Software Engineer, DevOps

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Since being founded in 2001, Black Line 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.

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As a Staff Software Engineer, 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 lead the planning and implementation of test strategy for Blackline's Cloud journey. You will play architect innovative technical solutions that drive automation across the entire QE organization.

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.

• Drive creative and innovative technical concepts to automate workflows from ideation to operational tools that are reusable, maintainable and efficient.
• Provide thoughtful leadership on the multi‑cloud implementation and migration plan of enterprise SaaS application.
• Design and drive execution on the detailed test strategy on the cloud journey.
• Identify and assess risks and develop mitigation steps and processes to be put in place for projects, while collaborating on technical designs, dependencies management, and efficacy of valid test data to ensure successful and high‑quality deliverables.
• Consult on automation tools/techniques, feasibility and implementation, process improvements as well as maintenance plans.
• Execute Quality Engineering (QE) forensics and detailed root cause analysis of test failures, and performance and scalability issues.
• Provide strong end‑to‑end leadership in the definition and building of automation frameworks and continued push for providing value.
• Demonstrable top‑quality experience with integration, performance, regression, stress, and acceptance testing with a focus on web applications.
• Provide strong 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.
• Author high‑quality test plans, test cases, and supporting documentation.
• Grow and evolve the testing processes to ensure tests are customer‑like and representative of real‑world scenarios.
• Collaborate with Operations leadership, as well as other stakeholders, to ensure that all technical specifications are clear and follow the established processes and standards.
• Partner with Network, Database, Ops, Info Sec and other teams in evaluating performance issues and solutions.

• Master's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science or related disciplines. 10+ years of hands‑on experience in Web Application, SaaS, and RESTful API testing.
• 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).
• 5+ years of solid technical leadership with extensive experience in…