Test Automation Engineer at GitLab Nigeria

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We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Test Automation Engineer

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• GitLab is looking for a motivated and experienced engineer to help grow our test automation efforts across the entire GitLab ecosystem.
• This is a key position with a new and growing team, so your efforts will have a noticeable impact to both the company and product.
• In addition to the requirements below, successful candidates will demonstrate a passion for high quality software, strong engineering principles and methodical problem solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Expand our existing test automation framework
• 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
• Drive adoption of best practices in code health, testing, testability and maintainability. You should know about clean code, the test pyramid and champion these concepts.
• Analyze complex software systems and collaborate with others to improve the overall design, testability and quality.
• Ensure that automated tests execute reliably and efficiently in CI/CD environments.
• Ensure test results are tracked and communicated in a timely and effective manner

Requirements

• Strong experience developing in Ruby
• Strong experience using Git
• Experience with test automation tools like Capybara, Selenium
• Relevant internship or 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)

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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