Test Automation Engineer at GitLab Inc.

Job Descriptions

• This position is remote based.
• 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)
• Ideally we are looking for someone with security testing experience, however, this isn't a prerequisite for an application 
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.

Compensation
Please view the compensation range for this role at the bottom of the position description.