Software Engineer in Test

This position is based in Munich, Germany

The area: Chrome and Apps

The web is what you make of it, and the Chrome and Apps team is helping the world make more of the web. From open-source pros to user-experience extraordinaires, the team develops products like Chrome OS, Gmail and Google Docs that help users connect, communicate and collaborate with others. Our consumer products and Enterprise platforms are giving millions of users at homes, businesses, universities and nonprofits around the world the tools that shape their web experience -- and changing the way they think about computing.

The role: Software Engineer in Test

At Google we approach testing differently -- we are testing, and breaking, code constantly, but we help rebuild it better. Software Engineers in Test (SET) design Google's testing infrastructure and write code to examine and validate large-scale software development and deployments. As an SET, you partner with software developers to create and code tests concurrently with product development. You build tools that help developers be more productive, write better code and test it themselves. Troubleshooting is an understatement, it's more like trouble-forecasting.

Responsibilities:

• Build advanced automated test suites to exercise our world-class applications.
• Work with the development and test engineering teams to automate testing.
• Conduct research on emerging technologies.
• Analyze and decompose a complicated software system and design a strategy to test this system.
• Train and mentor other team members.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or related technical field. In lieu of degree, relevant skills or equivalent experience.
• Experience in development and/or test automation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Excellent coding skills in C/C++.
• Good scripting skills in at least one common language (JavaScript, Python, Perl).
• Demonstrable knowledge of UNIX/Linux environments.
• Understanding of the design and implementation of compilers and virtual machines.
• Experience with fuzz testing.