Business Development Executive

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strong technical leadership and mentorship to software engineers.
• Define and execute engineering strategies aligned with business goals.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects with a focus on timely, high-quality delivery.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and prioritize product features.
• Drive Agile methodologies to enhance team performance and efficiency.
• Conduct performance reviews and foster continuous professional development.
• Oversee the complete SDLC—from design and development to deployment.
• Manage engineering budgets, resource allocation, and capacity planning.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry best practices.
• Ensure high coding standards and adherence to engineering best practices.
• Contribute hands-on to coding, architecture, and technical design decisions.
• Work closely with clients and external stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Tech Stack

• Java
• Spring Framework
• Microservices Architecture
• Cloud Technologies
• Large-scale distributed systems

Ideal Candidate Profile

Experience

• 8+ years of engineering experience, including backend development and scalable distributed systems.
• 2+ years of people and delivery leadership experience.
• Proven client-facing experience, translating business needs into engineering execution.

Technical Expertise

• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring, microservices, and SDLC processes.
• Deep understanding of system design, architecture reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and project management tools.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Strong communication skills with the ability to present to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating with product, design, sales, and client teams.
• Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end execution, release coordination, and delivery.

Additional Requirements

• Experience working in product-based organizations.
• Stable career history (minimum 2 years per previous organization).
• B.Tech in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field from Tier 1 / Tier 2 institutions (Master’s preferred).
• Education criteria may be relaxed for candidates from strong, reputed product organizations.

Key Responsibilities

Core Engineering & Testing

• Design and implement scalable, maintainable automation frameworks for API and backend systems.
• Own end-to-end test strategy across functional, system, and integration layers.
• Build robust API automation suites using Java (Rest Assured/Karate) and modern tooling.
• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and DevOps teams in an agile environment to ensure high-quality releases.
• Design and validate AI-generated test cases for APIs, including authentication flows, request chaining, and error handling.
• Build and maintain QA agentic systems capable of:
• Auto-generating test cases from requirements
• Detecting coverage gaps across services
• Suggesting missing edge cases and negative scenarios
• Test AI-based applications (LLMs, copilots, intelligent services) for correctness, hallucination risks, and robustness across edge cases.
• Define testing strategies for non-deterministic systems, including:
• Prompt evaluation frameworks
• Response validation heuristics
• Dataset-driven testing

Quality Intelligence & Platform Thinking

• Build tools that provide real-time visibility into test coverage, risk areas, and defect patterns.
• Leverage AI/ML techniques for:
• Defect clustering and root cause analysis
• Test optimization and prioritization
• Contribute to internal QA platforms such as API coverage mapping and intelligent test generation systems.

Mandatory Skills & Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience in API testing and automation.
• Strong programming skills in Java (preferred) or Python/Golang.
• Hands-on experience with API automation frameworks such as Rest Assured, Karate, or similar tools.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, microservices architecture, request/response validation, and authentication flows.
• Experience in test planning, strategy, and execution across multiple system layers.
• Ability to analyze logs, debug failures, and collaborate with stakeholders for issue resolution.
• Practical exposure to AI tools for test generation, with the ability to refine and productionize outputs.
• Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience in AI projects involving RAG Models, Multi-Agent Systems, or Generative AI is mandatory.
• Candidates should currently be working with Product-based companies only.

The key aspects of this role:

• Candidate with exceptional programming skills, problem-solving abilities and strong work ethic.

• The candidate has to work on custom programming and web application development for Drupal.

• Testing, maintenance and troubleshooting of existing company sites and resolving issues if any.

• Contributing ideas and efforts towards internal projects and working as part of a team to find solutions on various problems.

• Communicate technical ideas to business users and other teams (design, QA).

• Collaborate with team members and to work independently when needed.

• Eager to embrace current and emerging web technologies.

To be the right fit, you'll need:

• Experience of total 4+ years working on PHP and Drupal 7,8 Development (at least 2+ years in Drupal 8)

• Strong knowledge of MySQL, jQuery, HTML5, CSS

• Experience with Drupal architecture, best practices and coding standards

• Knowledge on Views, Services etc.

• Experience in custom module and theme creation

• Familiar with sub version control systems such as Git or SVN

• Basic knowledge of environment setup for Linux distribution

Join PlanetSpark's Sales Team

Position: Business Development Associate

Location: Gurgaon, India

Work Mode: Work from Office (WFO)

Industry: Ed Tech

Functional Area: Inside Sales

Shift: Day Shift / Night Shift (optional)

About Us:

PlanetSpark is on the lookout for dynamic individuals to join our Sales team. We are an Ed Tech company dedicated to transforming education and empowering young minds.

Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Sales Representative at PlanetSpark, you will play a pivotal role in guiding our consumers to make informed choices about our courses. Your responsibilities include:

Understanding our offerings and assisting students in selecting the right courses.

Engaging with parents who have participated in demo classes for their children.

Ensuring effective follow-up with potential customers and successfully closing sales within defined timelines.

Maintaining meticulous records of interactions through various communication channels, such as email and calls.

Achieving monthly targets and meeting all input metric goals.

Hiring Criteria:

Training Period: 21428 (Stipend)

Salary Range (CTC): 6.6 LPA (4.02 LPA fixed + 2.4 LPA variable)

Skills Required: Excellent Communication

Experience: 0-3 Years (Freshers are welcome)

Minimum Education: Graduation

Graduation Year: 2018-2024 passouts

Important Criteria:

Willingness to work 5 days a week.

Ready to thrive in a startup environment with a high-intensity learning culture and rapid growth opportunities.

Job Location: Gurugram