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An overview of this role
SET's at GitLab partner directly with Engineering teams to help improve the quality of the code they're shipping by embedding testing into the build as early as possible. It's an exciting time to join the Quality team as we're starting to move towards SET's taking on more infrastructure-related work, so you can expect to be also working on things like infrastructure-as-code, provisioning and monitoring as well as test automation!
Some tools the Quality team have built
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 you'll do
Create new test frameworks and strategies for the team
Work closely with the product engineering team to ensure Quality is embedded from the start
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.
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.
What you'll bring
Strong experience developing in Ruby or Golang (or another OOP language)
Strong experience using Git
Experience using test automation tools like Selenium, Capybara and/or Watir
Experience building and implementing test frameworks from scratch
Experience working on public cloud (GCP, AWS or Azure)
Experience working with infrastructure-as-code and infra tooling like Kubernetes, Terraform and Ansible (if you've worked with similar, that's great too!)
About the team
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.
How GitLab will support you
Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
All remote , asynchronous work environment
Flexible Paid Time Off
Team Member Resource Groups
Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Growth and development budget
Parental leave
Home office support
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
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