Senior Software Engineer In Test

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

What you'll do

• 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.
• Analyze complex software systems and collaborate with others to improve the overall design, testability and quality.
• Create new test frameworks and strategies for the team
• 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.
• 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.

What you'll bring

• Experience using test automation tools like Selenium, Capybara and/or Watir
• Experience working with infrastructure-as-code and infra tooling like Kubernetes, Terraform and Ansible (if you've worked with similar, that's great too!)
• Strong experience using Git
• Experience working on public cloud (GCP, AWS or Azure)
• Experience building and implementing test frameworks from scratch
• Strong experience developing in Ruby or Golang (or another OOP language)

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

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Growth and development budget
• Home office support
• Team Member Resource Groups
• All remote , asynchronous work environment
• Parental leave
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

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.

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity . Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

Colorado/Washington pay range

$110,800 — $213,800 USD

California/New York/New Jersey pay range

$110,800 — $237,600 USD

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