Software Engineer - UI Test

ABOUT THE TEAM
The mission of the UI Test team is to ensure best-in-class UI experience for Rubrik products. The team accomplishes this by testing and automating customer workflows, providing UI automation infrastructure for end to end validation and benchmarking, checking usability and user experience and consistency across the features and products. Key stakeholders are product component teams, product management, release managers and end customers.

The key responsibilities of the team include qualifying new features for production release and leading UI release regression qualification across Rubrik's on-prem and cloud products. We do manual and automated testing, including developing the test infrastructure needed. We build and use AI-native skills that automate the entire testing lifecycle, starting from generating the UI test plan to executing them in real environments. 

ABOUT THE JOB

UI Test team responsibilities:

• Feature qualification:
1. The UI Test team qualifies new features from the end-user point of view (UI) for all Rubrik products before rolling out to production. We make sure every feature adheres to the quality standards and integrates well with the rest of the product. 
2. Maintains high quality bar in test processes, strategy and test execution.
• Release regression testing: 
• 1. All released features are regression tested in every release, on a cadence that depends on the product, with both manual and automated UI testing.
• Automation: 
  1. New features enter the automation backlog after release and are picked up by priority. UI Automation using browser automation frameworks such as Playwright. 
  2. Infrastructure automation/maintenance using Python.
  3. Automated test pipelines in a CI/CD system
  4. Each phase of the testing life cycle is getting automated. Using AI-assisted tooling to generate test cases from product artifacts, execute them against real environments to reduce manual qualification effort.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field
• 5-8 years of experience in software testing, UI testing and automation
• Solid understanding on data protection, storage, security, virtualization, databases, cloud, kubernetes and generative AI
• Familiarity with UI performance and accessibility testing.
• Working knowledge of microservices, API, cloud native architectures and how to test them
• Experience with Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), cybersecurity, AI resilience. A cloud certification is an advantage.
• Deep experience in driving complete test life cycle (test planning, execution, automation) and release qualification. Test management using TestRail or equivalent is a plus.
• Good hands-on experience programming in Python or equivalent and UI automation using TestIM, Selenium, Playwright or equivalent. JavaScript/TypeScript knowledge is a plus.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding or testing assistants in test authoring, debugging or automation, and sound judgment about the quality of their output.
• Hands on experience in creating, triaging and maintaining automated test pipeline using Jenkins, GitHub or similar CI/CD tools
• Strong written and verbal communication, including documentation that others can pick up without a handoff.

Key differentiating factors:

• Due to the unique placement of the team, it is exposed to multiple key technologies of Rubrik products. 
• This opportunity is not just another manual testing or automation role, key factor is the exposure and opportunity to learn core technologies of data protection, storage, security, anti ransomware, Virtualization(Hyper-V, VMware), Databases (SQL, Oracle, Mongo, DB2), cloud technologies (Azure, Google, AWS), Kubernetes, and cutting edge features involving Generative AI etc.
• Exposure to automated infrastructure creation and clean up on various platforms like VMware, Azure, AWS etc.
• Hands-on work with AI-based tools for test authoring, execution and automation.
• Automation using latest AI based tools 
• Every team member is given equal opportunity to lead releases on a rotational basis giving them opportunities to learn the release process and develop their leadership skills.
• Ownership opportunities: every member in the team irrespective of the designation has end-end ownership right from PRD review, test case development, interaction with key stakeholders( like Product manager, program managers, component managers and developers), execution and reporting
• Opportunity to become a quality advocate for the assigned component and product, and develop expertise in the assigned areas.
• This is a high visibility team as every feature of every product of the company has to be qualified by this team

ABOUT RUBRIK

Rubrik provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, or disability. In addition to federal law requirements, Rubrik complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.