Design Lead

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 Quality Assurance (QA) Lead 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.

Key Responsibilities:

● Lead and mentor the QA team, fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement.

Extensive work in Appium is much needed.

● Develop and implement comprehensive QA strategies, standards, and processes to ensure the highest quality of our software products.

● Oversee the creation and execution of test plans and test cases, ensuring thorough testing of new features and applications.

● Establish and monitor key QA metrics to track and improve software quality and team performance.

● Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including development, product management, and operations to ensure timely and high-quality releases.

● Implement and maintain automated testing frameworks and tools to improve efficiency and coverage.

● Manage the defect tracking process, ensuring clear documentation and effective resolution of issues.

● Conduct regular reviews and audits of QA processes to identify areas for improvement.

● Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices, continuously integrating new techniques and tools into the QA process.

● Ensure the application’s compatibility across different devices and platforms, particularly mobile.

● Develop training programs and materials to enhance the skills and knowledge of the QA team.

Qualifications:

● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

● 4+ years of experience in software quality assurance, with at least 2 years in a leadership or management role.

● Proven experience in developing and implementing QA processes and strategies.

● Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, tools, and processes, including experience with manual and automated testing.

● Proficiency in using QA tools such as JIRA, Selenium, Appium, or similar.

● Extensive experience with testing mobile applications on iOS and Android platforms.

● Strong understanding of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and related tools like Jenkins or GitLab CI.

Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to addressing challenges.

● Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to effectively mentor and manage a team.

● Experience with security testing and understanding of data protection standards is a plus.

● Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products on time.

Why Join Us?

● Opportunity to lead a QA team in ensuring the quality of a cutting-edge product impacting users globally.

● Work in an environment that fosters innovation, collaboration, and professional growth.

● Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.

● Be part of a passionate and driven team dedicated to transforming the way people connect.

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 on.

1. Client Acquisition and Management: Identifying potential clients, reaching out to them, and establishing relationships. This often involves networking, cold calling, or using digital platforms for lead generation.
2. Sales Planning and Strategy: Developing sales strategies and setting sales targets. This could involve market research to identify sales opportunities and tailoring sales approaches to different clients.
3. Presentation and Pitching: Creating and delivering presentations or pitches to potential clients. This requires a deep understanding of the product or service being sold and the ability to communicate its value effectively.
4. Negotiation and Closing Deals: Negotiating terms with clients and closing sales deals. A sales executive needs to be adept at persuasion and handling objections while maintaining positive relationships.
5. Customer Service and Support: Providing ongoing support to existing clients, addressing their needs, and ensuring customer satisfaction. This might include after-sales services or resolving any issues that arise.
6. Market Analysis: Keeping up to date with industry trends, competitor activities, and market conditions. This information can be crucial for adapting sales strategies and identifying new opportunities.
7. Reporting and Administration: Maintaining records of sales, revenue, invoices, and client feedback. Sales executives often use Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software for this purpose.
8. Collaboration and Teamwork: Working closely with other departments, such as marketing and product development, to ensure alignment of strategies and goals.
9. Training and Development: Continuously improving their sales skills and product knowledge. This may involve attending training sessions or workshops.
10. Meeting Sales Targets: Ultimately, a sales executive is responsible for meeting or exceeding the sales targets set by their organization.

• Experience on using Mendix Developer Studio for designing and developing Web-based
  applications
  Knowledge of web services
  Knowledge of export & importing data
  Knowledge of debugging the web services & microflows
  Understanding Data models and SQL Query Building
  Build applications using Schema Domain Entity Design, User Interface Development for
  Desktop, Tablet and Mobile devices
  Knowledge of building Microflows and Nanoflows and using Containers
  Understanding Data models and SQL Query Building
  Strong customer intrfacing and conflict resolution skills

We are looking for a creative Visual Designer to shape and own the user interface design of our Customer Facing documents in form of Presentations, Graphics, cast studies, collaterals, infographics.

For this role, you will collaborate with a cross-functional team, including designers, Bid Managers, Architects and Sales to ensure our branding is consistent and appealing. If you have the ability to convey messages and information through illustrations, graphics and patterns, we’d like to meet you.

Ultimately, you will design aesthetically pleasing Visuals that capture our brand and engage our audiences.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal teams to define user interface requirements
• Combine various colors, shapes, and typography fonts to improve user experience
• Use drawing applications to design original graphics
• Generate clear ideas, concepts and designs of creative assets from beginning to end.
• Use visual design software to refine illustrations
• Apply sketching techniques, like gradients and contrasts to enhance digital images
• Present rough drafts to product managers and/or key stakeholders to gain approval
• Develop prototypes and models to use in various projects to maximize aesthetic consistency
• Brainstorm new ideas, layouts, and graphics
• Stay up to date with design application changes and industry developments

Requirements

• Proven work experience as a Visual Designer, UI Designer, or similar role
• Portfolio of related works (e.g. logos, animations, and graphics)
• Hands-on experience with image editing and digital sketching software, like Photoshop, Indesign and Adobe Illustrator
• Knowledge of HTML/CSS; is a plus
• Strong aesthetic skills with the ability to combine various colors, fonts, and layouts
• Ability to meet deadlines while working on team projects
• Attention to visual details
• BSc degree in Design, Visual Arts, or relevant qualification
• Minimum 3 years’ experience.

Job Overview

                         We are looking for a ML Architect to help us discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data, and help us make smarter decisions to deliver even better products. Your primary focus will be in applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high quality prediction systems integrated with our products. They must have strong experience using variety of data mining and data analysis methods, building and implementing models, using/creating algorithm’s and creating/running simulations.  They must be comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholders and functional teams. The right candidate will have a passion for discovering solutions hidden in large data sets and working with stakeholders to improve business outcomes. Automating to identify the textual data with their properties and structure form various type of document.

Responsibilities

• Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
• Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
• Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Secure and manage when needed GPU cluster resources for events
• Write comprehensive internal feedback reports and find opportunities for improvements
• Manage GPU instances/machines to increase the performance and efficiency of the ML/DL model.

Skills and Qualifications

• Strong Hands-on experience in Python Programming
• Working experience with Computer Vision models - Object Detection Model, Image Classification
• Good experience in feature extraction, feature selection techniques and transfer learning
• Working Experience in building deep learning NLP Models for text classification, image analytics-CNN,RNN,LSTM.
• Working Experience in any of the AWS/GCP cloud platforms, exposure in fetching data from various sources.
• Good experience in exploratory data analysis, data visualisation, and other data preprocessing techniques.
• Knowledge in any one of the DL frameworks like Tensorflow, Pytorch, Keras, Caffe
• Good knowledge in statistics,distribution of data and in supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms.
• Exposure to OpenCV Familiarity with GPUs + CUDA
• Experience with NVIDIA software for cluster management and provisioning such as nvsm, dcgm and DeepOps.
• We are looking for a candidate with 14+ years of experience, who has attained a Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field. They should also have experience using the following software/tools:
• Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
• Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, RDS, AWS-Sagemaker(Added advantage)
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages in any: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.