Big Data Engineer

Job Title : Senior QA Automation Architect (Cloud & Kubernetes)

Experience : 6+ Years

Location : India (Multiple Offices)

Shift Timings : 12 PM to 9 PM (Noon Shift)

Working Days : 5 Days WFO (NO Hybrid)

About the Role :

We’re looking for a Senior QA Automation Architect with deep expertise in cloud-native systems, Kubernetes, and automation frameworks.

You’ll design scalable test architectures, enhance automation coverage, and ensure product reliability across hybrid-cloud and distributed environments.

Key Responsibilities :

• Architect and maintain test automation frameworks for microservices.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and observability of test systems.
• Work closely with DevOps and Cloud teams to streamline automation infrastructure.

Mandatory Skills :

• Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Linux
• Cloud Platforms : AWS / Azure / GCP
• CI/CD Tools : Jenkins, GitHub Actions
• Scripting : Python, Pytest, Bash
• Monitoring & Performance : Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, K6
• IaC Practices : Terraform / Ansible

Good to Have :

• Experience with Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd).
• Container Security or DevSecOps exposure.

GradRight is an ed-fin-tech company committed to driving transparency and accountability in the global higher education sector. 

We are the world's first platform that integrates 'Selection' with 'Financing'. and brings students, banks, and universities into a SaaS environment to make smarter decisions. Using data science, technology, and strategic partnerships across the industry, we enable students to find the “Right University” at the “Right Cost”. We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best-fit universities and financial offerings by 2025.

Our flagship product - FundRight, is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. In just two years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on $ 1 Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 120 Million in loans. We are India's largest single pipeline of education loans and are poised to scale up globally.

Our second product, SelectRight, is the world's first MarTech SaaS platform that redefines how students select the right colleges and how colleges find and engage with the right students.

GradRight is a Delaware, USA-registered company with a wholly-owned subsidiary in India.

Brief:

Obsession with customer needs, passionate about customer experience, and thrive on data - if you resonate with these, then we’d love to hear from you. As a product manager, you’ll be the voice of reason for our entire product ecosystem. You’ll join a fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design and deliver products aligned with the company’s vision and strategy.

Responsibilities:

1. Collect and analyze customer needs, collaborate with key stakeholders to ideate and deliver compelling solutions that create incremental value for customers
2. Create buy-in for product vision across all stakeholders
3. Develop positioning strategies that can drive growth and improve market share
4. Create and maintain detailed product requirements and roadmap
5. Create and track product success metrics and use them to identify problems and opportunities to pursue
6. Work with designers to build wireframes, validate and translate them into full-blown designs
7. Collaborate with engineering teams to drive feasibility analysis and refine product requirements
8. Work closely with engineering teams to deliver the roadmap while optimizing for time-to-market
9. Own the design <> engineering teams hand-off, release timelines, and work with business teams to plan and execute product launches
10. Evaluate marketing and sales strategies to ensure that they are in line with product strategy
11. Standardize the product design process and evangelize the same across all stakeholders

Requirements:

1. At least 6 years experience as a product manager at a B2C startup, with war stories to share
2. Proven track record of managing all aspects of product development lifecycle
3. Strong understanding of software development workflows and ability to work with top-notch engineering teams
4. Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
6. Strong presentational and public speaking skills
7. Bias for experimentation and ability to ask the right questions

Good to have:

1. Both B2C and B2B experience, preferably on marketplace-like initiatives
2. Exposure to edTech and/or finTech domains
3. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
4. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Data Engineer with strong experience in Python programming and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to join our data engineering team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) data pipelines. The role involves working with various GCP services, implementing data ingestion and transformation logic, and ensuring data quality and consistency across systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable ETL data pipelines using Python.
• Work extensively on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services such as:
• Dataflow for real-time and batch data processing
• Cloud Functions for lightweight serverless compute
• BigQuery for data warehousing and analytics
• Cloud Composer for orchestration of data workflows (based on Apache Airflow)
• Google Cloud Storage (GCS) for managing data at scale
• IAM for access control and security
• Cloud Run for containerized applications
• Perform data ingestion from various sources and apply transformation and cleansing logic to ensure high-quality data delivery.
• Implement and enforce data quality checks, validation rules, and monitoring.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other engineering teams to understand data needs and deliver efficient data solutions.
• Manage version control using GitHub and participate in CI/CD pipeline deployments for data projects.
• Write complex SQL queries for data extraction and validation from relational databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL.
• Document pipeline designs, data flow diagrams, and operational support procedures.
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Required Skills:

• 4–8 years of hands-on experience in Python for backend or data engineering projects.
• Strong understanding and working experience with GCP cloud services (especially Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Cloud Composer, etc.).
• Solid understanding of data pipeline architecture, data integration, and transformation techniques.
• Experience in working with version control systems like GitHub and knowledge of CI/CD practices.
• Strong experience in SQL with at least one enterprise database (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc.).

React.js, Java Script, Redux, React,React.js,Angular,Frontend Developer, UI Developer, Full Stack Developer

• Work experience as a Python Developer
• Expertise in at least one popular Python framework (like Django, Flask or Pyramid)
• Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM)
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (like JavaScript and HTML5)
• Team spirit
• Good problem-solving skills
• Write effective, scalable code
• Develop back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
• Integrate user-facing elements into applications
• Test and debug programs
• Improve functionality of existing systems
• Implement security and data protection solutions

• B.Tech/MTech from tier 1 institution
• 8+years of experience in machine learning techniques like logistic regression, random forest, boosting, trees, neural networks, etc.
• Showcased experience with Python, SQL and proficiency in Scikit Learn, Pandas, NumPy, Keras and TensorFlow/pytorch
• Experience of working with Qlik sense or Tableau is a plus

Job Description:

• Creation and execution of content strategy across social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, etc.) adhering to the brand's requirements and guidelines
• Develop engaging, creative, innovative campaigns and content for regularly scheduled posts, which enlighten audiences and promote brand-focused messages

Technical Skills required:

• Working knowledge on prominent social media content updation dashboards.
• Understanding of key social media engagement metrices.
• Working knowledge of MS Excel and MS Power point. Good hands on knowledge on MS Excel is a plus.

Other requirements:

• Ability to work in a small yet closely-knit team and be willing to go an extra mile to help colleagues in time of need.
• Keenness to learn new things and grow.
• Good communication skills. May be required to speak to clients directly often.
• Ability to put across own PoV.
• Agreement to work long hours and even on weekends if required during peak work load periods. These would be seldom though may occur.
• Jovial and hardworking nature.