Creative Designer

Job Title: Senior QA Engineer – Manual Testing (Hardware Focused)

Location: Navi Mumbai (Only local candidates from Mumbai/Navi Mumbai will be considered)

Work Mode: 5 Days Working | Work From Office

Experience Required: 5+ Years

Notice Period: Immediate Joiners or Candidates Who are already serving or served notice period.

About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced and detail-oriented Senior Manual QA Engineer with strong proficiency in hardware-based and emulator-driven manual testing. The ideal candidate will also possess 1–2 years of hands-on experience in Java, ideally for scripting or basic automation tasks. This role is ideal for someone with a background in hardware testing looking to contribute to highly integrated systems involving both hardware and software components.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and execute manual test cases focused on hardware-integrated systems, embedded environments, and emulators.
• Translate complex system requirements and user stories into well-structured, actionable test cases.
• Plan and maintain comprehensive test documentation ensuring traceability and thorough coverage.
• Identify, document, and follow up on bugs and inconsistencies across releases and change requests.
• Collaborate with development and hardware teams to ensure robust system validation across interfaces.
• Utilize Java (1–2 years' experience) to support test scripting or automation where applicable.

Must-Have Skills:

• Manual Testing Expertise: 5+ years in QA with a primary focus on hardware/manual testing.
• Hardware & Emulator Testing: Proven experience in testing physical devices, hardware components, or emulators.
• Java Scripting: 1–2 years of experience in Java for test scripting or automation utilities.
• Proficiency in test case design, defect tracking (e.g., JIRA), and understanding of testing life cycle models.
• Exposure to DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms like AWS.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and working knowledge of databases.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Python or other test automation frameworks.
• Testing certifications (ISTQB, CP-SAT, CP-MAT, etc.)
• Familiarity with location-based technologies (GPS, mapping, navigation systems).
• Strong analytical mindset with excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Expected Salary bands

  3 - 5years - upto 8lpa
  5 - 7years - upto 11lpa
  7 - 9years - upto 14lpa
  9 - 12 years - upto 16lpa

• Minimum 2 years of hands on experience in Automation testing
  
  

• Experience with either or more of these tools

  Selenium-Web driver, Selenium Grid, Selenium Page Object Model, Page Factory concept
  JS based automation tools like Webdriver.io, Protractor, Cypress, Jasmine, Karate, etc.
  API automation tools like Karate, SoapUI, Postman, RestAssured, etc.
  Mobile automation tools like Appium, Calaba.sh, SauceLabs, BrowserStack, etc.
  Commercial tools like UFT, Ranorex, TestComplete, etc.

• Must have hands on experience in using either or more of

  Programming/Scripting languages: Java, C#, Python, JavaScripting
  Reporting frameworks: ReportPortal.io, ExtentReports, TestNG, Allure Reports, etc.

• Must be aware of effective use of one or more of

  execution tools like TestNG, NUnit, Junit, MBUnit, MSTest
  source control management tools like git, TFS, Bitbucket, Azure Repos, etc.
  build tools like Maven, Ant, Graddle, MS Build, circleCI, Azure Pipeline, etc.
  continuous integration tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, Dockers, etc.

• Must have experience of designing and implementing test frameworks like Data driven, Keyword driven or Hybrid.

• Should be able to write basic DDL, DML command using any database like Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, PostGreSQL, etc.

• Good to have experience in automating different layers (Front end, backend, web-services/API) of application using different automation approach.

• Good to have exposure to various
  test methodologies like BDD, TDD, ATDD will be a plus
  test management tools like AzureTestPlans, Zephyr, Xray, Jira, etc.

What You Will be Doing

• Writing articles for the Merkle Science blog about breaking cybercrime news, regulatory updates and recent investigations conducted by our intelligence team.
• Developing and sharing daily content for company social media channels.
• Drafting and distributing company announcements and service updates.
• Compiling content for quarterly reports using data and research from our intelligence team.
• Identifying and acquiring content syndication agreements with relevant online media channels.
• Monitoring content marketing performance using website, blog, social media and SEO analytics tools.
• Creating presentation materials for sales, education and thought leadership events and engagements.
• Suggesting improvements to content marketing activities.
• Proposing new topics for reports and articles.

What Your Background Might Look Like

• Native-level English (both written and spoken)
• More than five years of journalism or content marketing experience.
• Prior experience working at an enterprise technology company in a content marketing role or a fast-paced newsroom or marketing agency environment is desirable.
• Prior knowledge and experience/interest in one or more of the following domains is preferred: financial services, cybersecurity, regulatory technology, blockchain and cryptocurrency
• Experience working with or for international companies and individuals from a variety of cultural backgrounds

What Personal Traits You Will Need to Succeed in This Role?

• Great at writing - able to create compelling content with minimal direction based on thorough research and rigorous self-editing
• Self-starter - able to work remotely and independently while maintaining high energy and motivation
• Creative problem solver, results-driven and self-motivated
• Well organised with the ability to prioritise workload and use time effectively especially when juggling multiple deadlines
• Ability to handle changing requirements and unforeseen challenges rapidly and positively

Who We Are and What We Do

Merkle Science provides blockchain transaction monitoring and intelligence solutions for cryptoasset service providers, financial institutions and government agencies to detect, investigate and prevent money laundering, terrorist financing and other criminal activities. Merkle Science is headquartered in Singapore with offices in Bangalore and Tokyo and backed by Digital Currency Group, Kenetic, SGInnovate and LuneX.

Merkle Science is currently searching for an experienced Content Marketing professional to help boost the firm’s inbound marketing and thought leadership activities.

What You Will be Doing

• Writing articles for the Merkle Science blog about breaking cybercrime news, regulatory updates and recent investigations conducted by our intelligence team.
• Developing and sharing daily content for company social media channels.
• Drafting and distributing company announcements and service updates.
• Compiling content for quarterly reports using data and research from our intelligence team.
• Identifying and acquiring content syndication agreements with relevant online media channels.
• Monitoring content marketing performance using website, blog, social media and SEO analytics tools.
• Creating presentation materials for sales, education and thought leadership events and engagements.
• Suggesting improvements to content marketing activities.
• Proposing new topics for reports and articles.

What Your Background Might Look Like

• Native-level English (both written and spoken)
• More than five years of journalism or content marketing experience.
• Prior experience working at an enterprise technology company in a content marketing role or a fast-paced newsroom or marketing agency environment is desirable.
• Prior knowledge and experience/interest in one or more of the following domains is preferred: financial services, cybersecurity, regulatory technology, blockchain and cryptocurrency
• Experience working with or for international companies and individuals from a variety of cultural backgrounds

What Personal Traits You Will Need to Succeed in This Role?

• Great at writing - able to create compelling content with minimal direction based on thorough research and rigorous self-editing
• Self-starter - able to work remotely and independently while maintaining high energy and motivation
• Creative problem solver, results-driven and self-motivated
• Well organised with the ability to prioritise workload and use time effectively especially when juggling multiple deadlines
• Ability to handle changing requirements and unforeseen challenges rapidly and positively

Job Responsibilities

• Generating sales from direct & indirect channels. (Online & Offline)
• Responsible for closing potential leads to achieving defined targets.
• Monitoring the market and competitor products and activities and providing detailed sales forecasting.
• Effectively managing inventory for properties across various channels.
• Reviewing customer activity, anticipating customer needs, and improving customer satisfaction/experience.
• Establishing and maintaining key customer relationships.
• Create promotional plans and strategies to develop sales plans and achieve defined sales goals.
• Ensure guests will have a pleasant stay experience by assisting during the stay.

Required Skills

• A user-centric approach to drive higher satisfaction among guests, and owners.
• Ability to execute and drive efficiency through continuous process improvement.
• Strong Interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate and manage.
• Strong in advanced excel, google sheet management.
• Ability to deliver results under pressure and within the deadline.
• Strongly inclined to do high-quality and impactful work in a dynamic environment.

      Qualification & Experience

• Bachelor/Master’s degree in engineering, business administration, or related field with a minimum of 2 years of work experience in sales required.

     Travel Required

• Up to 50% of the time is to be spent in the region for a better understanding of the local market and to be more responsive to our stakeholders.

• You are a great teammate with proven capabilities working on SaaS product and a passion for writing exception code.
• You are hungry for an opportunity to join a start-up and become a member of core platform team driving the company forward.
• Has good analytical and problem-solving skills and is able to break down a solution into smaller units of work and produce a solution roadmap.
• Has written high quality, well-tested shared components that can be leveraged by multiple systems. Can step into specific projects to supply additional management, coding and engineering capacity as needed.
• Has expert knowledge in distributes systems and high-volume transactions.
• Understand the product mission, goals, and tasks and execute with the team to achieve them.
• Understand the design and architecture and build modules in accordance with it or recommend and make the necessary changes that adds more stability to our product.
• Improve the quality of our front-end code and our overall front-end user experience.
• Takes requirements (business features, technical debts and internal enhancements) and designs resilient solutions. 

• 1+ years of hands-on experience in Java/Kotlin.
• Demonstrable understanding of Design Patterns.
• Experience in Context & Dependency Injection or Spring framework, Hibernate/JPA.
• Experience in RESTful/SOAP web services in integrating with 3rd Party API Integrations.
• Proficient in SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in multi-threading and concurrency is a plus Experience in JMS messaging using Apache Zookeeper and Kafka is a plus.
• Experience in Angular is a plus. Knowledge of modern CI/CD environments: Git, Gradle, GitLab Familiarity with tools like Postman, SOAPUI, IntelliJ

• Willing to learn our tech-stack (Kotlin | CDI | Angular).
• Develop API integrations using RESTful/SOAP web services.
• Significant technical academic course work or equivalent work experience
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge on cloud infrastructure is a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Build scalable, service oriented web applications from scratch for technology products for European market.
• Maintain these applications for accuracy and high availability.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve system designs, architecture and implementation standards
• Participate with founding, business and product teams in discussions on how to build and launch new modules.
• Collaborate across functions and own the planning, estimation and execution for parts of the product.
• Start as an individual contributor but stay ready to build and mentor a small team of up to 5 engineers over the coming months and years.
• Contribute in hiring highly ambitious engineers as the team grows.
• Being among the first people on the engineering team, be a culture driver.

Requirements:

• Experience of architecting and building products/business critical backend applications using different MVC frameworks.
• Experience with microservices.
• Experience of building and maintaining scalable applications using Node.js/MEAN stack.
• Experience of deploying and maintaining web applications.
• Experience with non relational databases like MongoDB.
• Understanding of relational databases like MySQL.
• Familiarity with REST APIs and stress testing tools.
• Good communication skills.

• Exposure in building polyglot applications.
• Exposure for devops and related processes, preferably GCP.
• Knowledge of components in scalable solutions i. e. database partitions, message brokers, background processing.
• Exposure to basic frontend technologies to speed up collaboration with the frontend team.

Technical Design Lead

If you are an advanced Software developer, having experience in leading a team, who has experience in developing platforms or frameworks, components and having knowledge of the open-source software/ tools/ technologies, then you are the one we are looking for.

Preference for candidates who have been exposed to Blockchain and Fin-Tech domains. The candidate will have to architecting and develope Software Programmes based on requirements provided.

The codebase the candidate develops should be of high quality and should be modular, scalable and re-usable at all times. There should be a focus all the time to promote SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) to ensure all of the services are Highly-Available and Fault Tolerant at all times.

Other Responsibilities:

• • Responsible for understanding the Business requirements and validating the framework design and execution methodology.
  • Ensure high quality software systems are developed by the software development team within defined standards.
  • Flexible to adapting & introducing new and latest technologies to organization.
  • Maintain current knowledge of technology landscape and developments.
  • Innovation & Optimizing R&D.
  • Defining the software technology strategy, architecture, and road-map.
  • Would love to do more coding yourself, but accept that you can bring most value by helping others to excel.
  • Should have built large scale applications with modern web frameworks & technologies
  • Should be a fast thinker, hands on manager and strong communicator and think and act like an entrepreneur.
  • Consolidate our technology platforms and create plans for each Track, analyze and monitor technology performance metrics.
  • Take the initiative in thought leadership, innovation and creativity.