Data Scientist

WHO WE ARE:

TIFIN is a fintech company backed by industry leaders including JP Morgan, Morningstar, Broadridge and Hamilton Lane.

We build engaging experiences through powerful AI and personalization. We leverage the combined power of investment intelligence, data science, and technology to make investing a more engaging experience and a more powerful driver of financial wellbeing.

At TIFIN, design and behavioral thinking enables engaging customer centered experiences along with software and application programming interfaces (APIs). We use investment science and intelligence to build algorithmic engines inside the software and APIs to enable better investor outcomes.

We hope to change the world of wealth in ways that personalized delivery has changed the world of movies, music and more. In a world where every individual is unique, we believe in the power of AI-based personalization to match individuals to financial advice and investments is necessary to driving wealth goals

OUR VALUES:

• Shared Understanding through Listening and Speaking the Truth. We communicate with radical candor, precision, and compassion to create a shared understanding. We challenge, but once a decision is made, commit fully. We listen attentively, speak candidly.
• Teamwork for Team Win. We believe in win together, learn together. We fly in formation. We cover each by other’s backs. We inspire each other with our energy and attitude.
• Make Magic for our Users. We center around the voice of the customer. With deep empathy for our clients, we create technology that transforms investor experiences.
• Grow at the Edge. We are driven by personal growth. We get out of our comfort zone and keep egos aside to find our genius zones. We strive to be the best we can possibly be. No excuses.
• Innovate with Creative Solutions. We believe that disruptive innovation begins with curiosity and creativity. We challenge the status quo and problem solve to find new answers.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

As part of TIFIN’s technology division, you will Automation QA role, ensure your dedication towards commitment to quality and attention to detail is the single most important aspect of this job role. This position requires you to be a dynamic individual who can not only manage a team of skilled automation engineers but also work as an individual contributor within the same team.

• Deliver all releases on time while ensuring high levels of automation coverage
• Work with QA Team to understand the product requirements and be able to provide automation testing estimates.
• Utilise experience (technical, functional) to create automation test strategies and execution plans to be able to deliver releases as per business needs.
• Create and execute automation test plans to allow for in-sprint automation.
• Review automation test artifacts created by team members.
• Work with development in an agile delivery methodology to capture defects early in the lifecycle by regular execution of regression automation suit.
• Work with automation engineers to get best ROI by identifying automation candidates.

Skills required

• 5+ years of experience in automation testing
• Must have 1+ years of experience working with test frameworks including Selenium and/or Cypress.
• Hands on expertise in various automation framework (bdd, data driven, keyword, hybrid).
• Must be capable of understanding test requirements, planning and creating test suites.
• Strong hold on programming/scripting language (Java/Python/JavaScript)
• Experience in services/API testing and automation (Jmeter/Any tool)
• Good exposure to SQL and Unix
• Proven experience working within an Agile framework
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Solid experience on Test management and Version control softwares (Jira/Git/Bitbucket/Any other)
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) skills.

• WHO ARE YOU:
• Experience with Mobile automation using Appium or similar tools.
• Exposure to Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment.
• Strong team and task management skills
• Exposure in Performance and Security testing

Job Location : Mumbai

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS PACKAGE:

Competitive and commensurate to experience + discretionary annual bonus + ESOPs

About the Tifin Group: The Tifin group combines expertise in finance, technology, entrepreneurship and investing to start and help build a portfolio of brands and companies in areas of investments, wealth management and asset management.

TIFIN companies are centred around the user and emphasize design innovation to build operating systems. We focus on simplifying and democratizing financial science to make it more holistic and integral to users’ lives.

Industry

• experience in algorithm development with a focus on signal processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, classification, data mining, and other areas of machine intelligence.
• Ability to analyse data streams from multiple sensors and develop algorithms to extract accurate and meaningful sport metrics.
• Should have a deeper understanding of IMU sensors and Biosensors like HRM, ECG
• A good understanding on Power and memory management on embedded platform

•  Expertise in the design of multitasking, event-driven, real-time firmware using C and understanding of RTOS concepts
• Knowledge of Machine learning, Analytical and methodical approaches to data analysis and verification and Python
• Prior experience on fitness algorithm development using IMU sensor
•  Interest in fitness activities and knowledge of human body anatomy

What you will do

• Develop high-quality software based on the technical design provided by team lead
• Adherence with software development processes. Demonstrate problem solving skills, and attention to quality and detail
• Perform code reviews and unit testing, validation, and verification testing of program modules
• Develop well managed, high quality, scalable and reusable code using .NET components, web service API’s, database procedures, JavaScript, etc.
• Build automation pipeline (CI/CD) through appropriate tools and scripting
• Debug code, solve incidents and defects. Document unit test plans.
• Adhere toOWASP security standards while coding and regulatory requirements

Who you are

• Experienced Software Developer with 1 to 3 years of total IT experience.
• At least 2 years of development experience with Microsoft technology stack (.Net)
• Good knowledge of software development, agile methodologies, and the following technologies:

C#, http://asp.net/">ASP.NET Core, Web API, HTML/CSS, MVC, WCF, JavaScript, Oracle/SQL Server,AngularJS/ReactJS, Apache Kafka, Mule ESB, Apache Spark, PowerBI, Azure DevOps

• Experience developing highly responsive web and mobile applications (UI/UX) using HTML5/CSS3, W3.CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, XML, Xamarin, etc.
• Familiarity with various operating systems (Linux, Mac OS, Windows)
• Hands-on experience in software development and agile methodologies
• Proficiency in relational databases like SQL Server and Oracle. Knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Google cloud), container and virtualization will be a big plus.
• Familiarity with Continuous integration (Azure DevOps/Jenkins/Hudson) and version control (GitHub, SVN). Knowledge of modern frameworks and design patterns, and test automation tools for Unit and Performance testing.
• Experience creating secure RESTful web services in XML and JSON

• Work as a part of the clients' virtual business team or individually.
• Act as the SPOC (Single Point of Contact) with clients through email, phone or chat.
• Analyze, Plan, Organize and Work/Delegate the tasks to meet deadline and quality requirements.
• Work as a part of the both internal and external clients' extended team.
• Analyze, Plan, Organize and complete the tasks to meet deadline and quality requirements.
• Conduct online research for tasks to acquire results and present them in a manner that meets the expectations of internal/external clients.

• Graduate/Post-Graduate in any discipline
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong customer service attitude
• Desire to learn new things every day
• Good with comprehension and analytical skills
• Good at using search and internet tools like Google, Wikipedia, Yahoo etc.
• Good in handling Office productivity tools such as Microsoft Office
• Willing to relocate to Bangalore
• The job location is Marathahalli and hence candidates staying near by office location or those who are willing to re-locate nearby to office location are encouraged to apply (One way cab provided within permissible limits).

• Candidates with gap of more than 2 years in their education or professional experience will not be considered for the position.
• Candidates should have all relevant education & experience related documents.

MUST Have

• 4-6 years of experience in application software development ( UI stack development )
• Sound knowledge of computer science fundamentals
• Proven ability to design and implement a complex (scalable and distributed ) application software on linux platform
• Hands on any of the language reactjs, Javascript
• Expert in software processes and tools ( Agile, CI/CD, Git, Jenkins )

Good to Have

• Experience in application migration to cloud