Quality Department SET Career Framework: Intermediate

Quality Department Competencies: Intermediate

Engineering Framework | Quality Framework

Intermediates at GitLab are expected to exhibit the following competencies:

• Intermediate Leadership Competencies
• Intermediate Technical Competencies
• Intermediate Values Alignment

Intermediate Leadership Competencies

Engineering

• Assumes goodwill, and is able to disagree and commit.
• Capable of delivering work despite periodical distractions.
• Constructively raises concerns.
• Communicates in a clear, timely, and effective manner.
• Capable of adapting their messaging to technical audience.
• Understands organization structure and processes.

Intermediate Technical Competencies

Quality

• Quad Planning & Test Coverage
  • Perform quad planning and improve test coverage in collaboration with other Software Engineers in Test
  • Help create test strategy and implement test automation for new and existing features.
  • Identifies gaps in functional test automation, document missing coverage, and add new test automation to improve coverage.
• Test Stability & Triage
  • Participate in test pipeline on-call rotation and ensure that pipeline failures are triaged, addressed and communicated in a timely manner.
  • Help unquarantine flaky tests.
  • Work with the counterpart group to address test failures due to bugs in code.
• Test Tooling
  • Contribute to test stability in production and non-production environments.
  • Contribute to new test framework tooling and provide feedback to new approaches proposed by the team.
  • Improve deploy processes, deployment scripts, and build pipelines in collaboration with other Software Engineers in Test.
• Test Environments
  • Grow your knowledge of GitLab provisioning and setup tools. Examples include Omnibus, the Orchestrator, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Helm Charts, GCP, or AWS.
• Task Management & OKRs
  • Owns tasks within an OKR.
  • Regularly manage project schedules ensuring objectives are aligned with team/department goals.
  • Exercises judgment and independently identifies the next steps.
• Knowledge Sharing
  • Clearly document process and knowledge in collaboration with other team members.
• Domain specific expertise
  • Demonstrate domain specific responsibilities within their assigned product group

Intermediate Values Alignment

GitLab

• Adhere to the Collaboration Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Results Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Efficiency Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Iteration Competencies for this job grade.
• Adhere to the Transparency Competencies for this job grade.

Intermediate Career Matrix Worksheet

Template for Intermediate Career Matrix Worksheet can be found here.

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