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Careers at Guardian Analytics

Guardian Analytics is an early stage venture backed company located in downtown Los Altos, California, developing advanced algorithms and applications for the financial services industry and online service companies to detect and prevent online fraud. Be part of the initial team and apply your knowledge and experience with advanced technologies to an important real world problem.

Interested candidates for the job openings below can submit resumes to .

Due to the volume of resumes, we apologize in advance if we can only respond to candidates who match our current criteria and openings. Principals only please. Agency resumes are not accepted unless prior written permission and a signed contract is on file and will be considered unsolicited resumes not subject to placement fees.

Senior Professional Services Engineer
Quality Assurance Engineer

Senior Professional Services Engineer

You will provide consulting at all levels including process assessments, training, implementation, and best practices support. In addition to directly supporting customer deployments, you will work with the engineering team to develop tools and operational processes that will reside at Guardian Analytics.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Work in a consulting environment providing clients with implementation services.
  • Leadership role in deployment of multiple projects end-to-end.
  • Provide system optimization services including upgrades, performance monitoring and system audit tasks.
  • Design and implement integrated solutions involving Guardian Analytics and customer systems.
  • Must be an excellent listener, communicator and presenter. This role requires the ability to educate, consult and influence at many different organizational levels.
  • Provide customer technical support including troubleshooting and problem resolution.
  • Complex systems and data analysis. Define data flows, systems and operational processes to support integration, data processing and analysis requirements.
  • Experience working in a small, dynamic company.
  • Must be willing and able to travel.

Required Experience

  • 5-7 years experience in consulting services engagements, preferably in both a large Systems Integrator/Software Vendor and start-up environment.
  • Experience in implementation of vendor-based enterprise and systems software solutions at customer sites.
  • Strong systems administration experience on Windows and Linux servers and ability to consult with customer on hardware configurations.
  • Experience deploying high performance, mission critical, real time systems. Strong analytical and business-process skills and the ability to apply them to technical solutions.
  • Working knowledge of Oracle and MySQL installation and administration for enterprise class applications and systems.
  • Working knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL). Ability to design simple schemas, write queries and generate analyses and reports.
  • Analytics skills are a plus. Ability to understand and analyze data.
  • Experience with server side Java desirable.
  • Experience with scripting languages (Perl, PHP, Shell Scripting).
  • Strong understanding on Internet technologies and web-based applications.
  • Strong understanding of integration technologies.

Quality Assurance Engineer

You will have a key role in designing and developing an integrated SQA process, framework and tests from scratch to ensure Guardian Analytics' analytics-based fraud prevention applications are released to market on time and with a high standard of quality. Working from the backend real-time event processing (multi-threaded Java) and DB layers (Hibernate, Oracle, MySQL) through the front end Web Application layer (DHTML, JS, AJAX, JSF, Java Application Logic), your mission will be to define and execute an overall SQA methodology that results in a high level of satisfaction for our users. Specifically, you will:

  • Define and implement a test framework to support efficient functional, regression, performance, high availability and stress test for Java server and database.
  • Design and execute a test for Web based GUI application, create and maintain automated test suite to support multiple browsers types
  • Work with product management and software engineering to define test plans and schedules for each product release
  • Define and develop the test cases and follow through with hands-on test execution
  • Define and execute integration test for the complete system
  • Contribute to product design to ensure testability and robustness of products and features

Required Experience

  • BS/MS in CS or equivalent with at least 5 years of software quality assurance experience testing and releasing mission critical enterprise applications
  • 2+ years programming or designing and developing complex automated test scripts
  • Strong Oracle and/or MySQL DB scripting skills
  • Excellent Unix and Windows knowledge
  • Knowledge of multi-tier architectures, Java-based systems, relational databases
  • Expertise in backend API and DB testing methodologies
  • Experience with large scale performance, fault tolerance and scalability testing
  • Experience designing and implementing flexible and robust automated test frameworks
  • Excellent written, verbal & interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic small company environment.
  • Passionate about quality and relentless in getting to the root cause of a problem yet pragmatic and efficient in approach.
  • Resourceful, flexible, and able to solve complex problems.
  • Prior start-up experience strongly preferred
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