Business Analyst

A BIT ABOUT US:

Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.

The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits.

Our business includes Fortune 500 companies with Major brands spread across regions like India, Southeast Asia, Middle East, Japan, US, and expanding rapidly. 

What you’ll do:

In this role, you will work closely with our development team and stakeholders to ensure the highest quality of our software products.

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborate with developers to understand the requirements and design comprehensive test plans for our Python backend and Ember.js frontend applications.
• Design, document, and execute test cases to validate API endpoints and frontend features, ensuring all functionalities work as expected and meet quality standards.
• Implement and maintain automated tests using tools like Cypress, integrating them into our CI/CD pipeline to streamline the testing process.
• Identify, report, and track bugs and issues, working closely with the development team to ensure timely resolution and verify fixes.
• Continuously enhance testing practices and methodologies, proposing improvements to optimise test coverage and efficiency.
• Take ownership of the QA process, acting as the sole QA engineer and ensuring that all aspects of quality assurance are effectively managed.

Your contributions will be crucial in delivering high-quality software solutions, enhancing our product’s reliability, and supporting our commitment to excellence.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute test plans and test cases for our backend APIs and frontend application built using Python and Ember.js.
• Perform functional, regression, and end-to-end testing to ensure the quality of product releases.
• Create, maintain, and enhance automated test scripts
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, product managers, etc.) to identify test scenarios and ensure test coverage.
• Conduct API testing using tools like Postman, Rest Assured, or similar to validate backend services.
• Track, report, and prioritize bugs in collaboration with the development team.
• Collaborate with the development team to ensure that quality assurance standards are upheld throughout the development lifecycle, providing feedback on functionality and testing coverage.
• Continuously improve test coverage and automation efficiency.

Requirements:

• 4-6 years of experience as a QA Engineer or in a similar role, with a strong focus on web applications.
• Proven experience with API testing using tools like Postman or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with Ember.js or experience testing web applications built with similar JavaScript frameworks.
• Ability to take ownership of the entire QA process, being the sole QA engineer in the team, with a strong sense of responsibility and initiative.
• Ability to design, document, and execute test cases effectively to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a keen attention to detail, ensuring that issues are identified and resolved efficiently.
• Experience working closely with development teams to address issues and ensure timely resolution.
• Solid understanding of testing concepts, methodologies, and frameworks.
• Familiarity with automation testing tools, such as Cypress, is a plus.
• A self-starter who is eager to grow professionally and expand their role as the team and company scale.

Work Expectations

Within 1 month

• Participate in KT Sessions: Join sessions conducted by the engineering team to understand the existing QA processes, testing frameworks, and project specifics.
• Familiarize with Tools and Technologies: Get familiarized with the testing tools used in the team, such as Postman for API testing and Cypress for automation.
• Shadow the Development Team: Observe the development and deployment processes to gain insight into the overall workflow and integration points.
• Identify Key Areas for Regression: Work with the engineering team to identify critical areas of the application that are most likely to be affected by changes.
• Document Existing Test Cases: Begin documenting regression test cases based on previously identified critical functionalities and known issues.
• Participate in Sprint Meetings: Attend sprint planning and review meetings to align testing efforts with development cycles and project milestones.

Within 2 months

• Develop Test Plans and Cases: Start creating detailed test plans and test cases for both API and frontend testing, based on the existing documentation and understanding.
• Develop and Execute Regression Test Plans: Start creating and executing manual regression test cases for the core functionalities of the application to ensure they remain unaffected by new changes.
• Perform Manual Testing: Begin executing manual tests for APIs and frontend features to reduce the load on engineers and ensure thorough testing.
• Review Existing Automation with Cypress: Assess the current Cypress automation setup handled by the frontend team. Identify areas for additional test coverage or improvements

Within 3 months

• Lead Testing for New Features: Take ownership of manual testing for new features and enhancements, ensuring they meet quality standards before release.
• Join requirement analysis and gathering sessions alongside the engineering team to gain a deeper understanding of feature development
• Expand Regression Coverage: Enhance the regression test suite by including additional test cases as new features are added and as the application evolves. Continuously update and maintain the regression test suite to reflect changes in the application and ensure comprehensive coverage.
• Conduct Regression Testing: Implement the regression test suite as part of the QA process for new feature releases, ensuring that the stability of the existing application is maintained and any issues are promptly identified and addressed.
• Drive Process Improvements: Propose and implement enhancements to testing processes, tools, and methodologies based on your experience and observations.

Personality traits we really admire:

• Great attitude to ask questions, learn, and suggest process improvements.
• Pay attention to details and help identify edge cases.
• Highly motivated and coming up with ideas and perspectives to help us move towards our goals faster.
• Follows timelines and absolute commitment to deadlines.

Interview Process: 

• Round 1 Interview - Profile Evaluation
• Round 2 Interview - Technical Evaluation with Engineering Teams
• Round 3 Interview - Evaluation with Leadership
• Round 4 Interview - HR

Compensation:

• As per Industry/Market Standards

Please be aware that all your customers are Enterprises and Fortune 500 companies.

Why Join Us:

• Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
• Great Salary & Equity: We keep up with the market standards & provide pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also provide equity options for our top performers.
• Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to training and developing our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
• Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience, one of the reasons being the open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will give you the opportunity to experience it all first hand.
• Health insurance: We offer health insurance coverage upto 5 Lacs for you and your family including parents.

We are looking for a dynamic and experienced professional to join our team as a Digital Marketing Specialist. This role will primarily focus on collecting, analysing, and interpreting digital marketing data from around the world, with additional responsibility for managing our social media platforms. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in digital marketing analytics, along with proven expertise in social media management across diverse regions and cultures.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement data collection strategies to gather digital marketing performance data from diverse geographic regions.
• Utilize web analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics) to track and analyze website traffic, user behavior, and conversion metrics across different countries and regions.
• Monitor and analyze digital advertising campaigns across multiple platforms (e.g., Google Ads, Facebook Ads, LinkedIn Ads) to assess performance and ROI on a global scale.
• Manage social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram) across multiple countries and regions, including content creation, scheduling, posting, and community engagement.
• Develop and implement social media strategies to increase brand awareness, engagement, and follower growth in target markets.
• Create dashboards and reports to visualize key digital marketing metrics and insights for stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Perform in-depth data analysis to uncover actionable insights and optimization opportunities for improving digital marketing performance.
• Identify and implement data quality improvements and best practices to ensure accuracy and reliability of marketing data across global channels.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends in digital marketing analytics, and recommend innovative approaches to data collection and analysis.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: ₹10,000.00 - ₹25,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Internet reimbursement
• Leave encashment
• Paid sick time
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Day shift

Supplemental pay types:

• Commission pay
• Yearly bonus

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Digital marketing: 1 year (Preferred)
• total work: 1 year (Preferred)

• Build and continuously mentor a talented product engineering team comprising of functional specialists and IT managers
• Actively advise on the optimum technology architecture, framework and supported IT infrastructure to ensure a balance between budgeted costs & building engineering capabilities
• Lead the development of products as per defined timelines and deliverables
• Ensure quality and security of the concepts and products in development by enabling adequate measures throughout the process
• Foster a corporate culture by inspiring the engineering team to grow and develop. She/he should be actively involved in feedback and retention of team members.
• Create strategic plans, set timelines to drive development of the planned products
• Continually review the progress to ensure timely launch of the respective product builds 
• Document periodic feedback from both internal and external stakeholders to continually improve the released products
• Enable active collaboration between product engineering team and other business departments within the organization, thereby promoting a culture of openness 

Frontend Developer (ReactJS)

About Company

Egregore Labs (www.egregorelabs.com) is a financial software company founded in 2017 by Prashant Vijay (ISB, Tulane) & Hari Balaji (IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Madras) both of whom have spent over a decade each in Financial Services, with a majority of their experience at Goldman Sachs across New York, Hong Kong & Singapore in roles across Trading, Quant & Technology.

Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Frontend engineer with ReactJS development experience to join our team.

We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks.

Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

Implement responsive and performant UIs with user centered approach with frontend technologies including ReactJS, Javascript(ES 6), Typescript, SCSS, etc

Write meaningful test cases for frontend &amp

Integrate our products with 3rd party products/tools/services

Develop Infrastructure for delivering services using a performance driven approach, build databases, schedule automated jobs, etc

Ideal Background / Experience

At least 3 yrs of diverse experience in web development for product or services oriented environment with exposure to working production deployments

Expertise in programming using Python/ReactJS or similar scripting languages

In-depth exposure to technologies used in web-based SaaS products, including REST APIs

Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB

Nice to have exposure to any of

AWS

Azure

ELK

Object Relational Models (SQLAlchemy, etc)

Google APIs

Microservices Architecture Pattern

NodeJS / ExpressJS

Must Have: ReactJS, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, Databases (SQL & NoSQL)

Work From Home

Package: upto 10L

Desired Candidate Profile

• A team focus with strong collaboration and communication skills
• Exceptional ability to quickly grasp high-level business goals, derive requirements, and translate them into effective technical solutions
• Exceptional object-oriented thinking, design and programming skills (Java 8 or 11)
• Expertise with the following technologies : Data Structures, Design Patterns ,Code Versioning Tools(Github/bitbucket/..), XML, JSON, Spring Batch Restful, Spring Cloud, Grafana(Knowledge/Experience), Kafka, Spring Boot, Microservices, DB/NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Architecture design (Patterns) Agile, JIRA.
• Penchant toward self-motivation and continuous improvement; these words should describe you: dedicated, energetic, curious, conscientious, and flexible.

• Must have a minimum of 3 years of experience in managing AWS resources and automating CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Python or Bash be able to build and administer CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of infrastructure tools like Cloud Formation, Terraform, Ansible.
• Experience with microservices and/or event-driven architecture.
• Experience using containerization technologies (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, Mesos or Vagrant).
• Strong practical Windows and Linux system administration skills in the cloud.
• Understanding of DNS, NFS, TCP/IP and other protocols.
• Knowledge of secure SDLC, OWASP top 10 and CWE/SANS top 25.
• Deep understanding of Web Sockets and their functioning. Hands on experience of ElasticCache, Redis, ECS or EKS. Installation, configuration and management of Apache or Nginx web server, Apache/Tomcat Application Server, configure SSL certificates, setup reverse proxy.
• Exposure to RDBMS (MySQL, SQL Server, Aurora, etc.) is a plus.
• Exposure to programming languages like JAVA, PHP, SQL is a plus.
• AWS Developer or AWS SysOps Administrator certification is a plus.
• AWS Solutions Architect Certification experience is a plus.
• Experience building Blue/Green, Canary or other zero down time deployment strategies, advanced understanding of VPC, EC2 Route53 IAM, Lambda is a plus.