Jenkins test: Pre-employment screening assessment to hire the best candidates

Summary of the Jenkins test

This Jenkins test evaluates a candidate's proficiency in administering CI/CD infrastructure. This screening test will help you hire a Jenkins expert who can plan and deploy Jenkins, correctly configure it, ensure high availability and disaster recovery, monitor health, and troubleshoot issues.

Covered skills

  • Planning and installing Jenkins

  • Managing Jenkins

  • Building in Jenkins

  • Securing Jenkins

Use the Jenkins test to hire

DevOps engineers, IT engineers, build and release engineers, software developers, QA/test engineers, system administrators, release managers, site reliability engineers, and IT operations.

Type

Programming skills

Time

10 min

Languages

English

Level

Intermediate
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About the Jenkins test

Continuous integration and continuous delivery become a de facto standard in software development. Therefore, hiring a skilled DevOps professional who can build a reliable CI/CD infrastructure will bring irreplaceable advantages to your business.

This test evaluates candidates’ abilities to plan and deploy Jenkins, correctly configure it, ensure its high availability and disaster recovery, monitor its health, and troubleshoot the issues. It will also check the candidate’s ability to create pipelines to automate the software-building process and integrate different tools into it.

Additionally, this test will evaluate the candidate’s ability to use security best practices to build a well-protected and invulnerable instance of Jenkins.

This screening test will help you identify DevOps engineers who can build the foundation for the efficient operation of your developers. Candidates who do well on this test can be considered experienced IT engineers who can help your business benefit from the advantages of Jenkins.

This Jenkins test is relevant for infrastructure teams responsible for configuring pipelines and deployments. Candidates scoring high on this test have practical experience and a strong understanding of all aspects of the Jenkins server.

The test is made by a subject-matter expert

Riley F.

With more than six years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, Riley specializes in Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines. Her expertise extends to a wide array of tools, including Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and Git. Riley finds mentoring younger engineers especially rewarding, and she regularly shares her knowledge by writing articles about optimizing Jenkins and other tools.

When not at work, Riley enjoys working on her science fiction novel and hiking in the mountains with her two dogs.

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