Recent Job Vacancies at GitLab Nigeria, 9th April ,2019

GitLab Inc. is a company based on the GitLab open-source project, helping developers collaborate on code to build great things and ship on time. We are an active participant in our global community of customers and contributors, trying to serve their needs and lead by example. We have one vision: everyone can contribute to all digital content, and our mission is to change all creative work from read-only to read-write. We value results, transparency, sharing, freedom, efficiency, frugality, collaboration, directness, kindness, diversity, boring solutions, and quirkiness. If these values match your personality, work ethic, and personal goals, we encourage you to visit our primer to learn more.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Test Automation Engineer

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• 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.

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)
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.

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.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online