Manager - Software Engineering

Manager - Software Engineering CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA), one of the world's leading independent, enterprise management software companies, unifies and simplifies complex information technology (IT) management across the enterprise for greater business results. With our Enterprise IT Management vision, solutions and expertise, we help customers effectively govern, manage and secure IT. Customers can evolve their IT operations from being reactive and focused only on technology to being flexible, adaptable and focused on serving the business. Today, CA, formerly known as Computer Associates, serves the majority of the Fortune 1000 companies, as well as government organizations, educational institutions and thousands of other companies in diverse industries worldwide. We are currently seeking a qualified Manager - Software Engineering to lead the team responsible for measuring the performance of products produced by the Wily Technology Division at our office in South San Francisco, CA. The Manager will lead a team of exceptional Performance Engineers who will utilize sophisticated custom built Automation frameworks and software tools written in Java, C#, Jython, and other languages to measure Wily's cutting edge software in distributed environments within aggressive timeframes. The Manager must... * Earn the respect of the team by demonstrating technical prowess and an uncanny ability to understand novel system architectures and pinpoint problem areas with little more than verbal conversation * Possess the insight and forethought to direct the testing efforts to thoroughly uncover bottlenecks and scalability / stability problems before release * Be meticulous and excel in software architecture analysis, operating system principles, hardware architectures, troubleshooting, estimating, resource tracking, risk mitigation, people management, and project management * Have a stellar record of attracting, mentoring, and leading the best Performance Engineers to even greater accomplishments * Oversee the consolidation, analysis, and presentation of performance data in formal capacity planning / sizing guides containing formulas, scenarios, and best practices to the entire organization and provide training to help ensure customer success * Participate in critical customer issues to help troubleshoot real world performance problems in the product to further improve testing and measurement efforts * Focus on developing sophisticated tests to enable Wily to perform the most complex application simulation and comprehensive end to end automation in the industry Key Responsibilities: * Provide technical leadership, career development, and mentoring to team members * Assign areas of ownership; ensure engineers have clear priorities and adequate resources * Maintain high morale and motivate engineers to go above and beyond * Provide accurate scoping for Performance testing releases and establish clear strategies and milestones * Communicate status, risks to test complete dates, and offer mitigation strategies to ensure on-time delivery of all committed projects to cross functional teams * Design and run extensive overhead, scalability, stability, and stress tests using industry standard benchmarks and custom developed software written in Java, J2EE, C#, .NET * Review automation implementations and encourage sound design principles while remaining practical and deadline driven * Review test plans, results analysis, capacity planning guides for in-flight releases * Extend sophisticated automation frameworks in Java * Coordinate reproduction of critical customer situations requiring special performance tests or simulations with the Customer Success Performance Team * Work closely with the Customer Success Performance Team to provide product and automation expertise for use in testing patches, service packs, special projects, sizing, capacity planning, consulting, and training * Coordinate technical presentations and training for capacity planning guides * Report weekly trends highlighting product performance and team status against committed milestones and projects Minimum Requirements: * 7+ years of benchmark testing, performance analysis and tuning with experience developing software benchmarks * 5+ years software development experience with a distinguished track record on technically demanding projects * 2+ years management experience with 5+ engineers * BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science * Outstanding attention to detail and communication skills * Expert ability to analyze / interpret technical data, identify / resolve system bottlenecks, identify potential limitations in software architectures, write clear and concise technical documents, troubleshoot and reason, understanding of throughput, latency, memory and CPU utilization * Expert with web appserver load testing / benchmark software (e.g. ECPerf, WebBench), TCP/IP, networking topology, routers, switches, Network packet sniffers (e.g. Network Monitor, EtherPeek, Observer) * Working knowledge of operating system design / tuning (e.g. Windows, Solaris, AIX), database tuning and administration (e.g. Oracle, DB2), scripting languages (e.g. LoadRunner, TestMaker), Java, C++, C * Considered a plus" if the candidate is familiar with Application servers (e.g. Weblogic, WebSphere, JBoss, NetWeaver), J2EE Technologies (e.g. JSP, Servlets, EJB, JNDI) and ASP .NET Technologies At CA's Wily Technology Division you will be working with top notch talent, where responsibility is more than just your job title, cool technology is growing fast and where software that is being written will be on the market quickly. By joining CA, you'll become part of a highly dynamic enterprise - a lean, transformed organization that is changing the paradigm of IT management and offering opportunities to people who want to carry the ball forward.We offer competitive salary, company sponsored premium Medical/Prescription & Dental Plans, Company-Paid Holidays, Vacation, Personal and Sick Days, 401(k) Plan, Employee Stock Purchase Program, Education/Training Reimbursement, Charitable Gift Program, Adoption Assistance Program, and Veterinary Care Insurance. To learn more about CA and this opportunity, we welcome you to visit our web site at www.ca.com EOE/AA ~CB~ ~m~ Location:   US-CA-San Francisco Status:   Full Time, Employee Job Category:   IT/Software Development Career Level:   Manager (Manager/Supervisor of Staff) Reference Code:   8151   Learn more about CA