Senior Software Engineer, Test - Blackline

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing!

At BlackLine, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.

Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.

Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.

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As a Software Developer Engineer in Test, you will play a crucial role in the success of our company by contributing to, as well as driving, high-quality releases and value-delivery to our customers. In this role, you will be testing web-based applications and RESTful APIs to support our high-transaction and big-data SaaS applications. Your attention to detail, tenacity, creative problem-solving and forward thinking will directly impact the company's success, as well as the success of your peers across the organization. By following and evangelizing quality standards, as well as overall SDLC processes as they relate to quality, you will be able to affect meaningful change in the organization and help drive our culture to a quality and customer-first mentality.

• Author detailed test plans, testcases and maintain them by closely collaborating with all stakeholders.
• Evolve the testing process to ensure tests are strong customer-centric and representative of real-world scenarios.
• Provide strong end-to-end testing and nonfunctional such as performance, scalability, and load testing.
• Conduct in-depth root cause analysis of test failures, customer-reported defects, and issues related to performance, scalability, and document prevention steps.
• Periodically review test coverage gap analysis and improve the test coverage.
• Automate manual test scenarios to improve efficiency and ensure stability.
• Address and resolve issues identified during automated test runs across various environments promptly.
• Perform code reviews for SDETs to maintain quality standards.
• Work in tandem with QE, product, and engineering leaders, along with other stakeholders, to clarify user stories, product requirements, technical details, and acceptance criteria, ensuring adherence to best practices and standards.
• Proactively identify and address gaps, issues, or concerns, suggesting and implementing improvements to processes and workflows.
• Embrace and promote Agile and Scrum methodologies daily, championing the Quality Engineering process.
• Conduct post-deployment release validation to ensure the deployed features function as intended.
• Develop prototypes and proof of concept to assess new technologies.

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in test automation development using Java/C#, out of which 5+ years of hands-on experience in for Web-based applications.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related disciplines.
• Exceptional in Object oriented programming languages such as C#, Java with strong understanding of algorithms and data structures.
• In depth knowledge of test automation (API, UI) with strong programming experience.
• Prior hands-on experience with tools such as Selenium, JIRA, Postman, are strongly preferred.
• A good command of SQL, capable of handling stored procedures, understanding data models, and navigating transactional flows.
• Practical experience in testing web applications, SaaS platforms, RESTful APIs, and SQL databases.
• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous deployment tools such as Jenkins.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well with engineers, SDETs, and Dev Ops/SREs, as well as other teams across the organization.
• Creativity and a willingness to explore new technologies.
• Positively adapts to changes with a flexible mindset.
• Outstanding problem-solving abilities, strong organizational skills, and proficiency in task prioritization.
• Strong ownership, pride of work, and ability to take things across the finish line.
• Prior working experience in Agile, specifically SCRUM, is preferred.
• A preference for candidates with experience in Model-based Testing (MBT) and the testing of Machine Learning/Generative AI models.
• Should be able work in different geographical time zones, depending on the need with offshore teams.

• FinTech or Financial services domain background
• Good knowledge of internet security issues in software design and code. 
• Experience with ERP systems like MS Dynamics-365, Oracle, NetSuite, Intacct is a plus 
• Experience with open source tools. 
• Experience with public cloud architectures (Azure, ASW or GCP) and cloud native services. 
• Experience designing and scaling high performance systems. 
• Experience with container management solutions like Mesos, Kubernetes or Nomad. 
• Experience with API gateway, identity management, authentication, messaging platforms (e.g: Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ), workflow orchestration tools, job scheduling and search. 
• FinTech or Financial services domain background. 
• Prior working experience in Scrum, or other Agile development methodologies, is preferred.  
• Experience with front-end technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JavaScript Frameworks, etc.) is a plus. 
• Experience with data integration and middleware software tools is a plus 

• A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!
• A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
• A culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.

BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.

BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 2 days a week.

Placement within this range depends upon several factors, including the applicant's prior relevant job experience, skill set, and geographic location. In addition to base pay, BlackLine also offers short-term and long-term incentive programs, based on eligibility, along with a robust offering of benefit and wellness plans.