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Our Quality team’s mission is to empower our teams to ship world class enterprise software at scale, with quality and velocity. By working closely between the broader Quality team and product teams, you’re pivotal to ensuring Quality is everyone’s responsibility which ultimately leads to better software for our customers.

We are looking for a Software Engineer in Test (SET) to join the Quality team work on the GitLab Dedicated product. There are currently no SET’s in this group so you’ll have the opportunity to define the testing strategy, advocate for testing needs and also build the tools required to support your day-to-day tasks.

The platform you’re working on is infrastructure heavy, so we are looking for someone who has a lot of experience working with infra tooling like Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes. We don’t mind if you have less experience with testing tooling, we can teach you that!

Here are some helpful links if you want to learn more:

• Quality department page
• GitLab Dedicated page
• SET Job family (the full job description)

• The GitLab Performance Tool: Tests the server performance of GitLab environment 
• The GitLab Environment Toolkit: A provisioning and configuration toolkit for deploying GitLab’s Reference Architectures with Terraform and Ansible 

What we need you to know:

• Coding infrastructure automation experience with Ansible and Terraform, and comfortable with managed Kubernetes platforms.
• Experience with various cloud provider systems (e.g. GCP, AWS).
• Experience with Continuous Integration systems (e.g., Jenkins, Travis, GitLab)
• Experience with Debian and RHEL based systems
• Experience developing in Ruby and use of Git
• Experience using test automation tools like Capybara, Watir, Selenium

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.

Hiring process

Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process. As a result an interview can be canceled at any time even if the interviews are very close (e.g. a few hours apart).

• Candidates will be invited to complete a technical assessment from our Recruiting team.
• Qualified candidates will be invited to schedule a 45 minute screening call with our Recruiting team.
• Next, candidates will be invited to schedule a 45 minute first interview with the Hiring Manager.
• Next, candidates will then be invited to schedule a 1 hour technical interview with a Senior Test Automation Engineer.
• Next, candidates will then be invited to schedule a 1 hour peer interview with two Engineers in the Quality department.
• Finally, candidates will be invited to schedule a 45 minute interview with the Head of Quality.
• Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via email

Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.

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