Senior Software Engineer Test
- Pleasanton, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Driving performance related initiatives (framework definition, best practices and KPI's) across BlackLine.
- Collaborate with Development and QA Automation groups to ensure consistent improvement in application performance in the development cycle.
- Collaborate with Production Operations on infrastructure performance analysis and correlate with end-user experience.
- Collaborate with technical and business leadership to define, collect, analyze and publish key application performance metrics.
- Define, develop and conduct performance tests on critical functionality, isolating bottlenecks, and fine-tuning performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Creating comprehensive benchmark tests for identifying application and system performance.
- Analyzing results and provides comprehensive reporting and works closely with architects, developers and operations team to log defects for performance requirements that are not met.
- Identify action items to resolve issues and improve performance and availability.
- Identify opportunities to improve monitoring tools and techniques for application performance.
- Provide trend analysis over time and forecast performance bottlenecks before they manifest in production.
- Extensive knowledge and experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling, CloudTest, LoadComplete or other similar tools.
- Experience with a variety of infrastructure monitoring and operations tools for Windows Servers, IIS and .NET applications, MS SQL Server, VMWare, networking, load balancing, SAN storage, and Internet access.
- Knowledge of systems engineering or administration field, covering both Windows and Linux/Unix platforms.
- Deep knowledge of and experience with web technologies and architecture including, but not limited to, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax, REST, and SAML.
- History and desire to continually learn new tools and technologies for tracking, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale web applications.
- Solid analytical skills and knowledge of statistics, with the ability to quickly and accurately identify trends in statistical data.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively summarize and present data analysis, root cause action items and resolutions in person and using slides, for multiple audiences (i.e. technical, managerial, and business).
- Outstanding hands-on problem-solving skills, technical leadership and mentoring qualities.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in enterprise-grade production environment.
- Previous experience with a variety of performance testing tools and technologies.
- Master's degree in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent experience (10 years).
- 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.