QA Engineer

Xoxoday is looking for an AVP of Empuls product. Empuls is an employee engagement SaaS platform focussed on USA & EMEA markets. The Empuls product is going through a 10X to 100X growth journey and we are looking for a seasoned product professional who has experience of taking products from 10X to 100X growth journeys. This role ll report to the CTO of the Empuls product. 

As an AVP Product you will be responsible for the product roadmap, product metrics, feature details, designs and GTM, . This includes defining and prioritizing product roadmap, listening to customers, creating business requirements, driving functional requirements, driving this through development teams, and getting the go-to-market for various product features.

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• Develop business cases for each product feature to demonstrate feasibility including target pricing and margin, addressable and realizable market, SWOT analysis, RICE metrics and go to market. 
• Solve customer problems and build functional, technical, and design specifications for the solution.
• Map the user journey for various customer profiles - simplify and bring more structure and clarity to problem statements which translate into product solutions. 
• Have strong systems thinking - understanding the impact of process/technology decisions and trade-offs in order to achieve the best possible outcomes to solve the problem.
• Holistic approach covering all aspects including edge cases and future possibilities.
• Abreast with the latest Innovations happening in the Employee Experience, Employee Benefits & Workplace culture domain. Experience in the HR Tech industry will be important in this role. 
• Help define the value proposition of the product for the sales team and work closely with the sales-marketing team for GTM and SaaS revenues.

• An enthusiastic individual with 8+ years of product management function in a product or SaaS company.
• Have experience in leading product management of fast-growing products (or) major modules of fast large products (or) been an entrepreneur in the past.
• Strong desire to disrupt, re-invent, and optimize existing processes to build next-generation Enterprise solutions.
• We'll look forward to the technical skills required for a product role along with the soft skills required to manage multiple stakeholder roles.
• Candidates should have strong experience in problem solving, UI/UX, analytics, team management, customer success & sales enablement. 
• Candidates from HR Tech, rewards, and employee benefits experience will be preferred.
• Candidates from IIM, IIT, NIT, BITS, NSIT, and other premier engineering colleges will be preferred.
• Experience in managing onboarding, customer success, and support functions preferred.

Challenging opportunity, tough problems, and a very good growth path. An excellent opportunity to work with a team of highly talented young professionals. We also offer a competitive salary and a whole load of benefits to make your stay enjoyable with Xoxoday.

You will closely work with technology, design, sales and customer care teams. You will report to the CTO of Empuls. You will provide constant updates to the stakeholders of the product.

Xoxoday is a rapidly growing fintech SaaS firm that propels business growth while focusing on human motivation. Backed by Giift and Apis Partners Growth Fund, Xoxoday offers a suite of three products - Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with more than 3500 clients across 10+ countries and over 2.5 million users. Headquartered in Bengaluru, Xoxoday is a 400+ strong team with four global offices in Bangalore, San Francisco, Dublin, Singapore, Dubai.

We look forward to connecting with you. Once we review your resume, the next step will be a discovery call followed by detailed interview rounds. There will be three rounds of interviews. We will prefer candidates who are located in Bangalore and ready to work in hybrid work arrangements (partly in office, partly WFH). 

Job Description of PHP:

Responsibilities:

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Design robust, scalable and secure features
• Collaborate with team members to develop and ship web applications within tight timeframes.
• Write unit and functional test cases.
• Work on bug fixing, identifying performance issues and improving application performance
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Handling complex technical issues

The candidate must have:

• 4+ year of web development experience
• Very good understanding of PHP
• Preferably have experience of some PHP framework like Laravel or CakePHP or Symfony etc.
• Good understanding of Javascript and jQuery. Experience of some JavaScript MVC framework like Angular or ReactJS is a plus
• Experience of having built RESTful services on PHP.
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented Design Principles
• Good knowledge of relational databases and SQL, primarily MySQL
• Familiar with DB design, Query Optimization
• Good understanding of HTML and CSS.
• Experience with Linux/Unix and deployment of PHP applications.

With millions of transactions each month, Animall is one of the world’s fastest-growing agritech companies. We continue to re-imagine and re-engineer the dairy ecosystem in India, and each team member will have significant ownership of the key components that go into this mission

• Work with product managers to find solutions to critical problems, face internal customers, and create requirements.
• Triage and fix critical issues that arise in the field that affect our core product.
• Manage git repositories, pull requests, and review code.
• Communicate properly & promptly with all stakeholders.
• Build a proof-of-concept for new products from scratch.
• Optimize, clean up, and comment on the existing codebase.

• Experience working on the Android platform
• Experienced with MVVM, Kotlin Coroutines, Room and Koin or Dagger
• Experience in designing, development and REST API Integration of Android Applications using Java or Kotlin
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Knowledge of Android APIs and platform capabilities (location-based capabilities within apps)
• Experience with performance tuning of Android Applications

• Experience working with web views and knowledge about best practices for web view based apps

• Solving real business needs of our internal customers using your software engineering and analytical problem-solving skills.
• You love architecting and building a robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure.
• Live and grow the Animall https://www.notion.so/Our-Culture-2ec96ec0e96b427b9187cc94cdd61b28">Culture

• A fast paced environment to learn and grow. You’ll get opportunities to represent the company in events like Devoxx, Google Developer Days India etc.
• Very high autonomy; freedom to take risks, to experiment and to fail.You’ll collaborate with product managers and designers, data scientists and algorithm experts, even dairy farmers, to build exciting new features
• An opportunity to work on something that really matters. Check out the reviews for our app.
• Very high transparency.
• We pay top of market with excellent benefits
• Personal CFO Services with IndMoney.
• Employee assistance program- Counselling and consultation services for work and home- life topic
• Group medical insurance family floater for Employee, spouse and kids

• Job Title - Software Engineer - Frontend

• Reports Into - Lead Frontend Web Developer

• Location - Hybrid / Bangalore

A Little Bit About Kwalee….

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with well over 900 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade and Scathe.

What’s In It For You?

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm

• Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best

• Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win 

• Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA

• Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind

• On site gym - take care of yourself

• Relocation support - available

• Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Robot Wars

• Pitch and make your own games on https://www.kwalee.com/blog/inside-kwalee/what-are-creative-wednesdays/">Creative Wednesdays! 

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As a Software Engineer - Frontend you’ll be part of the Frontend team, implementing beautiful web designs made by our designers to keep both our site and the internal web-based tools we use fresh and up to date on top of working on new projects alongside this, there is always something new and interesting to work on. 

Your Team Mates

The frontend team consists of both our frontend developers and designers, we work closely with all parts of the business to create tools that vary across the whole company, from the publishing team to create a portal for people to submit games, the marketing team on things like our website, all the way to our internal teams for things like administration and analytics.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

• Implementing designs for our website/web tools created by our design team

• Create and update interactive interfaces used throughout the company

Your Hard Skills

• Minimum 2 years browser-based programming experience

• A proven track record of programming high quality and innovative web pages using Javascript, HTML5 & CSS3 and relevant frameworks (ideally ReactJS but could also be others e.g. AngularJS, NodeJS, Handlebars, jquery, gulp)

• An excellent working knowledge of various programming languages, databases and scripting tools including at least one of bash, MySQL, CouchBase, Python, Java, C#, JSP, PHP

• A creative mindset motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best

• Interest in mobile games

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues. 

We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.

A Little More About Kwalee

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.

Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.

We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France. 

We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy: Develop and communicate product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Requirement Gathering: Identify and prioritize product requirements through user research.
• Project Planning and Management: Define project goals, milestones, and manage timelines.
• Data Management: Oversee data collection, storage, and quality assurance.
• Machine Learning Models: Collaborate on AI algorithm development and model training.
• User Experience (UX): Advocate for intuitive and user-friendly AI product interfaces.
• Product Launch and Adoption: Plan and execute successful product launches.
• Performance Monitoring and Improvement: Track metrics and propose enhancements.
• Stakeholder Communication: Facilitate communication between technical and non-technical teams.
• Market and Industry Awareness: Stay informed on AI trends and regulatory requirements.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, data science, or related fields with 5+ years’ experience as a product manager and at least 2 years in AI domain.
• Technical Knowledge: Strong understanding of AI, machine learning, and data analysis.
• Product Management Experience: Previous experience in product management or related roles.
• AI Domain Expertise: Proficiency in AI applications and ethical considerations.
• Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to analyse complex data and solve problems.
• Communication and Collaboration: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Leadership and Project Management: Strong leadership and project management abilities.
• User-Centric Mindset: Understanding of user needs and usability testing skills.
• Business Acumen: Knowledge of business principles and market dynamics.
• Adaptability and Learning Agility: Openness to new technologies and continuous learning.

• Strong programming skills in JavaScript.
• Experience with ReactJ, frontend frameworks like bootstrap, Jquery.
• Good knowledge in HTML5, CSS, CSS3 and Object Oriented concepts
• Experience in working with RESTful APIS.
• Experience with HTTP, HTTPS and WebSockets.
• Knowledge in version control- Git, Subversion.
• Exposure to OWASP standards and guidelines.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or similar.

• Previous work experience of 4-6 years as an angularJS developer.
• Proficient in CSS, HTML, and writing cross-browser compatible code.
• Experience using JavaScript building tools like Gulp or Grunt.
• Knowledge of JavaScript MV-VM/MVC frameworks including AngluarJS.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Proven experience implementing front-end and back-end JavaScript applications.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Critical thinker and good problem-solver.

• You will work on long-term React Native mobile applications for innovative startups.
• Together with your colleagues and our clients you will analyse requirements and envision a qualitative solution. You will be responsible for the entire development - from architecture to implementation - and deliver user-friendly, performant and well-tested mobile applications.
• You will be part of our continuous improvement culture, hone your skills and share your experience with your colleagues.

• You have at least 3-year experience implementing and deploying React Native apps.
• You developed and published at least one React Native app on Google and Apple Store.
• You are familiar with Google and Apple Store guidelines and compliance.
• You can build pixel-perfect UIs for all mobile platforms.
• You have strong knowledge of Javascript ES6 and higher.
• You know how to make a solid relational data model and have a good knowledge of SQL.
• You have integrated a variety of web API's and understand HTTP.
• You know how to write clean and flexible object-oriented code.
• You have a good understanding of async programming concepts.
• You work daily with tools like Git, NPM and a proper IDE (Webstorm).
• You can deliver POCs, experiments and technology evaluations following design thinking practices.
• You will be contributing towards architecting and building React Native applications, as well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product/project infrastructure.
• You write clean code and are a pragmatic programmer.

• You wish Typescript was the default language of the web.
• You stepped outside the Expo world and have experience with native iOS or Android development. You are familiar with XCode and Android studio, and leverage native APIs for deep integration with Android and iOS.
• You have experience with state management libraries like MobX and Redux.
• You write automated tests and perform end-to-end testing with Detox or Appium.
• You are familiar with functional programming concepts and apply it occasionally.
• You worked with other hybrid mobile platforms like Sencha, HTML5, PhoneGap, etc.
• You have experience with Scrum and Lean methodology