Customer Service Specialist

We are seeking talented and driven Business Development Interns to join our team. In this role, you will collaborate closely with our sales, marketing, design and development teams to identify new business opportunities and drive growth. This position offers valuable hands-on experience in business development, enabling you to hone your skills and significantly contribute to our strategic initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in identifying potential clients and generating leads through various channels.
• Research industry trends, competitors, and potential clients.
• Provide insights to support business development strategies.
• Assist in building and maintaining relationships with clients through effective communication.
• Aid in the development of sales presentations and proposals.
• Participate in sales meetings and presentations.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of client interactions and sales activities.
• Stay informed about the company's products/services and industry trends.
• Proactively seek opportunities for professional growth.
• Work closely with the business development team to achieve sales targets.
• Collaborate with other departments for effective cross-functional initiatives.
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Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing or recently graduated in Business, Marketing, Sales, or a related field.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and familiarity with CRM software.
• Strong research and analytical skills for identifying market trends and opportunities.
• Eager to learn and adapt to various business environments.
• Collaborative attitude with the ability to work effectively within a team.
• Comfortable in professional networking situations and adept at cultivating business relationships.
• Ability to present complex information clearly and concisely.

What We Offer:

By joining our team, you will enjoy:

• Significant opportunities for professional growth and career advancement.
• A supportive and inclusive work environment.
• The opportunity to significantly contribute to the success of our organization.
• Standard five-day work week, from Monday to Friday.
• Flexible shifts are available for noon (2 pm - 12 am) and evening (4 pm - 2 am), including one-hour breaks.

Recruitment

Finding eligible candidates

Establishing and maintaining criteria for what an eligible candidate is (ie point score on interview, ref parse out doc) 

Preliminary interview (record and report). Final offer to be deliberated amongst the founders

Building business relationships with recruiters

Advising us on new ways to recruit

Onboarding

Keeping track of documents of candidates

Offer letter to be sent

Training classes to scheduled

HR meeting

Creating ID cards

Getting access cards

Sending PF documentation to accountant

Giving employment contract

General operations

Scheduling week to week

Planning and keeping track of PTO, sick leave, emg leave etc. (End of year handling rollover reports for PTO)

Maintaining weekly hours review. Ensuring accuracy every week.

Giving monthly report to founders for billing

Monitoring tardies and absences and reducing this

Keeping track of each employees vertical based on QA recommendations and tardiness/behavioral issues

Written notices, documentation

Scheduling performance reviews

Keeping track of raises and increments

Proposing solutions to us in case it’s a systemic issue and not just an issue with one or two employees

Organizing company outings/events

Handle loan requests and paperwork

Make minutes of weekly meeting

Handling resignations

Enforcing minimum notice periods

Handling terminations

Keeping up with documentation for all

SPOC for accountant

SPOC for co-working space

SPOC for employees

THE POSITION

Ashnik is looking for experienced technology consultant to work in DevOps team in pre-sales function. The primary area of focus will be Microservices, CI/CD pipeline, Docker, Kubernetes, containerization and container security. A person in this role will be responsible for leading technical discussions with customers and partners and helping them arrive at final solution.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Engineering or equivalent degree
• Must have at least 8 years of experience in IT industry designing and delivering solutions
• Must have at least 3 years of hand-on experience of Linux and Operating system
• Must have at least 3 years of experience of working in an environment with highly virtualized or cloud based infrastructure
• Must have at least 2 years hands on experience in CI/CD pipeline, micro-services, containerization and kubernetes
• Though coding is not needed in this role, the person should have ability to understand and debug code if required
• Should be able to explain complex solution in simpler ways
• Should be ready to travel 20-40% in a month
• Should be able to engage with customers to understand the fundamental/driving requirement

DESIRED SKILLS

• Past experience of working with Docker and/or Kubernetes at Scale
• Past experience of working in a DevOps team
• Prior experience in Pre-sales role

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own pre-sales or sales engineering responsibility to design, present, deliver technical solution
• Be the point of contact for all technical queries for Sales team and partners
• Build full-fledged solution proposals with details of implementation and scope of work for customers
• Contribute in technical writings through blogs, whitepapers, solution demos
• Make presentations at events and participate in events.
• Conduct customer workshops to educate them about features in Docker Enterprise Edition
• Coordinate technical escalations with principal vendor
• Get an understanding of various other components and considerations involved in the areas mentioned above
• Be able to articulate value of technology vendor’s products that Ashnik is partnering with eg.  Docker, Sysdig, Hashicorp, Ansible, Jenkins etc.
• Work with partners and sales team for responding to RFPs and tenders

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU?

You would be adding a great experience of working with a leading open source solutions company in South East Asia region to your career. You would get to learn from the leaders and grow in the industry. This would be a great opportunity for you to grow in your career through continuous learning, adding depth and breadth of technologies. Since we work with leading open source technologies and engage with large enterprises, it creates enormous possibilities for career growth for our team. Not to mention that our people find the journey with Ashnik to be exciting and a fulfilling experience.

Call Reception and Ticket Logging: Responsible for:

• Ensuring calls are answered professionally
• Ensuring that the relevant information is collected from a customer
• Ensuring that the correct level of priority is agreed with the customer
• Ensuring that the ticket is assigned to the correct engineer
• Ensuring that the engineer is aware that there is a new ticket assigned to their queue
  
  SLA Management: Responsible for:
• Ensuring that appropriate attention is paid to P1s
• TPMs engaged immediately for engineer dispatch to the site where applicable
• The customer is forwarded to an engineer for a possible remote fix
• Ensuring that all tickets are managed in line with SLAs
  
  Jeopardy Management: Responsible for:
• Ensuring that the ticket is managed in line with Company’s jeopardy management process
  
  Escalation Management: Responsible for:
• Ensuring that the ticket is escalated appropriately in line with Company’s escalation process
• Provide 1st line escalation to customers and channels (referring to Jeopardy and Escalation Manager)
• Provide 1st line escalation into TPM (referring to Jeopardy and Escalation Manager)
• Responsible for advising Service Centre Manager of any missing information in the knowledge database
  
  Communication Responsible for:
• Customer Communication
• Ensuring that the customer is updated regularly throughout the duration of the ticket
• Ensuring the quality of ticket input is of a high standard
• Ensuring that key internal contacts are advised of any issues
• Responsible for reading, understanding, and complying with Company’s Information Security policies.

FORMAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• Educated to an A-level minimum, with higher education qualification (degree or equivalent preferred). Alternatively, relevant and proven Industry experience would be accepted
• Industry or relevant business qualifications and accreditations would be desirable
• Proficiency involved in working in the service industry, with particular emphasis placed on customer focus issues.
• Ability to form close working relationships with the customer community, sub-contractors
• Excellent client-facing communications skills
• A Self-motivated team player with excellent interpersonal skills
• An outgoing individual willing to participate as part of a small and flexible team
• in European languages would be an advantage
• ITIL Foundation / ITIL v3 Foundation
• Overall telecommunications knowledge with an appreciation of the Nortel / Avaya / Genesys / AWS Product Sets

Key Competencies

• Customer Focused
• Relationship Building and Maintenance
• Decision-Making Ability
• Inspiring Communicator
• Initiating Action
• Personal Responsibility

QA Engineer

StyleCracker is the most innovative fashion tech platform in the country. With a vision to make India stylish, we have developed the StyleCracker Box that combines leading technology and first hand stylist experience to curate highly personalised looks for every unique customer.

We're looking to build upon our solid foundation and develop an unmatched solution that can truly help us work towards our mission.

• Responsible for the quality of product visible to millions of users.
• Prepare proper documentation for test cases, release notes, etc.
• Keep track of bugs and prioritize those in coordination with Product Managers.
• Write and execute detailed test cases for upcoming features and ensure customer requirements and development is closely aligned.
• Contribute ideas to improve/develop our QA processes and best practices based on your extensive experience.
• Troubleshoot application issues and coordinate issue resolution with developers, PMs and internal teams.
• Ensure that software functionality is implemented with a focus on code optimization and organization.

• Excellent understanding of software development life cycle.
• Should be strong in writing use cases.
• Strong understanding of determining the cause of bugs.
• Excellent knowledge of API responses, statuses, etc.
• Excellent understanding of load time optimization, latency, etc.
• Hands on experience with performance measuring tools like jMeter, Postman, etc.
• Experience with using the latest engineering tools (eg. Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, Git/Perforce).
• Excellent team orientation and communication skills.
• Good knowledge of frontend and backend technologies.
• Knowledge of automation testing tools such as Selenium.
• Experience working in agile methodology.
• Experience with API automation testing.
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, manage workload and consistently deliver results.
• Understanding of the different types of testing between UAT, Security and Performance.
• Ability to generate benchmarks by comparing similar products / services.

• Bachelors or masters degree in computer science or a related field.
• 2 – 3 years experience as a QA engineer on native mobile (android and ios) and web applications.