QA Automation Engineer

SENIOR DATA ENGINEER:

ROLE SUMMARY:

Own the design and delivery of petabyte-scale data platforms and pipelines across AWS and modern Lakehouse stacks. You’ll architect, code, test, optimize, and operate ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving layers. This role requires autonomy, strong engineering judgment, and partnership with project managers, infrastructure teams, testers, and customer architects to land secure, cost-efficient, and high-performing solutions.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Architecture and design: Create HLD/LLD/SAD, source–target mappings, data contracts, and optimal designs aligned to requirements.
• Pipeline development: Build and test robust ETL/ELT for batch, micro-batch, and streaming across RDBMS, flat files, APIs, and event sources.
• Performance and cost tuning: Profile and optimize jobs, right-size infrastructure, and model license/compute/storage costs.
• Data modeling and storage: Design schemas and SCD strategies; manage relational, NoSQL, data lakes, Delta Lakes, and Lakehouse tables.
• DevOps and release: Establish coding standards, templates, CI/CD, configuration management, and monitored release processes.
• Quality and reliability: Define DQ rules and lineage; implement SLA tracking, failure detection, RCA, and proactive defect mitigation.
• Security and governance: Enforce IAM best practices, retention, audit/compliance; implement PII detection and masking.
• Orchestration: Schedule and govern pipelines with Airflow and serverless event-driven patterns.
• Stakeholder collaboration: Clarify requirements, present design options, conduct demos, and finalize architectures with customer teams.
• Leadership: Mentor engineers, set FAST goals, drive upskilling and certifications, and support module delivery and sprint planning.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience: 15+ years designing distributed systems at petabyte scale; 10+ years building data lakes and multi-source ingestion.
•  Cloud (AWS): IAM, VPC, EC2, EKS/ECS, S3, RDS, DMS, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail.
• Programming: Python (preferred), PySpark, SQL for analytics, window functions, and performance tuning.
• ETL tools: AWS Glue, Informatica, Databricks, GCP DataProc; orchestration with Airflow.
• Lakehouse/warehousing: Snowflake, BigQuery, Delta Lake/Lakehouse; schema design, partitioning, clustering, performance optimization.
• DevOps/IaC: Terraform with 15+ years of practice; CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) with 10+ years; config governance and release management.
• Serverless and events: Design event-driven distributed systems on AWS.
• NoSQL: 2–3 years with DocumentDB including data modeling and performance considerations.
• AI services: AWS Entity Resolution, AWS Comprehend; run custom LLMs on Amazon SageMaker; use LLMs for PII classification.

NICE-TO-HAVE QUALIFICATIONS:

• Data governance automation: 10+ years defining audit, compliance, retention standards and automating governance workflows.
• Table and file formats: Apache Parquet; Apache Iceberg as analytical table format.
• Advanced LLM workflows: RAG and agentic patterns over proprietary data; re-ranking with index/vector store results.
• Multi-cloud exposure: Azure ADF/ADLS, GCP Dataflow/DataProc; FinOps practices for cross-cloud cost control.

OUTCOMES AND MEASURES:

• Engineering excellence: Adherence to processes, standards, and SLAs; reduced defects and non-compliance; fewer recurring issues.
• Efficiency: Faster run times and lower resource consumption with documented cost models and performance baselines.
• Operational reliability: Faster detection, response, and resolution of failures; quick turnaround on production bugs; strong release success.
• Data quality and security: High DQ pass rates, robust lineage, minimal security incidents, and audit readiness.
• Team and customer impact: On-time milestones, clear communication, effective demos, improved satisfaction, and completed certifications/training.

LOCATION AND SCHEDULE:

●      Location: Outside US (OUS).

●      Schedule: Minimum 6 hours of overlap with US time zones.

A BIT ABOUT US:

Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.

The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits. Appknox has helped secure mobile apps at Fortune 500 companies with Major brands spread across regions like India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, US, and expanding rapidly. We have secured 300+ Enterprises globally.

We are a 50+ incredibly passionate team working to make an impact and helping some of the biggest companies globally. We work in a highly collaborative, very fast-paced work environment. If you have what it takes to be part of the team, we are excited and let’s speak further.

The Opportunity:

Customer Success contributes to our efforts to enhance and transform the Appknox customer experience via a customer-centric approach (building and maintaining relationships, proactively identifying potential crises that may be detrimental to the user experience, meeting, and exceeding customer expectations). Thus, helping to differentiate Appknox.This position provides the opportunity to tame different use cases across multiple industries and interact with some of the smartest individuals from other fast-growing companies that are our customers. We see this role requiring an intersection of three key skills – Business Acumen & Problem solving, Product Perspective, and People Skills.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a portfolio of current customers in the US region.
• Understand the customer’s goals, establish a trusted relationship and ensure that they are successful in achieving their business goals using Appknox. 
• Own the customer lifecycle journey from onboarding to adoption, renewal, and growth.
• Organize, analyze, prioritize, and share customer feedback with concerned stakeholders to ensure we always consider the voice of the customer.
• Drive live demos and product implementation for your customers when onboarding and support existing clients on issues and tickets.
• Prepare and collate all materials and participate with customers on QBR exercises to address existing gaps and identify new opportunities/use cases.

What An Ideal Candidate Would Look Like:

• 3+ years of working experience in a customer-facing role such as Customer Success, Technical Account Management, Customer Onboarding roles at SaaS companies for internation markets especiallly US market.
• Good communication skills especially with Enterprise customers from around the globes are necessary.
• Must have experience in upselling, cross selling and gauge customer requirements.
• Must have good presentation skills and hold of understanding customer’s business requirements.
• Will have worked on KPIs - customer retention, upsell revenue, cross sell revenue, QBR(Quarterly Business Reviews), referrals.
• Knows how to be the customer's voice in the company to ensure they get maximum value from upcoming product features.
• Must have experience of tracking product usage and instrumentation for Customer Success Management.
• May have experience driving customer advocacy programs along with Sales and Marketing teams to build customer referral, customer case studies and testimonials.

Work Expectations:

Within 1 month

• You should have a complete hold of the product and value customers are getting from it.
• Interact with at least 5 enterprise customers and receive feedback that we should be focusing on.
• Drive at least 1 QBR from existing customers.

Within 3 months

• You need to have a clear understanding of onboarding customers. 
• Suggest CR(Customer Requests) for the Product team to evaluate and consider in the product roadmap.
• Complete atleast 5 QBRs and also engage with 15+ customers from your book of business to ensure they get value++.
• Understand how to build the engagement pipeline for each of the customers you are owning and document all engagements.
• At least 1 referral from existing customers.

Within 6 months

• You should have discipline and document all of the ongoing discussions. 
• Own CS for your accounts and set up a process that needs to be implemented for better customer experience.
• We need an owner for this position who can in future build the CSM team below to drive overall customer success.

Personality traits we really admire:

• Confident and dynamic working persona, which can bring fun to the team, and sense of humor, is an added advantage.
• Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
• Has attention to details and helps identify edge cases.
• Highly motivated and coming up with fresh ideas and perspectives to help us move towards our goals faster.
• Follows timelines and absolute commitment to deadlines.

Interview Process: 

• Round 1 - Profile Evaluation
• Round 2 - Assignment
• Round 3 - Assignment discussion with the CSMs
• Round 4- Hiring Manager
• Round 5 - HR Discussion 

Compensation:

• As per Industry Standards

We prefer that every employee also holds equity in the company. In this role, you will be awarded equity after 12 months, based on the impact you have created.

Please be aware that all your customers will include Enterprises and Fortune 500 companies.

Why Join Us:

• Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
• Great Salary & Equity: We keep up with the market standards & provide pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also provide equity options for our top performers.
• Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to training and developing our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
• Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience, one of the reasons being the open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will give you the opportunity to experience it all first hand.
• Health insurance: We offer health insurance coverage upto 5 Lacs for you and your family including parents.
• Work Schedule: Flexible working environment with remote work if required.

Prepare and maintain daily, weekly, and monthly MIS reports

Data analysis, tracking performance metrics & dashboards

Strong working knowledge of MS Excel (VLOOKUP, Pivot, formulas)

Coordinate with operations and management for data accuracy

Ensure timely and accurate reporting

Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Java

Build scalable RESTful APIs and microservices

Work with Spring / Spring Boot frameworks

Implement business logic, data access layers, and integrations

Optimize application performance, scalability, and security

Write clean, testable, and maintainable code

Perform unit and integration testing

Participate in code reviews and technical discussions

Collaborate with frontend, DevOps, and QA teams

Troubleshoot and resolve produc

Mandatory Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of HTML5, JavaScript ES6 and above.

• Expertise in styling with CSS3.

• In-depth experience with React or a similar front-end framework. Candidates with only hands-on experience will not be considered.

• The ability to design and create reusable UI components.

• Willingness to complete an online coding exercise as part of the interview process.

• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code.

• Understanding of accessibility standards and experience implementing accessibility solutions.

• Experience with Git and version control practices.

• Good communication and collaboration skills.

Desirable Skills:

• Familiarity with Storybook.

• Knowledge of Sass/CSS in JS.

• Experience in developing a UI library with standalone components using React.

• Experience with modern front-end build tools such as Webpack and Babel.

• Knowledge of state management solutions – Context, Redux, Zustand.

• Understanding of server-side rendering and experience with related technologies such as Next.js.

• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.

What you need to have:

Android Developer: 

Position: Android/Java/Kotlin Developer 

 - Selected candidate is required to be a part of the product development team and have to manage both maintenance and enhancement projects & building Mobile Applications using web services. 

Skills & Expertise we look for: 

1. Should be passionate about user interface design and have skills in Native Android with proficiency in Kotlin and Java. 
2. Out of the box thinking to troubleshoot and solve problems 
3. Should be willing to implement latest technology trends like XML/Compose UI, MVVM pattern, Livedata, Data binding, Pagination, Coroutines and other Jetpack components. 
4. Should be able to analyze customer requirements, estimate the effort, provide the deliverable date to the customer and make sure to ship the feature on time 
5. Experience in Release management like creating, merging, maintaining branches, versioning and releasing apps. Should have experience in publishing apps to play store. 
6. Ready to help team members in their technical challenges 
7. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, document, design, and ship new features

Personality we expect: 

1. You love an Agile work culture and deliver as per plan  
2. You're a lively person who's passionate on what you do  
3. You're a nonstop learner and enjoy sharing the learning to your juniors 
4. You're socially connected with the team and helping others team voluntarily. 
5. You're tech- expertise and effective in tools operation automate the regular process. 
6. You're someone who loves problem-working by seeing the occasion in every challenge and you enjoy learning from failures  
7. Honestly share your experience, feedback, challenges, learning and emotions for the day in your daily diary. 
8. Think of user needs instead of system needs 

We are looking for a Recruiter Lead responsible for full-cycle recruiting experience, from talent sourcing and attracting candidates to interviewing and hiring great employees.

You will collaborate with department managers on a regular basis and proactively identify future hiring needs. You will ensure our company attracts, hires, and retains the best employees while growing a strong talent pipeline. You will develop & lead a team of HR recruiters.

Job Roles & Responsibilities

• Sourcing and attracting candidates by using databases, social media, etc
• Designing and implementing the overall recruiting strategy
• Conducting interviews and filtering candidates for open positions
• Perform job and task analysis to document job requirements and objectives
• Prepare recruitment materials and post jobs to appropriate job board/newspapers/colleges etc
• Provide analytical and well documented recruiting reports to the rest of the team
• Act as a point of contact and build influential candidate relationships during the selection process
• Promote the company’s reputation as “best place to work”