QA Automation Tester

Astra Technologies Inc is a US-based startup with a wholly-owned subsidiary in Chennai, India. We are building cryptocurrency trading infrastructure for financial institutions and other businesses. We are seeking candidates with the following skills:

1.   Strong software engineering skills

2.   Proficiency in the Rust programming language

3.   Familiarity with blockchain technology

4.   Excellent communication skills.

We are seeking candidates with varying levels of experience, from developers to senior developers and architects. The company will provide a joining bonus for candidates who join within two weeks of receiving it.

The selected candidates will have the following job responsibilities:

• Build unified API for crypto trading
• Develop products, applications and systems that meet client requirements and are scalable, maintainable, and robust.
• Work with other members of the development team to identify and resolve technical issues.
• Participate in design and code reviews to ensure that best practices are followed.
• Collaborate with other departments, such as marketing and quality assurance, to ensure that our products meet the needs of our customers.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends to ensure that our products remain competitive in the marketplace.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conceptualize and create visual designs for a variety of digital and print marketing materials, including websites, social media, brochures, banners, and advertisements.
• Work closely with the marketing and product teams to create compelling designs to communicate the brand’s message effectively.
• Manage multiple projects from concept through completion under tight deadlines.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and incorporate new techniques and technologies into your design work.
• Provide creative direction and oversight on digital, print, and video graphic projects.
• Collaborate with external vendors and internal stakeholders to ensure that designs meet quality and brand standards.
• Revise and update existing designs to meet changing customer preferences and marketing goals.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, or a related field.
• 3-5 years of professional graphic design experience, preferably within a marketing or advertising agency environment.
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator) and familiar with other design software.
• Strong portfolio showcasing expertise in graphic design, typography, and layout.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team and independently.
• Creative thinker with strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
• Knowledge of the latest design trends, techniques, and technologies.

About us

We are building new-age billing and pricing infrastructure for SaaS companies. As SaaS pricing evolves from vanilla subscription-based models to more granular usage-based models, billing and pricing infrastructure needs to be completely reimagined.

Founders who sold their previous startups to Snapdeal and Gaana respectively. They have experience at organizations such as Google, Basepair, Elevation Capital, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi and Harvard Business School. We are funded by marquee global investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners.

We are building our founding team, and are looking for:

1. engineers who can optimize for quick iteration, fast deployment and having a great developer experience.
2. sales, marketing and growth folks who are excited to push the envelope on GTM (go-to-market) innovation

You should be excited about learning and meaningfully shaping the trajectory of an early-stage startup from Day 0 in its journey.

What you can expect

• Ownership and autonomy: As a founding team member, you have immense responsibility. You own and drive the execution.
• Learning: You will work on challenging problems and engage in some of the most meaningful work of your life.
• You will have to figure out our Go-To-Market playbook from scratch - channels, messaging, discovery, demos, sales cycle, personas, nurturing, partnerships etc. Expect a whole lot of iteration and first principles thinking.
• Culture:
• We don’t take ourselves too seriously, and know how to have fun
• The health of our team is most important to us. Balance work with life - be productive, not busy.
• Being remote first, we thrive via async communication.
• Flexibility: Remote - work from wherever you are in the world; If you prefer coming to the office in person, we have a physical space in Indiranagar, Bangalore 
• Compensation: We offer competitive salaries with generous ESOPs
• Benefits (for full-time roles):
• Health insurance
• Generous vacation policy
• Learning and development budget
• Team events and company offsites
• Maternity and Paternity benefits
• Company laptop

About this role

We are building our founding team and are looking for folks who are excited to get their hands dirty in a 0 to 1 journey. If you are expecting a working playbook that you can execute, we are probably not the right fit for you at this point. However, if you are excited about creating the playbook from scratch, we would love to hear from you 

You will directly work with the founders.

Outbound sales are critical to generating meetings with qualified prospects. You will lay the foundation for and execute our outbound sales strategy.

The primary objective is to generate meetings with qualified prospects by optimizing our outbound sales machinery - iterating on channels, messaging, ICP (ideal customer profile), tooling etc.

• Outbound prospecting
• Find leads from databases (Apollo, ZoomInfo, etc.)
• Reach out to them (manual + automated) via different channels (email, LinkedIn, cold calling, etc.) to generate new sales opportunities
• Identify the needs of prospects, and build long-term, trusting relationships with to qualify leads as sales opportunities
• Iterate to maximize qualified meetings set up
• Experiment with different databases
• Experiment with messaging, level of personalization, length of sequences etc.
• Experiment with channels (email, LinkedIn, cold calls etc.)
• Experiment with different types of collateral
• Experiment with the recipient being targeted - industry, persona, intent signals etc.
• Loop in feedback from prospect responses to emails and cold calls to refine messaging further
• Inbound follow-ups - Respond to inbound leads and automate follow-up communication; iterate on messaging/channels to maximize conversion rate
• Run custom campaigns e.g., writing to VCs for intros to their portfolio companies, writing to conference attendees, scraping forums and job descriptions for relevant leads etc.
• Set up in-house tooling to ensure email deliverability, monitor open rate/reply rate, track domain reputation etc.
• Owning the CRM: Create and update leads, set up pipelines, email templates, and automation. Fully utilize CRM capabilities to nurture leads and deliver timely and relevant content

Key Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience working as a sales development representative at a B2B SaaS company
• The solid hustle and entrepreneurial mindset; Thrive under the uncertainty that comes with an early-stage setup
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience working with lead databases, sales engagement tools etc
• Familiarity with CRM systems and proficiency in managing leads, pipelines, and automation
• Willingness to get your hands dirty and do the grunt work in the early days
• Strong first principles understanding of business fundamentals; Ability to empathize with the end user, and understand their pain points; Ability to understand the product at a granular level
• Adaptable to work across time zones to cater to a global customer base
• Self-driven individual with high ownership and a strong work ethic
• Ability to build, manage and motivate a team
• Previous entrepreneurial experience is a huge plus
• Experience catering to the CFO persona is a plus
• Familiarity with billing systems, CPQ and accounting systems is a plus
• Not taking yourself too seriously :)

Roles & Responsibilities :-

1. Create and optimize digital campaigns on Google Ads & Facebook

2. Prepare and setup Campaign proposals on Google Ads & Facebook platform (such as Search, Display & Remarketing)

3. Measures and reports performance of all digital marketing campaigns and assesses against goals (ROI and KPIs)

4. Positive & Negative Keywords Research & Analysis Quality Score PPC Bid Management, A/B testing of ads & landing pages

5. New Strategies & Recommendations (such as Ad Extensions, Custom audience, dynamic campaigns & dynamic re-marketing etc)

6. Brainstorms new and creative growth strategies through digital marketing

7. Measure and report performance of all marketing campaigns, and assess against goals

8. Identifying new business leads and contributing to the expansion of business activities

9. Preparing campaign budgets and work schedules, as well as setting project deadlines

10. Developing link building strategies.

11. Analyzing keywords and SEO techniques used by competitors.

12. Should play a major role in enhancing brand awareness within the digital space as well as driving website traffic and acquiring leads/customers

Skills Required :-

1.At least 2 years of exp in the advertising industry.

2. leading and managing SEO/SEM

3. Experience in optimizing landing pages and user funnels

4. Experience with A/B and multivariate experiments & In-depth knowledge of Google Ads and Facebook Paid Ads

5. Solid knowledge of website and marketing analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics, SEMRush, etc.)

6. Experience in setting up and optimizing PPC campaigns on all major search engines

7. Knowledge about LinkedIn Marketing

8. Proficiency in campaign management software, such as HubSpot Marketing

9. Extensive experience in client relationship management

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive, design, build and deliver end-to-end solutions using Agile and User Centered Design processes.
• Build a distributed system based on SOLID design principles, concurrency, and distributed data.
• Demonstrate experience  writing enterprise software applications for high frequency and low latency environments.
• Hit the ground running with a typical Java ecosystem (Spring & its sub-projects, dependency injection, maven, hibernate, etc.)
• Maintain quality, modularity and ensure responsiveness of applications.
• Be able to pick up new technologies along their whole development stack including non-java ecosystems.  
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design to launch new features.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design.
• Work with third-party data-sources and APIs.
• Unit-test code for robustness.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Maintain code integrity and organisation.
• Help maintain code quality, organisation, and automation.
• Build a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Have a desire to collaborate to share and learn from your colleagues.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Extensive experience and deep understanding in Java 8, including multithreading, data-structures and algorithms.
• Strong understanding of distributed architecture concepts, Design patterns, SOLID principles, 

SOA, Microservices, Cloud hosting solutions (preferably AWS).

• Good experience in developing REST API and Json, in Java backend applications.
• Hands on experience with SQL, NoSQL concepts.
• Test driven development, including unit test cases using any test framework (JUnit, spring-test, MockMvc), and end-to end testing.
• Excellence in writing and maintaining clear end-user documentation including API specifications, patterns, best practices, and data definitions, including Swagger.
• Good knowledge of GIT.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and build automation tools like Jenkins pipelines for Continuous Integration (CI)/ Continuous Delivery (CD), maven/Gradle
• Experience with Agile software development (e.g., SCRUM or KANBAN) and/ or User Centered design process.
• Experience in working with Angular 6+/ReactJS 16+ & Redux, JSP, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and Javascript will be a plus.

• Assisting in the formulation of strategies to build a lasting digital connection with consumers
• Identifying new opportunities by thorough market research and target top of social media trends
• Planning and monitoring the ongoing company presence on social media (Linkedin, Twitter etc.)
• Launching optimized online adverts through Google Adwords, Facebook etc. to increase brand awareness
• Preparing online newsletters and promotional emails and organize their distribution through various channels
• Planning and directing marketing campaigns
• Optimizing content for the website and social media platforms
• Providing internal reports on a regular basis
• Executing new and creative collaborations among technologies and platforms
• Collaborating with designers to improve user experience
• Acquiring insight in online marketing trends and keep strategies up-to-date
• Maintaining partnerships with media agencies and vendors
• Identify trends and insights

Desired Candidate Profile

• Preferably with a B.Tech+ MBA background from Tier 1 & 2 colleges
• 3-6 years of experience developing and executing B2B & B2C marketing programs covering multiple channels
• Solid technical background, with understanding or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies
• Proven work experience as a Digital Marketing Associate or similar role
• Excellent presentation, organization, time management, and cross-department communication skills
• Ability to quickly adapt to changes and work effectively under pressure
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
• Ability to think strategically and drive the business strategy
• Attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
• Strong problem management skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities
• Ability to interact well with people at all levels within and outside the organization    

Our client is a chain of hospitals that focus on providing high quality healthcare for all. Their hospitals have over 17 centers of excellence across all medical specialties. Through their proprietary technology, hospitals can maintain medical quality standards, give their patients a better experience and also serve them at cheaper prices.

Headquartered in Bangalore, they have their network of hospitals across locations in Bangalore and Chandigarh. Currently they have 40+ hospitals with 2000+ beds. All of their hospitals are accredited by the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH).

Our client is funded by tier-1 investors and has raised a total of $6.3M in funding over 1 round.

• Developing, implementing and maintaining performance management and talent review processes
• Maintaining a deep understanding of the business and culture inside and out so that you can provide strategic HR partnership to the business and the teams you support
• Acting with the employee experience top of mind, continuously seeking feedback, inefficiencies, and maintaining business relationships based on trust and respect
• Resolving employee relations issues; providing coaching and counselling to management and staff; collaborating with legal counsel on issues as appropriate
• Administrating total rewards program
• Designing compensation and benefits packages
• Managing employees’ grievances
• Setting up and running a learning & development function customized for the needs of each function
• Evaluating and improving employee NPS
• Owning overall hiring process and scale to match organization growth

Desired Candidate Profile

• At least 7+ years of experience
• Previous experience in a fast paced startup environment
• Good problem solving skills
• Outstanding communication skills, specifically in written form and presentation and public speaking skills    

• Hands-on experience in Development
• 4-6 years of Hands on experience with Python scripts
• 2-3 years of Hands on experience in PySpark coding. Worked in spark cluster computing technology.
• 3-4 years of Hands on end to end data pipeline experience working on AWS environments
• 3-4 years of Hands on experience working on AWS services – Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, EC2, RDS, SES, SNS, DMS, CloudWatch etc.
• 2-3 years of Hands on experience working on AWS redshift
• 6+ years of Hands on experience with writing Unix Shell scripts
• Good communication skills