work with the product team and other development teams to understand how new features should be tested, and then engage them in contributing automated tests.
Work with engineers to define and implement mechanisms to inject testing earlier into the software development process.
Identify and drive the adoption of best practices in code health, testing, testability, and maintainability. You should know about clean code and the test pyramid, and champion these concepts.
Analyze complex software systems and collaborate with others to improve the overall design, testability and quality.
Strive for the fastest feedback possible. Test parallelization should be a top priority. You see distributed systems as a core challenge of good test automation infrastructure.
Configure automated tests to execute reliably and efficiently in CI/CD environments.
Track and communicate test results in a timely, effective, and automated manner.
Requirements
Strong experience developing in Ruby
Strong experience using Git
Experience using test automation tools like Capybara, Watir, Selenium
Relevant work experience in software development and/or test automation
Experience working with Docker containers
Experience with AWS or Kubernetes
Experience with Continuous Integration systems (e.g., Jenkins, Travis, GitLab)
You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.