Software Quality Engineer for Enterprise Applications

About This Role

BlackLine is seeking a skilled Software Quality Engineer to join our team. As a key member of our quality engineering team, you will be responsible for driving high-quality releases and value-delivery to our customers. In this role, you will automate tests for web-based, mobile applications, and RESTful APIs to support our high-transaction and big-data SaaS applications.

Your Key Responsibilities

• 
  
• Create Web application, Mobile App, and API automation utilizing tools and frameworks already in place to ensure future automation coverage of all features.
  
• Build Mobile App test automation for both IOS/Android using Appium.
  
• Experience in testing Hybrid/Native IOS/Android Mobile Applications.
  
• Build and add to Automation Regression Test Harness.
  
• Experience in testing on virtual emulators using device farms.
  
• Drive improvements and provide recommendations by using or creating tools and contributing to the automation framework already in place.
  
• Independently identify and assess risks and develop mitigation steps and processes to be put in place for projects, while collaborating on technical designs, management of dependencies, and efficacy of valid test data to ensure successful and high-quality deliverables.
  
• Execute Quality Engineering (QE) forensics and detailed root cause analysis of test failures, reported defects, and performance and scalability issues.
  
• Provide technical leadership to other QE staff as the QE discipline and team grows, acting as an agent of change for a quality-first culture within the organization.
  
• Execute on QE compliance objectives and appropriate metrics to measure success.
  
• Assist with defining and implementing quality standards, processes, and procedures that ensure the highest quality deliverables.
  
• Collaborate with QE, Product, and Engineering leadership, as well as other stakeholders, to ensure that all user stories, product definition, technical specifications, and acceptance criteria are clear and follow the established processes and standards.
  
• Author high-quality test plans, test cases, and supporting documentation.
  
• Identify gaps, issues, or other areas of concern, and proactively define, propose, and enact process and workflow improvements to mitigate such issues.
  
• Partner with leadership, peers, and sister-teams throughout the organization to support meaningful change and adaptation, with a constant focus on improving what ̄and ̄of Quality within BlackLine.
  

What You'll Bring

We're looking for someone with a strong background in software quality engineering and test automation, including experience with cloud-based systems and APIs. You should have a solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes and quality engineering principles. A strong ability to communicate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders is essential.

Preferred Qualifications

• 
  
• 7 or more years of hands-on test automation development, with experience building a test automation suite from the ground up.
  
• 7 or more years of hands-on working experience in traditional OOP programming languages, specifically C# ̄(with .NET core and ̄NUnit ̄/ ̄XUnit ̄/ ̄MSTest).
  
• Hands on experience with IOS and Android hybrid/native mobile applications testing and test automation using Appium/Selendroid.
  
• Work closely with Product/UX designers to discuss and give feedback about customer perspective for UI/UX designs from QE.
  
• Hands on experience with testing, analyzing and troubleshooting communication between mobile apps and API.
  
• Configure CI/CD tool to run regression Appium/Selendriod automated tests.
  
• Experience in testing integration solutions for batch, API and event driven architectures.
  
• Experience with testing various integration patterns, styles and technologies and API gateway.
  
• Deep understanding of both technical and non-technical requirements for enterprise SaaS at scale in the areas of system performance, scalability, latency, reliability and security.
  
• Strong testing experience with cloud native/cloud first applications in a cloud environment such as Google Cloud, AWS and Azure.
  
• Experience with Performance test development and Continuous Integration (CI) tools.
  
• Strong ownership, pride of work, and ability to take things across the finish line.
  
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of SQL, including stored procedures, data models, and transactional flows is required.
  
• Fintech or Financial services domain background.
  

What We Offer

BlackLine is 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. We offer 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. We empower BlackLiner's continued growth and learning with 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.

Why BlackLine?

BlackLine is a leader in cloud software for accounting and finance teams. Our software helps companies automate and control the entire financial close process. We're passionate about delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for a talented Software Quality Engineer to join our team. As a key member of our quality engineering team, you will be responsible for driving high-quality releases and value-delivery to our customers. In this role, you will automate tests for web-based, mobile applications, and RESTful APIs to support our high-transaction and big-data SaaS applications.

Your Key Responsibilities

• 
  
• Create Web application, Mobile App, and API automation utilizing tools and frameworks already in place to ensure future automation coverage of all features.
  
• Build Mobile App test automation for both IOS/Android using Appium.
  
• Experience in testing Hybrid/Native IOS/Android Mobile Applications.
  
• Build and add to Automation Regression Test Harness.
  
• Experience in testing on virtual emulators using device farms.
  
• Drive improvements and provide recommendations by using or creating tools and contributing to the automation framework already in place.
  
• Independently identify and assess risks and develop mitigation steps and processes to be put in place for projects, while collaborating on technical designs, management of dependencies, and efficacy of valid test data to ensure successful and high-quality deliverables.
  
• Execute Quality Engineering (QE) forensics and detailed root cause analysis of test failures, reported defects, and performance and scalability issues.
  
• Provide technical leadership to other QE staff as the QE discipline and team grows, acting as an agent of change for a quality-first culture within the organization.
  
• Execute on QE compliance objectives and appropriate metrics to measure success.
  
• Assist with defining and implementing quality standards, processes, and procedures that ensure the highest quality deliverables.
  
• Collaborate with QE, Product, and Engineering leadership, as well as other stakeholders, to ensure that all user stories, product definition, technical specifications, and acceptance criteria are clear and follow the established processes and standards.
  
• Author high-quality test plans, test cases, and supporting documentation.
  
• Identify gaps, issues, or other areas of concern, and proactively define, propose, and enact process and workflow improvements to mitigate such issues.
  
• Partner with leadership, peers, and sister-teams throughout the organization to support meaningful change and adaptation, with a constant focus on improving what ̄and ̄of Quality within BlackLine.
  

What You'll Bring

We're looking for someone with a strong background in software quality engineering and test automation, including experience with cloud-based systems and APIs. You should have a solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes and quality engineering principles. A strong ability to communicate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders is essential.

Preferred Qualifications

• 
  
• 7 or more years of hands-on test automation development, with experience building a test automation suite from the ground up.
  
• 7 or more years of hands-on working experience in traditional OOP programming languages, specifically C# ̄(with .NET core and ̄NUnit ̄/ ̄XUnit ̄/ ̄MSTest).
  
• Hands on experience with IOS and Android hybrid/native mobile applications testing and test automation using Appium/Selendroid.
  
• Work closely with Product/UX designers to discuss and give feedback about customer perspective for UI/UX designs from QE.
  
• Hands on experience with testing, analyzing and troubleshooting communication between mobile apps and API.
  
• Configure CI/CD tool to run regression Appium/Selendriod automated tests.
  
• Experience in testing integration solutions for batch, API and event driven architectures.
  
• Experience with testing various integration patterns, styles and technologies and API gateway.
  
• Deep understanding of both technical and non-technical requirements for enterprise SaaS at scale in the areas of system performance, scalability, latency, reliability and security.
  
• Strong testing experience with cloud native/cloud first applications in a cloud environment such as Google Cloud, AWS and Azure.
  
• Experience with Performance test development and Continuous Integration (CI) tools.
  
• Strong ownership, pride of work, and ability to take things across the finish line.
  
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of SQL, including stored procedures, data models, and transactional flows is required.
  
• Fintech or Financial services domain background.
  

What We Offer

BlackLine is 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. We offer 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. We empower BlackLiner's continued growth and learning with 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.