Principal Software Engineer in Test

Company: Anaplan
Location: Austin
Posted on: April 8, 2021

Job Description:

Anaplan, the Connected Planning pioneer, is changing the way the world's most respected companies do business. We believe in clear, open communication enabling teams to overcome obstacles and move forward together. We want you to feel that you belong to a team, you matter, and are able to be your authentic self. We all work together to deliver business value with the power of Connected Planning at every level within every organization, and alongside an ever-growing number of users, a rich partner ecosystem, and active community. At Anaplan, our values are key to everything we do. We call it #AnaplanLOVE

At Anaplan these words come to life by making employees feel empowered and inspired.

Building a strong culture around company values is an ongoing journey

that will continue to be the core of our existence.

At Anaplan, we are looking for self-motivated Principal Software Engineers to join our global Developer Infrastructure Test Frameworks team in San Francisco, CA, or Austin, TX. This is an opportunity for you to work for a high-growth company that is leading the way in enterprise planning. We look for exceptional Engineers of all levels, regardless of your language(s) of choice - really smart, passionate people who believe in simplicity, agility, and performance and who can choose and use the best tools for the job.

In the role of Principal Software Engineer in the Developer Infrastructure Test Frameworks team, you will be working on testing automation and developing tools and frameworks that our QA and Engineering partners across the organization can leverage to write and execute tests in our Continuous Integration system efficiently.

Prior experience with test automation, testing frameworks, working with Jenkins, delivering platforms at scale, and operational excellence to commercial enterprise customers is preferred. We have a long list of incredible benefits and are serious about attracting the best technologists in the industry. You'll be working with passionate people who are pushing the JVM and distributed computation to its limits.

Located in the heart of the SOMA district, you can feel the excitement and energy of what we do at Anaplan when you step into our San Francisco office. We're a high-growth company developing best-in-class solutions to planning at an enterprise scale. Our customers rely on Anaplan as an always-on shared source of truth as they navigate the constant change and planning required to stay on top in the marketplace-we're pioneering the Connected Planning discipline to help the business make decisions more quickly and decisively than ever before.

We're looking for someone who thrives in a changing environment and has a desire to develop a deep understanding of our system and excited to solve challenging problems at scale while delivering new capabilities to our rapidly growing number of customers. If you value writing sustainable, resilient code and want to help foster a collaborative, inclusive, creative, authentic culture - this is the place for you!

This role is an immediate full-time position. If you're ready to roll up your sleeves and tackle unique problems that no one is solving in the tech space yet, keep reading.

What You'll Be Doing

• Work on a complex build system that must connect with AWS/GCP in a Kubernetes environment that's highly scalable.
• Identify SDLC strengths and weaknesses to develop a test strategy through each step of the process.
• You will be architecting and evangelize the automation test framework as a service to increase efficiency for an engineering team.
• Working with development teams to identify, architect, and implement automation opportunities to ensure quality releases of our platform services.
• Facilitate test automation meetings, escalating issues/concerns to the project management team, test leads, or managers as required.
• Build multi-system test environments and automated test suites with JAVA, Selenium, Cucumber, Puppeteer, and similar technologies via the CI system.
• Excellent knowledge of SDET/QA methodology & software development processes.
  
  Technologies You'll Work With
  
  • Jenkins
  • Harness
  • TestRunner
  • SoupUI
  • Selenium
  • Puppeteer
  • Cucumber
  • JUnit
  • JMeter
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
    
    More About You
    
    • BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
    • Professional experience as an SDET crafting various automation framework from the ground up
    • Experience with building and maintaining a SaaS product at scale
    • Experience with Junit, Blazemeter or Jmeter, TestRails, TestEngine
    • Experience with testing frameworks like Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin
    • Experience with Junit, TestNG, EasyMock, Swagger, SoapUI
    • Experience with Public Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
    • Knowledge or experience with Jenkins, TravisCI, Drone, or CircleCI a plus
    • Experience working with containers and container orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes also
    • Knowledge or experience with messaging systems such as Kafka is a plus
    • Experience with Java, Spring frameworks, multi-threading, and caching techniques
    • Design, implementation, and deployment of scalable API services
      
      Our diversity and inclusion commitment
      
      Build your job in a place that thrives on diversity, inclusion and belonging. We believe in maintaining a hiring and working experience in which all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your true self to work every day!
      
      Our story
      
      Anaplan is a cloud-native enterprise SaaS company helping global enterprises orchestrate business performance. Our customers come first to create heroes, unlock potential & build trust and confidence. We challenge legacy thinking and software that isn't flexible for the modern organization. We have architected the only platform that will take the time from planning to decision down to zero.
      
      We're building a truly unique technology. From our calculation engine and in-memory data store, to apps and predictive analytics; amazing technology is being developed every day.
      
      We're addressing a $100B/year problem that all global businesses face. Our mission is to break the traditional business planning mold, currently performed through spreadsheets or legacy systems.
      
      Anaplan's Connected Planning platform is enabling customers to improve decision-making by turning response time into real time, to make better decisions to enhance your business. The platform helps you dynamically orchestrate performance enterprise-wide, and convert constant change to your environment.
      
      See what our global customers and partners have to say about Anaplan's platform is solving some of the most complex challenges in business. CEOs, analysts, and the press agree-Anaplan is changing the way the world does business. Learn about our history, see our recognitions and achievements, and take a look at what it's like to work at Anaplan. Get to know more about working at Anaplan by checking out our social channels.
      
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