Business Analyst

About the Company:

Alyke, recognized as India's first friendship app, is revolutionizing the way people find friends online through its innovative matching algorithm. Alyke has quickly gained traction, surpassing 1 million users. This platform uniquely connects individuals based on shared interests and proximity and stands out for its commitment to creating a secure environment that encourages users to express themselves freely. Joining Alyke offers the chance to be part of an innovative team dedicated to reshaping the landscape of social connections.

Role Overview:

As a Senior Quality Assurance (QA) at Alyke, you will lead the QA team to ensure the delivery of high-quality software products. You will be responsible for developing and implementing QA strategies, overseeing all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met. This role requires a combination of strong leadership skills and a deep understanding of QA methodologies in a fast-paced startup environment.

Role Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Senior QA Engineer with strong experience in mobile application testing and automation to join our fast-paced product team. In this role, you’ll help shape the future of Alyke by ensuring our Android and iOS apps are robust, scalable, and delightful to use. You’ll be instrumental in establishing strong testing practices, mentoring junior QAs, and driving test automation across platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute test plans and detailed test cases for mobile and web applications.
• Own test automation strategy and execution for Alyke’s mobile apps (iOS & Android) — strong hands-on experience in Appium is a must.
• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and designers to ensure high-quality releases.
• Lead efforts on regression, performance, exploratory, smoke, and compatibility testing.
• Build and maintain test frameworks and CI/CD integrations to ensure faster release cycles.
• Triage issues effectively and ensure that critical bugs are identified, documented, and resolved.
• Mentor junior QA team members and help instill a quality-first mindset across the engineering team.
• Analyze logs, crashes, and performance metrics to detect edge cases and instability.

Required Skills and Experience

• 3–6 years of experience in software testing, with a strong focus on mobile app testing.
• Strong command of automated testing tools like Appium (required), Selenium, TestNG, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with mobile app testing on both Android and iOS.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Experience with bug tracking and test management tools (e.g., JIRA, TestRail).
• Solid understanding of REST APIs, databases, and debugging tools such as Charles Proxy, Postman, or Firebase.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Bonus: Knowledge of performance testing, security testing, or experience in startups.

Why Join Alyke?

• Be part of a product that’s transforming how people connect and build friendships.
• Take ownership in a high-impact role on a small but growing team.
• Competitive compensation and equity options.
• Work in a culture that values autonomy, transparency, and collaboration.
• Flexible work environment with remote-friendly culture.

Application Process: If you're excited about leading a team to ensure the quality of a product that brings people together, we'd love to hear from you. Please submit your resume, cover letter, and a link to any relevant work or projects you have worked using cutshort.

Looking for Guest Management Team: (Immediate Joinee Required)

Ideal candidate will be an enthusiast, with a right approach to learn and grow.

Primary KRA:
a) Support & Guidance to our Guests via Calls | Chats | Email
b) Lead Management – CRM (for sale closures)
c) Competition Analysis, New Campaigns & Site updates
d) Data & Trend Analysis
Mandatory skills: strong communication and convincing skills, go-getter.

Job Description:
- Manage proper database of leads pipeline & follow-up for closure
- Manage our Chat Platform: real time chats with guests to resolve their queries & drive conversions
- Mail Lead: Outbound calling to the consumers who have shown interest in our services
- Close tracking of competition offers, our site offers and analytics

What we offer: A great learning experience across different business verticals, Very Strong Mentors with about 10-15Yrs of industry  experience, flexible working hours, family working culture, start-up environment.

• Work closely with design, product management, and development teams to create elegant, usable, responsive, and interactive interfaces across multiple devices.
• Turning UI/UX designs into prototypes, creating awesome interactions from designs, writing reusable content modules, and maintainability of the code.
• Implement UI development principles to ensure that the product client-side serves at scale.
• Review and optimize usage by monitoring key metrics and rectifying the issues proactively.
• An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment and bring in optimal flow for rapidly changing design/ technology.

• 3 to 6 years of relevant work experience as a web developer, UI developer, JavaScript expert, or frontend engineer
• Sound knowledge in JavaScript, ReactJS, HTML, CSS
• Familiar with UI layouts, SASS, bootstrap, and Material UI
• Experience debugging using popular JavaScript-based tools like Chrome Developer Console

• Knowledge of TDD frameworks mocha, chai, jest etc.
• Understanding of Typescript
• Understanding of ReactJS based frameworks like NextJS, Gatsby, etc.
• Understanding of REST API
• Passionate to create good design and usability

• Experience as a SAP Consultant with at least one end-to-end SAP implementation project.

• Hands on experience in the requirements gathering/ fit-gap, design/blueprinting and configuration/customization phase of SAP transformation programs.

• Deep understanding of business processes as well as good knowledge of technical issues in the area of financial modules.

• Very good command of English.

• Team management and project management skills as an asset.

Job Summary

• Excellent hands-on experience with Go lang (if not Golang, in either JAVA, DotNet and/or NodeJS)
• Write CRONs and background tasks required for the growth of business and product
• Build REST APIs as required
• Ability to code using design principles
• Write reusable code and libraries for future use
• Have the working knowledge of Microservices Architecture using Docker
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders in executing various new and existing ideas
• Possesses the knowledge of developing and deploying in Linux environments
• Passion for building great products and loads of energy.

Key Skills
Skills that we would be more than happy for a dev to have: - Worked in CI/CD environments - Developed code using TDD/BDD approach. - Worked with Virtualization on Linux (KVM) - Experience in working in Agile development environment 

About You

We’re looking for exceptional Engineers with an amazing breadth and depth of technology expertise! If you’re the kind of person that looks at the bigger picture and want to build something that has a real impact on the end user, go ahead and apply for the position.

Ability to see the big picture but still love to code!

Strong in backend languages, such as Java, DotNet or NodeJS!

Familiar with client-side frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue etc.

Strong HTML/CSS skills – you understand not only how to build the data, but how to make it look great too.

Knowledge of architectural design and you like to build something scalable and flexible to support business

Agile or Scrum is your favorite development approach.

And when we start talking about performance, security and unit testing? Well that’s music to your ears

• Develop embedded Linux Applications
• Work with a worldwide team to integrate the product to meet the requirement

Required Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science from a top-tier institution
• Relevant full-time work experience of 4+years
• Strong foundation in computer science, Object-Oriented software, unit testing & test automation with scripts
• Ability to self-teach.

Mandatory Technical Skills:

• Expert level programming in C/C++
• Linux systems programming, data structures & algorithms
• Networked applications

Desirable Technical Skills:

• Linux Board Bring up, device drivers would be an advantage

My Digital Shelf is an expanding and highly entrepreneurial start-up research and production company producing B2B conferences for the global Digital Retail and Consumer goods industry

The role of the Marketing Manager will be to perform general duties to support event planners, project managers and the Global Event team

• Social media daily management - primariliy linkedin and Twitter 
• Digital marketing - SEO, PPC advertising and more 
• Website content develpoment and management
• Copy writing for press releases, website and ad-hoc pieces
• Market research including competitot analysis and performance improvement 
• Liaising with external media agencies and association for advertising campaigns and barter agreements/partnership opportunities 
• Liaising with suppliers including printers, design agencies and publications
• Reporting directly to the Director and planning the event calendar with them
• Ad hoc support to team including assisting with events management and promotional activity
• Maintain production schedules for event materials/collateral
  Work on event follow-up and Event Metrics and Analysis

Candidate requirements:

• Graduated to degree level or equivalent in your chosen discipline, ideally Marketing, Social Sciences, Humanities, Languages or similar
• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Ability to work under pressure and meet demanding deadlines
• Confident and mature approach, reflective of the profile of the position and organisation

• Ability to work independently and show a strong sense of initiative, taking ownership of key projects when required with a proactive attitude
• Ability to multitask, prioritise and be flexible is essential
• Works well as part of fast-paced team, prioritising effectively and managing workload
• Excellent IT skills - proficient in both Windows and Mac operating systems (i.e. PowerPoint, Keynote, Excel, Word, Outlook)
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills both verbal and written, able to successfully interact with all parts of the business and stakeholders at all levels
• Excellent organisational, analytical and administrative skills, meticulous attention to detail
• Flexible in approach and able to amend hours as required to suit business needs
• Able to work with confidential material and sensitive information with absolute discretion