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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.

Who are we?

Centre for Research on Start-ups and Risk Financing (CREST) has been set up by IIT Madras to provide thought leadership and intellectual impact to the start-up and innovation ecosystem. CREST has embarked on an ambitious mission of becoming one of the top global research centres in the area of start-ups and innovation. The core of CREST is the development of an AI-driven Intelligent
Information Platform that would enable cutting edge research as well as influence policy and practice like never before
With the recent exponential growth in the start-up and innovation ecosystem, new data-driven approaches would play a critical part in sustaining the current growth curve. The objective of CREST would be to become the gold standard of information and intelligence on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Private Equity investments in India

The Opening
We are currently looking for our next passionate, skilled and motivated Python developer, who can join us immediately. The candidate should
● Be excited about building a next-generation intelligence platform
● Have a can-do attitude and ready for challenges
● Value working with a greatteam - confident, creative and thoughtful people who come together to achieve great things
● Be eager to experiment, learn and bring new things, improving the platform
● Be high on self-belief and enthusiasm to work in a startup-like culture - small team, fast-paced work environment If this is you, we're excited to interact!

As the Data Science Engineer in CREST, you will

● Write reusable code and build libraries for future use
● Establish solid data-pipelines and automate routine tasks
● Develop & deploy custom Machine Learning (ML) models using the latest
research in ML and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
● Build performant applications following best practices, maximizing speed and scalability
● Improve upon the existing codebase mitigating technical debt
● Take ownership of all aspects of the application - architecture, quality and efficiency
Requirements
● Proficient understanding of Python language
● Expertise with data-modelling, data-wrangling & data-mining techniques
● Familiar with Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes and hands-on experience with packages like Pandas, Numpy etc
● Experience with data visualisation tools and libraries like Plotly, Seaborn etc
● Good understanding of advanced Statistical and ML techniques on
regression, classification, forecasting etc
● Skilled in NLP and specifically ML applications in NLP like information
extraction, feature engineering, classification, building language models etc
● Should provide direction and mentorship to junior team members
● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from premier educational institutions
● Minimum 2 years of experience (research or professional) in the
above-mentioned areas
Good to have
● Comfortable with using Command Line and Linux systems
● Experience and knowledge in version control systems like git, svn, etc
● Knowledge in developing & deploying web apps & web APIs with an overall understanding of client-server interactions
● Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB
Job type
● Full time, on-site
● Immediate joiner
● Initial appointment for 1 year, it would be renewed subsequently based on performance

Work location
Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
India - 600036

Why work with us?
● Get to interact with the best of the minds. IIT Madras has been ranked as the
top university in India for 5 years in a row
● Be at the forefront of the Entrepreneurial ecosystem in India
● Enormous opportunities for learning

About Us:

GreedyGame is looking for a Business Analyst to join its clan. We are looking to get an enthusiastic Business Analyst who likes to play with Data. You'll be building insights from Data, creating analytical dashboard and monitoring KPI values. Also you will coordinate with teams working on different layers of the infrastructure.

Job details:

Seniority Level: Associate

Level Industry: Marketing & Advertising

Employment Type: Full Time

Job Location: Bangalore

Experience: 1-2 years

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• A previous experience of working closely with Operations and Product Teams.
• Competency in Excel and SQL is a must.
• Experience with a programming language like Python is required.
• Knowledge of Marketing Tools is preferable.

WHAT WILL BE YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES?

• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, developing and implementing solutions.
• Should be able to generate meaningful insights to help the marketing team and product team in enhancing the user experience for Mobile and Web Apps.
• Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies.
• Performing requirements analysis from a user and business point of view
• Combining data from multiple sources like SQL tables, Google Analytics, Inhouse Analytical signals etc and driving relevant insights
• Deciding the success metrics and KPIs for different Products and features and making sure they are achieved.
• Act as quality assurance liaison prior to the release of new data analysis or application.

Skills and Abilities:

• Python
• SQL
• Business Analytics
• BigQuery

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?

• An opportunity to be a part of a fast scaling start-up in the AdTech space that offers unmatched services and products.
• To work with a team of young enthusiasts who are always upbeat and self-driven to achieve bigger milestones in shorter time spans.
• A workspace that is wide open as per the open door policy at the company, located in the most happening center of Bangalore.
• A well-fed stomach makes the mind work better and therefore we provide - free lunch with a wide variety on all days of the week, a stocked-up pantry to satiate your want for munchies, a Foosball table to burst stress and above all a great working environment.
• We believe that we grow as you grow. Once you are a part of our team, your growth also becomes essential to us, and in order to make sure that happens, there are timely formal and informal feedbacks given

• Build and execute social media strategy through competitive research, platform determination, benchmarking, messaging and audience identification
• Generate, edit, publish and share daily content (original text, images, video or HTML) that builds meaningful connections and encourages community members to take action
• Set up and optimize company pages within each platform to increase the visibility of company’s social content
• Moderate all user-generated content in line with the moderation policy for each community
• Create editorial calendars and syndication schedules
• Continuously improve by capturing and analyzing the appropriate social data/metrics, insights and best practices, and then acting on the information
• Collaborate with other departments (customer relations, sales etc) to manage reputation, identify key players and coordinate actions

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work closely with the Tech/Team Lead, and the rest of the engineering team to build and scale a data-driven platform.

This role will act as a great springboard to accelerate career growth & transition into a Lead level role.

Your primary focus will be the development of server-side logic, building new services and APIs, developing UI components, supporting the maintenance of current APIs, reviewing work, and improving the performance and reliability of our systems as we rapidly scale our product and organization

• An effective Senior Software Engineer will be a self-motivated learner; a highly creative engineer having obsessive attention towards detail and thoroughness.
• You’ve been building web applications professionally for 4+ years
• You’re proficient in NodeJS, TypeScript, MySQL, and MongoDB
• You possess strong OOP and design pattern knowledge
• Familiar with modern engineering practices: Code Reviews, Continuous Deployment, Automated Testing, etc
• You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability and experience with TDD (Test Driven Development)
• You’ve got the ability to build RESTful APIs
• Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support team, and fellow engineers is not a problem for you
• Well versed with the fundamentals of computer science and distributed systems
• FrontEnd experience; (Good to have) Angular
• Startup experience, preferably a tech startup
• Open Source contributor
• You have experience with other programming languages -- e.g. Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, C, etc.
• Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools
• You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

Role – SDET

Experience – 4+ years

Location - Bengaluru

Key Skills - API test automation, Java, Rest Assured

• Minimum 3+ years of API test automation experience

• Strong Programming experience on Java using OOPs, collections, exception handling, and strong debugging skills

• Strong testing and test design skills like scenario identification, test case identification, defect identification with a focus on test coverage

• Strong experience in testing of API / webservices

• Excellent experience and skill in the development of API test automation suites using Rest Assured

• Good experience of working on Jenkins and other CI-CD tools

• Knowledge of Dockers

• Strong knowledge of SQL and experience in database testing is desirable

• Good communication skills (verbal and written) is a must