Automation QA Engineer/SDET

• Strong Lead Search Engineer / AI-ML Leader Profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have minimum 6+ years of hands-on experience in Search / Information Retrieval / NLP / Machine Learning
• Mandatory (Experience 2) - Must have minimum 5+ YOE in backend development using languages (Python or Java)
• Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have Experience designing taxonomy, ontology, tags, thesaurus, and metadata models
• Mandatory (Experience 4) - Must have Experience with Big Data frameworks (Hadoop, Spark) for search/ML workloads
• Mandatory (Experience 5) - Must have Hands-on experience with AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Keras, Spark ML).
• Mandatory (Experience 6) - Must have experience in designing, building, and scaling RESTful APIs and Web Services.
• Mandatory (Experience 7) - Must have hands-on experience in statistical tools (Python, R, SAS, or open-source libraries).
• Mandatory (Experience 8) - Must have Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (CosmosDB, Cassandra, MongoDB).
• Mandatory (Company) - Product Companies (Preferrably high search volumes companies like Flipkart, Amazon, Zepto, Zomato...etc)
• Mandatory (CTC) - The CTC breakup offered will be 80% fixed, and 20% variable, as per Company policy

Preferred

• Preferred (Experience) - Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks (React, Angular, HTML5, CSS3).
• Preferred (Tools) - Must Hands-on with dev tools: Eclipse, Git, Gradle, Jenkins, Jira, JFrog Artifactory and web servers (Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss).
• Preferred (Education) -BE /B.Tech /M.Tech

Job Specification – Recruitment Lead

Experience: end-to-end recruitment experience, including niche and leadership hiring.

Domain Knowledge: Strong exposure to IT hiring, preferably within the Salesforce ecosystem.

Technical & Process Skills: Proficient in sourcing, headhunting, ATS management, and recruitment analytics.

Stakeholder & Team Management: Skilled in managing business leaders and driving recruiter performance.

Networking & Market Insight: Capable of building talent pipelines and leveraging industry networks.

Communication: Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and presentation skills.

Agility & Ownership: High adaptability with a fast paced & high results-driven and process-oriented approach.

KRA will involve-

End-to-End Hiring – Manage full-cycle recruitment to ensure timely and quality closures within a TAT of max 45 days.

Niche & Leadership Hiring – Independently manage Salesforce niche, senior, and confidential mandates through headhunting.

Team Performance – Lead and drive consistent results with 3 successful joining's per recruiter per month.

Process Compliance & Excellence – Ensure adherence to hiring process, data accuracy, ATS upkeep, candidate verification, and defined process flow.

Recruitment Strategy – Design and execute effective sourcing and hiring strategies.

Talent Pipeline – Build and sustain a strong Salesforce talent network for future needs. Coach team members on follower development on LinkedIn for pool creation.

Strategic Projects – Lead initiatives like ATS implementation, salary benchmarking, and employer branding.

• Consultant/freelancing role
• Design and build advanced high-quality applications in .Net,.Net Core, Azure or AWS. hands on programming on C#, Web API, NOSQL DB and Azure, AWS.
• Knowledge of software development life cycle.
• Able to handle and manage the projects independently.
• Should be hands on developer and write production level code flawlessly
• Will be involved in client interactions and gathering project requirements, suggest best solutions considering NFRs insights
• Someone with an ability to ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Ability to work within a rapidly evolving environment.
• Eager to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Bring new ideas and technologies to the team that can improve our product or process.
• Help maintain code quality, unit test cases, documentation, etc

Merkle|Sokrati, a leader in Paid Search & Social Advertising, provides a sophisticated technology solution to efficiently manage Digital Marketing campaigns for several brands in India. The technology developed takes a beating of serving and tracking 20M+ impressions a day. It runs crunching algorithms and keyword discovery routines using distributed computing, housing the entire data in distributed caches and sharded MySQL databases.

To be a geek at Merkle|Sokrati you need to know how to build scalable and high-performance systems. Nothing at Sokrati is small. We start with a proof of concept that demands a traffic rate of 10M+! To achieve any of this you need to understand Distributed Systems, Distributed Caching, High-scale Databases. And we possess the skills to create software that makes this entire heterogeneous system function together even if it runs on 100 boxes. A system that is so widely used cannot sustain any downtime and hence it uses elegant high-availability techniques to survive an outage. Not many startups can say “been there, done that”!

@Merkle|Sokrati, you will:

• Implement solutions for broadly defined problems
• Drive best practices and engineering excellence
• Be involved in the development of code in object-oriented languages like Java etc and build large scale robust distributed systems
• Be involved in full fledged product development.
• Build New Features, Push them to production fast.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Build services or APIs which will for easy application integrations at Sokrati to develop applications faster.
• Build scalable/fault-tolerant backend systems that process and analyze billions of data points every day.

You'd fit right in if you have:

• 2-4 years of experience in building successful production software systems
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BE/BTech or MS in Computer Science)
• Experience developing software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
• Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++) and open-source technologies (Linux, Spring)
• Proven ability to work in a fast paced, agile and in an ownership and results oriented culture

If you are excited about:

• Having an unmatched startup experience that allows you to work on bleeding-edge technologies.
• Making a splash in a multi-billion dollar Digital Advertising industry
• Learning & Growing far beyond your current horizon
• A place full of like-minded & ridiculously smart folks
• A start-up culture that you'd cherish forever in your work life

Feel like you are a good fit? We would love to hear from you!

Job Description :

- This role is responsible for Implementation, one of the most critical phases in a client's life cycle.

- We are looking for an experienced and driven Director, Implementation who is responsible for applying expert knowledge of implementation and large project processes while providing strategic direction to minimize time to first value for all customers.

- As the Director, Implementation, you will manage a growing team and develop processes and procedures for enterprise implementations.

Responsibilities :

- Take proactive ownership of regional implementation health.

- Create scalable processes and definitive scope around implementation services

- Implement systematic processes for tracking and reporting on the implementation status

- Maintain a highly skilled team of Implementation Managers and manage team allocation to maximize resources and output

- Direct the activities of the implementation team to meet client needs and create successful partnerships

- Lead team to complete process analysis, design/redesign of multiple workflows and processes to ensure that they are customer-focused, consistent, effective and efficient and in compliance with company standards

- Develops and manages all deliverables needed for effective implementation to include but not limited to: detailed project plan/timeline, action log, meeting notes, process/procedures and forms documentation, etc.

- Own execution of the roll-out within the allotted implementation timeframe

- Full ownership and accountability of customer satisfaction and on-time delivery throughout the Implementation phase

- Provide support to Account Executives & Sales Engineers during the Sales cycle

- Ability to speak knowledgeably on all technical integration options available within an implementation

- Facilitate hand-off from Sales to Implementation

- Connect regularly with all team members and provide strategic guidance, feedback on performance, and remediate as needed

- Monitor the progress of each account at a deeper level

- Ensure all metrics are accurate and up-to-date

- Advocate customer needs/issues cross-departmentally

- Understand and manage escalations efficiently and appropriately

- First point of contact for all inquiries on project status from executive leadership

- Recognize risks and puts remediation plans in place, interfaces directly with clients escalates to exec level when needed

- Partner with global teams on solutions, process enforcement, and overall regional health

Qualifications :

- 15-18 years of experience working with global enterprise customers in software implementation or Project Management type role at a SaaS company

- 7-10 years experience in a supervisory or managerial role; People leadership of direct and indirect reports

- Bachelor's degree;

- Previous experience as a Manager, Implementation for enterprise software

- Proven track record of successful implementation with enterprise clients

- Highly developed project management skills

- Ability to influence and guide clients through complex implementations

- Strong leadership skills; ability to lead a group of diverse individuals in a high-performance team

- Demonstrated presentation and client-facing skills

- Superior presentation skills; experience with presenting to C-level Executives

- Experience in client services/operational roles and ability to effectively counsel clients and internal business partners

- Analytical skills to determine root causes and develop solutions

- Understanding of sales, marketing, client relations roles, and their interdependence

- Demonstrated ability to adapt to a fast-paced and changing the technical environment

- Self-starter seeks out challenges

- Flexible