Sr. Software Engineer, Test

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 1, 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.

Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine

BlackLine¯SaaS is the system of interaction for finance and accounting teams and it integrates with numerous ERPs, CRMs, Payment systems, Point of Sale systems and other applications. 

As a Sr. Software 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 automating tests for web-based, mobile 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. 

• - Ensure the best quality is maintained and deliver the infrastructure as a product for BlackLine. - Work with the SRE team to implement an equivalent QE system to bring in the needed changes. - Build and support continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and continuous testing activities - Improves the BlackLine SaaS service experience by discovering and highlighting optimization opportunities with existing code or architectural design to address application availability, performance, observability, efficiency, and security challenges. - Develops tools and systems to automate the identification, analysis, and remediation of application events, infrastructure issues, or requests. - Build from scratch/POC tools and technologies to align with QE’s vision.

Education: degree in Mathematics, Computer Science or related disciplines  

Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:   

• 5+yrs relevant testing experience from product company
• Experience testing in Google Cloud/AWS/Azure or similar cloud providers
• Strong experience in testing Infrastructure as code.
• Experience with Continuous Integration, Continuous delivery, and related tools and technologies
• Experience with Containerization and docker-related technologies
• Experience with Kubernetes and related technologies
• Basic knowledge of Software programming in Object Oriented languages
• Strong working knowledge of Atlassian tools such as Jira, Jenkins
• Exposure to Azure DevOps, proven track record and experience with support of Enterprise Azure SAAS (.Net applications)  applications hosted in app service plans - Serverless App services and Function apps, Observability tools , Application insights, exposure to KQL
• New Relic with monitoring of Azure services. Scripting – Python, PowerShell and Azure CLI, YAML
• FinTech or Financial services domain background. 

• FinTech or Financial services domain background. 

• 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.