Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design and build advanced hybrid mobile applications using React Native
• Lead the application development effort by being the SPOC
• Build hybrid apps using React Native for Android/iOS
• Publish apps to corresponding App store/Play store
• Implement new technologies to maximize application performance and optimize load time
• Collaborate with the back-end developer to build the RESTful APIs
• Research on emerging technologies and trends
• Participate in the planning and design of future software and technical architectures

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands on experience in the full life cycle of Hybrid mobile application development including publishing one or more apps to the play store & app store
• Must have developed Hybrid Mobile application using React. Hands on Working experience of React Native is a must.
• Experience developing back-end services preferably with NodeJS.
• Experience in developing apps on native Android/iOS platforms is a plus
• Experience in designing and working with n-tier architectures (UI, Business Logic Layer, Data Access Layer) along with some experience with service-oriented architectures (SOA)
• Strong skills in RESTful web services
• Experience with Agile methodologies would be helpful

Looking for candidate with minimum 2+ Years of experience in Codeignitor, Laravel

Full stack developer who is capable of managing the entire development life cycle

• Create elegant, efficient and maintainable software to support and extend our current products.
• Solve complex architectural challenges when implementing new features.
• Integrate with databases, file systems, cloud services when delivering scalable solutions.
• Troubleshoot and fix reported customer issues, delivering software patches as needed.
• Assisting in making design decisions based on performance, scalability, security, and future expansion.
• Communicating and collaborating with management, product, QA teams.

What will help you thrive in this role? 

• Degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• Proficiency in web development using any of the languages: PHP,  NodeJS or Golang.
• Should possess a solid grasp of object-oriented programming, system architecture & design, databases, development, and testing methodologies.
• Good in Design (HLD and LLD).
• Good in Database schema design.
• Good to have experience with AWS or Google Cloud or Azure and serverless architecture.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Track record of delivering successful products as an engineer.
• Experience with large applications of some scale will be a plus.
• Ability to deep dive, understand & improve the legacy code.
• Domain knowledge of supply chain & retail industry is a plus.

About OpsCruise

Digital business is driving a fundamental shift to cloud-native applications, creating a new set of operational and performance challenges ill-suited to the currently available solutions. At OpsCruise, we imagine a world of autonomous operations and are innovating a fundamentally different approach to performance management. OpsCruise’s vision is to automate the performance assurance of cloud applications using a model-driven closed-loop platform.

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Team

The OpsCruise team represents a global and talented team that includes domain experts in IT Operations, Networking, Storage, Hyperscale Systems and AI/ML that have built market-leading solutions at companies such as Cisco, Google, Hitachi, HP, Infoblox, Oracle and VMWare among others.

Our engineering culture values creativity, pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

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Role

We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer who will join our team building and rolling out our SaaS platform in the cloud AI/Ops space.

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Our Technology Stack

Our product involves the following technology areas with one or more tools in use in each area:

1. Container technologies, including creating Docker plugins and extensions
2. Serverless technologies including instrumentation, addons
3. Orchestrators including Kubernetes, OpenShift, Mesos, Swarm
4. Metric generation and collection including Prometheus and tools such as Dynatrace and Datadog
5. Tracing including OpenTracing, Jaeger
6. Graph tools and Databases including neo4j, JanusGraph, TinkerPop/Gremlin
7. TimeSeries databases such as Prometheus, OpenTSDB
8. NoSQL and Indexing tools such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Solr and Elastic
9. Languages including Java, Scala, Javascript, Python, R, and Go
10. Messaging tools including Kafka, Akka
11. Big Data tools including HDFS, YARN, Spark, Flink
12. AI/ML techniques including Statistical Analysis, Classification, Deep Learning, etc.
13. Cloud services: AWS, GCP, and Azure, their services in databases, networking and ML tools
14. High performance User Interfaces including AngularJS, Vue, D3.js and local stores
15. Authentication and Authorization including tools such as Okta and KeyCloak.

Responsibilities

1. Understand user level requirements, write up the test strategy, derive test plan and test cases in detail.
2. System and integration testing with automation of test cases using Python or Java.
3. Use test frameworks such as Robot Framework.
4. Use traffic generator tools such as JMeter for performance testing
5. Set up the target test environments in AWS, Azure or GCP
6. Containers based environment setup with Kubernetes and Docker, monitoring tools setup with Prometheus
7. Debug incidents and issue to narrow down to a root cause
8. Understand and reproduce internally issues reported by customers

Qualifications

The ideal candidate must have the following qualifications.

1. B.E/B.Tech Degree from a reputed institution with at least 4 years of relevant experience.
2. Hands-on experience with test automation using Python or Java.
3. Experience with test frameworks such as Robot Framework or TestNG.
4. Traffic generation tools usage such as curl-loader or JMeter
5. QA engineers for Networking Technology products such as switches, routers, L4-L7 products testing can also apply.
6. Knowledge of public clouds, AWS, Azure or GCP, is desired
7. Working knowledge in Kubernetes, Docker or Openshift environments required
8. Hands on experience with Linux
9. Strong problem solving and debugging abilities
10. Familiarity with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins or CircleCI
11. Interest in machine learning (ML) and data science is a plus

Most importantly, you should be someone who is passionate about building new and innovative products that solve tough real-world problems. 

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LOCATION

Chennai, India

• Circuit Design (Schematic Entry), Digital, Analog & Power.
• High-speed PCB Layout Design, up to 8-Layer, routing high current tracks (up to 30A)
• Experience on “Altium Designer” will be added advantage.
• Experience with ARM processors & AVR Controllers will be preferred.
• Preparing Design and test procedure documentation.
• System integration and Testing.
• Hardware Troubleshooting.
• Awareness of PCB Fabrication & assembly Processes.
• Awareness for component procurement, finding substitutes.
• Design transfer to production by defining production processes.
• Assist production for optimizing operations components sourcing, troubleshooting.
• Interact with PCB Design team.
• Interact with hardware team/consultants in India, USA
• Should have leadership qualities for handling a team.
• Communication with Component manufacturers/vendors for part choices & design support.
• Preparing documentation for design, for design transfer to production, for submittal to various labs for certifications
• B.E (Electronics and communication, Instrumentation and Electronics, E.E.E)

In Brief
Urgent Hiring • Re-location Required
Company Founded 2018 • 1-5 employees
Internet and Technology Startup • Bootstrapped

About us
Based out of Egypt and with presence in the GCC, Quesst Technologies is an early Internet and Tech Startup committed to helping thousands of nationals, residents and travelers in the MENA region, saving them time and effort in seeking reliable and credible knowledge within their communities and localities.

Quesst, the company's flagship platform, is a hyper-local Q&A and knowledge sharing platform that offers the necessary infrastructure for users seeking information to meet, share, engage and interact with one another and with verified subject matter experts.

Who we're looking for
Ideally the successful candidate will have experience in the start-up world and is in a position for a new challenge to take this company to the next level. Someone who is passionate about delivering a scalable and highly performant state-of-the-art cloud-based platforms built with technologies utilizing the JavaScript ecosystem, AI/ML and the latest web technologies to help solve exciting real world problems.

We are looking for an agile and entrepreneurial leader with strong people leadership and technical capability who has a problem-solving and analytical aptitude, excellent communication and presentation skills, is familiar with statistics, has a business acumen, independent, positive can-do attitude, and passion for excellence to the workplace.

Your role and our tech stack
Reporting to the founder, you will be expected to develop, deploy and oversee the execution of the tech strategy, product road-map and operations to ensure alignment with our businesses goals as we grow and scale. You will play a key part in the organisation's success, taking the current MVP and developing it further to move the company through to early stage funding and into profit.

Quesst's is built using React.js [Frontend], Node.js [Backend], PostgreSQL [DB], Amazon EC2 [Application Hosting], Amazon S3 [Media Storage Service], and Amazon SES [Email Sending Service]. You will be responsible for implementing full-stack features and collaborate with other team members to plan each sprint. You’ll be working across the entire system architecture and be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining restful APIs, micro-services and databases.

Your key responsibilities

• Develop, improve and optimize the structure, quality, and extensibility of current software technologies, codebases and databases
• Prototype ideas to quickly access viability and iterate based on feedback from the team
• Build robust, web-based applications interacting with databases, file-systems and APIs
• Write custom code or integrate open source technologies as needed to find solutions to problems
• Design and build effective APIs; Create servers and databases for functionality
• Design client-side and server-side architecture; Design the data model ensuring scalability
• Accurately translate screen designs into functional front-end code; Develop features and with a mobile responsive design
• Write high-quality, extensible, testable and reusable code and libraries; Conduct code reviews and establishment of best practices
• Participate in planning activities; Estimate accurate stores for new features and design product features
• Help define processes and build tools as needed to scale the solution and the team
• Create and lead the product road-map; Proactively breakdown work, manage development sprints, identify risks and explore solutions
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency; Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software; Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving
• Steer the business on timescales, prioritization and costs on competing development requirements
• Drive rigorous, and weekly product releases and lead required integration efforts with partners and/or third-party software services
• Guide the development in design, architecture and platform choices with strong focus on quality, speed, stability and scalability
• Identify and establish best practices and frameworks keeping in mind parameters of performance, responsiveness, security, maintainability, extensibility, and reuse; Work collaboratively in a lean and agile environment; Write technical documentation
• Recommend and implement new technologies, improvement of existing tech and set-up and future-proofing our technology that can help the company optimize efficiency and productivity and lead edge thinking and knowledge of innovative technologies i.e. AI, ML, blockchain, etc..

Your qualifications

• Minimum of BSc in Computer Science/IT/Electronics/Software Engineering or a comparable degree program
• Proven experience of 2-5 years of full-stack development of web applications; 2+ years building front-end interfaces with React.js & Redux workflows and 2+ years building back-end and maintaining server applications on Node.js, PostgreSQL and designing APIs
• Expert in traditional web-dev stack (HTML5, CSS3, JS); Strong in core JavaScript (ES5, ES6, ESNext, TypeORM and Typescript) and JS object model
• Experience with Linux environments and using the shell and command line terminals (preferred)
• Professional coding experience in object-oriented and scripting languages; Extensive experience building client-side web applications using React
• Proficient with:
  • JavaScript Frameworks (ReactJS/NextJS/Redux) and Node.js Frameworks (Express.js)
  • Client-side MVC frameworks such as NodeJS, React JS, NextJS, Redux, and AngularJS; Knowledge of isomorphic React
  • Configuration of various servers to run web application servers, databases, etc.; Web server technologies like Nginx, NodeJS, Apache, etc.
  • Frontend CSS frameworks like Bootstrap, Material UI and preprocessors like SASS and SCSS/LESS
  • Writing and integrating middleware; Experience with Redux Saga and Thunk
  • Architecture, design, queries of Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL and other RDBMS)
  • Modern JS tooling (NPM, Webpack, Babel, ESLint and Prettier)
  • Developer tools, such as Visual Studio Code
  • Code versioning tools and Git version control systems (Github); Containerization systems (Docker)
  • Strong in data structures, XML technologies, JSON parsing
  • Caching frameworks and mechanisms, work-task queues, transactions and messaging queues (Redis, Memcached, RabbitMQ and others)
  • Building real-time applications using Web Sockets (Socket.io)
  • Web and mobile push notifications and cloud message APIs (GCM, APNS, OneSignal, etc.)
  • Setting up cron jobs and schedule task execution
  • Handling Services, RESTful, APIs, third party libraries and APIs (Google APIs, AWS, Zendesk, etc.)

• Experience with API gateway, distributed infrastructure architectures and applications tuning/profiling; Experience working with microservices
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments; Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment
• Experience with REST API and web service construction, integration and architecture and working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, Authentication and Security Technologies
• Familiarity with building secure systems (OWASP secure coding practices or similar)
• Architect and cloud-deploy applications on AWS and other cloud providers
• Deep understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Build and manage end-to-end and UI tests; Experience writing tests (unit, integration, functional, etc.), and using testing frameworks
• Build third-party integrations like Slack, Stripe, Google and supporting their workflow
• Provision DevOps tooling with continuous integration; Build modern Front-end build pipelines and tools
• Contribute to API documentation including API description languages like Swagger; Document and diagram functional flows and architectures
• Experience in building rich PWA applications; Experience in responsive design, cross browser compatibility and website performance
• Understanding of how browsers and DOM work; Understanding and experience with asynchronous processing, partial page refresh, DOM traversal and manipulation
• Expert level using Web Analytics tools (Google Analytics and others); Experience with open source software development
• Experience with localization and internationalization of applications (working with multi-site setups, multi-language, i18n, etc.)

Some desired extras and good to have skills

• Knowledge of cyber-security, malware analysis, threat detection and/or sandboxing technology
• Preferably has knowledge of working in big data (Spark, Kafka, Hadoop) and machine learning ecosystems
• Strong background in security and data analytics and on-premise data experience
• Experience and familiarity with:
  • Architecture, design, queries and aggregation of NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra and others)
  • Elasticsearch and ELK stack
  • Developing integrations for global OTAs
  • OpenAPI
• Knowledge of multiple backend languages and framework

We offer you

• A unique entrepreneurial opportunity to build something from the ground up and scale it up to a major regionally recognizable brand
• A great learning curve in a collaborative environment with no barriers for initiatives
• Leading compensation package including salary free of local taxes, accommodation allowance for local hire or shared accommodation for international hire, free medical care from company physician, free government healthcare membership, transport allowance, paid airfare to the country of origin, paid leave and end of service according to local labor law.

Your professional career growth opportunities
As you help us grow Quesst, we will help you grow and professionally develop. Joining us at this stage, you will have the opportunity to be part of the core team if you prove you have what it takes and will be given the opportunity to:

• Lead and develop a technical strategy for the company, which involves goal setting, discussing options, and analyzing risks with the management team, CEO and board members
• An opportunity to build and manage a business unit from scratch and scale it up to success at a regional level
• Attract and retain top tech talent, mentor and manage the team as it grows
• Develop and manage KPIs for the tech team and create a challenging work environment

Have we caught your attention?
Send us your application including your resume, salary expectations and earliest starting date.

We’re looking forward to your application!