Software Engineer in Test/Senior Software Engineer in Test at GitLab Inc.

What You'll Do In This Role

• You’ll work on test automation issues related to the Quality department, stage & group you're embedded in, and the entire GitLab product. The work you’ll do will be transparent and open to the GitLab community .
• You’ll 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.
• You’ll identify and drive the adoption of best practices in code health, testing, testability, and maintainability.
• You’ll work with engineers to define and implement mechanisms to inject testing earlier into the software development process.
• You’ll configure automated tests to execute reliably and efficiently in our CI/CD environments.
• You’ll work 1:1 with a Product Manager, and with the wider product and development teams to understand how new features should be tested and to contribute to automated tests for these new features as part of Quad Planning .
• You’ll be responsible for baking in a culture of quality and shifting test automation left in the cross-functional team you're a part of.
• You'll focus on expanding our existing test automation frameworks and test coverage across a range of configurations.
• You’ll work in an environment where we aim to have a 1:10 ratio of Software Engineers in Test to Engineers.
• You'll lead our test automation efforts on new features.

Requirements:

• You’ve got experience developing in Ruby or working on a Ruby on Rails application.
• You’ve got a working knowledge of Docker.
• You’ve worked with industry-standard CI tools like GitLab CI, Jenkins, Bamboo, or Circle CI for example.
• You’re comfortable with Selenium-based test automation tools like Capybara or Watir.
• You’ve got experience with Git and its command line.
• You’re interested in growing your knowledge and skills in Test Environment Provisioning and Configuring (Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, GCP / AWS).
• You know about clean code and the test pyramid, and champion these concepts.
• Our values of collaboration, results, efficiency, diversity, inclusion, belonging, iteration, and transparency resonate with you.
• You'll thrive in an environment where self-learning and self-service are encouraged and instilled as a part of our culture.

Current Openings and Additional Requirements:

• Software Engineer in Test, Runner
• You'll be working on our Runner SaaS category.

You should apply if:

You're interested in a role where you'll be working on UI testing, integration testing, load/stress testing, testing Runners on different environments (such as Linux, Windows, MacOS), and combatting abuse of GitLab CI.

• You meet the criteria outlined in the requirements.
• Software Engineer in Test/Senior Software Engineer in Test, US Public Sector Services

You should apply if:

• You're a US-citizen based on US soil.
• You bring some knowledge of the security compliance landscape or any major third-party frameworks/regulations such as FedRAMP, SOC, ISO, PCI, HITRUST, HIPAA, or GDPR.
• You're interested in a role that focuses on backend automation and tooling for highly secure cloud systems.
• You want to develop your skills in cloud, provisioning tools, and infrastructure technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, AWS, GCP
• You meet the criteria outlined in the requirements.
• Senior Software Engineer in Test, Deploy
• You'll be working on a team that is responsible for minimizing downtime during the process of upgrading a self-hosted version of GitLab. The work you'll do will lead to highly reliable experiences for GitLab instance administrators and their users. Our handbook describes our primary projects in Distribution .

You should apply if:

• You bring significant experience in Ruby, Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
• Contributing to GET and partnering with other open source providers is exciting to you.
• You're willing to work in a role where you'll be leading chaos testing, contract testing, backward compatibility testing, zero downtime testing, and performance testing efforts.
• You meet the criteria outlined in the requirements.
• Software Engineer in Test/Senior Software Engineer in Test, Database
• You'll join as the first SET for our Database group. The Database group is the steward of all relational database technologies at GitLab. You'll be responsible for defining the testing strategy and test automation in the group that enables GitLab to be more performant, scalable, and highly available to our customers.
• Your work will involve chaos testing, contract testing, backward compatibility testing, zero downtime testing, performance testing, and database validation testing.

You should apply if

• You bring significant experience in Ruby & PostgreSQL.
• You meet the criteria outlined in the requirements.
• Software Engineer in Test, Plan
• You'll be focused on the test planning and test automation of Portfolio Management and Design Management features in addition to contributing to our Quality Engineering Roadmap

You should apply if:

• You meet the criteria outlined in the requirements.
• Software Engineer in Test, Fulfillment Platform
• You'll be focused on the test planning and test automation of Fulfillment Platform features in addition to contributing to our Quality Engineering Roadmap .

You should apply if:

• You meet the criteria outlined in the
• You have experience with license and/or subscriptions management or SaaS billing systems or you're familiar with products like Zuora or Salesforce.