Lead QA Engineer

About the company:

Our Client is a food platform based in India that focuses on bringing together digital-first brands, experiences, and retail destinations to cater to discerning consumers. Led by industry stalwarts, who previously operated Foodhall, a leading gourmet food retail chain in India, and former Managing Director of Future Consumer Limited, the company aims to shape the narrative around food in the country.

To further enhance its presence, the company is opening a chain of retail stores targeting young gourmet food lovers in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, and Bangalore. These interactive spaces will offer epicurean treats for cooking, eating, and entertaining, and will feature better-made, new-to-market products and new-age brands. Orders placed on digital platforms will be fulfilled through a same-day home delivery network, and the stores will be supported by state-of-the-art commissaries in the three cities.

Our client is backed by a venture-backed, digital-first brand development platform. They partner with passionate entrepreneurs to build authentic, profitable, and experience-led brands that cater to the new generation of Indian consumers. Their team combines their collective learning and experience with data science, digital ethnography, and technology platforms to create brands that connect with consumers.

What you’ll be doing?

• Fluent in Backend web application development (Node.JS, PHP with good knowledge of Magento).
• Fluent in Database (MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB) design and management.
• Substantial experience with high throughput web services.
• Experience in using cloud platforms like Amazon.
• Knowledge of Frameworks like Express, Koa, Zend, etc.
• Basic Understanding of Front End development (JavaScript, CSS, Ajax, React.JS, Boot Strap, HTML 5)
• Fluent in various automation testing, performance testing, and deployment tools.
• Decent Understanding of Working on Agile Software Development Methodology.

What you’ll bring?

• We are looking for an experienced Back End developer to be part of a diverse, fast pace and energetic team.
• The candidate will be expected to design a scalable client-server framework, build database-intensive reporting modules, scalability and reliability of existing applications and services, and provide troubleshooting and 2nd-tier support for existing applications.
• The candidate should be a self-starter, who is proactive, positive, flexible, and a good team player.
• Minimum qualifications: B.Tech./B.E. in CS, IT, or ECE from a reputed college. 1-3 years of experience in Backend software development

Why work with us?

• You will be part of our founding team and get your hands dirty in the 0-1 stage of building a D2C brand.
• You will work with a solid set of people from diverse backgrounds.
• You will independently lead projects and have ownership of your deliverables.
• You will be pushed out of your comfort zone and watch your learning curve spike

• Coordination and completion of projects on time within budget and scope. 
• Oversee all aspects of projects. Set deadlines, assign responsibilities, and monitor, and summarize the progress of the project. 
• Prepare reports for clients and internal stakeholders regarding the status of the project. 
• Work on the estimations for a given project. 
• Identify the risks and provide a mitigation plan in a timely manner. 
• Generation of reports, invoices, and billing. 
• People's Management includes ensuring optimal retention of talent and improving the performance of team members through continuous feedback.
  
  

• Overall 8-12 years of experience and at least 4 years of project delivery management experience. 
• Should have worked on SaaS products and have experience in handling a team (at least 10-15). 
• Sound knowledge of SDLC, and quality process with respect to delivery management.
• Experience in Mobile application development and programming knowledge is a plus.
• Good presentation skills, Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to interact with customers at all levels

Tasks/Responsibilities:

• Refine the functionality of webshop design and its features.
• Designing and building the website front-end.
• Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration.
• Generating/Integrating WordPress themes and plugins.
• Conducting website performance tests.
• Troubleshooting content issues.
• Monitoring the performance of the live website.

Requirements:

• Proven work experience as a WordPress developer(themes & plugins).
• Knowledge of front-end technologies including CSS3, JavaScript, HTML5, and jQuery.
• Knowledge of code versioning tools including Git and SVN.
• Knowledge of deployment of WordPress installations.
• Experience working with debugging tools such as Chrome Inspector and Firebug.
• Good understanding of website architecture and aesthetics.
• Ability to drive given topic.
• Good communication skills.

We Offer:

• Freedom to realise your own ideas & individual career & development opportunity.
• A motivating work environment, flat hierarchical structure, numerous company events which cannot be forgotten and fun at work place with flexibilities.
• Professional challenges and career development opportunities.

• Design AWS data ingestion frameworks and pipelines based on the specific needs driven by the Product Owners and user stories…
• Experience building Data Lake using AWS and Hands-on experience in S3, EKS, ECS, AWS Glue, AWS KMS, AWS Firehose, EMR
• Experience Apache Spark Programming with Databricks
• Experience working on NoSQL Databases such as Cassandra, HBase, and Elastic Search
• Hands on experience with leveraging CI/CD to rapidly build & test application code
• Expertise in Data governance and Data Quality
• Experience working with PCI Data and working with data scientists is a plus
• At least 4+ years of experience in the following Big Data frameworks: File Format (Parquet, AVRO, ORC), Resource Management, Distributed Processing and RDBMS
• 5+ years of experience on designing and developing Data Pipelines for Data Ingestion or Transformation using AWS technologies

• IMMEDIATE JOINEE
  BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent work experience. MS degree is preferred.
• 9+ years development experience in JAVA (using OO Design and Analysis, Design Patterns, etc.)
• High experience in Java 8 with hands on coding Required.
• 4+ years’ experience building highly scalable, distributed and reliable Restful Web Services using Spring, Jersey, etc.
• Should have knowledge on Cloud applications preferably on AWS.
• Knowledge on building Front end applications using JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3.
• Experience with relational DBs like MySQL and NoSQL Database like MongoDB, Solr/Lucene will be a plus.
• Experience with Tomcat, Jax-RS, REST, JPA, IntelliJ, Groovy, Hibernate is must.
• Experience with build technologies like Gradle, Jenkins will be a plus.
• Experience with Test Driven Development using TestNG/Junit testing frameworks.
• Experience working with version control like GIT.
• 8+ years (or more) experience shipping quality code
• 4+ years’ experience with leading frontend frameworks like Angular 1 to 8 or ReactJS, etc.
• Experience on Ionic Framework, Cardova
• Experience contributing front-end code to a publicly available, consumer-focused web application.
• Solid experience and understanding of HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript (vanilla JS and popular libraries like Underscore.js and jQuery)
• Experience with REST-based APIs
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