QA Lead

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced IT Department Head with strong communication skills, a technical background, and leadership capabilities to manage our IT team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for overseeing the organization's IT infrastructure, ensuring the security and efficiency of our systems, and maintaining compliance with relevant industry standards. The role requires an

in-depth understanding of cloud technologies , server management, network security, managed IT services, and strong problem-solving capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:-

The Information Technology Manager is a proactive and hands-on IT Manager to oversee and evolve our technology infrastructure

· In this role, the Manager will manage all aspects of our IT operations, from maintaining our current tech stack to strategizing and implementing future developments

· This position will ensure that our technology systems are modern, secure, and efficient, aligning IT initiatives with our business goals

· IT Strategy & Leadership: Develop and execute an IT strategy that supports the company's objectives, ensuring scalability and security

· Infrastructure Management: Oversee the maintenance and optimization of our Azure Cloud infrastructure, AWS Cloud, and Cisco Meraki networking systems

· Software & Systems Administration: Manage Microsoft 365 administration.

· Cybersecurity: Enhance our cybersecurity posture using tools like Sentinel One, Sophos Firewall and other tools

· Project Management: Lead IT projects, including system upgrades and optimizations, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to budgets

· Team Leadership: Mentor and guide a small IT team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional development

· Vendor Management: Collaborate with external vendors and service providers to ensure optimal performance and cost-effectiveness

· Technical Support: Provide high-level technical support and troubleshooting for IT-related issues across the organization and client in USA Other duties as needed

· IT Audit & Compliance: Conduct regular audits to ensure IT processes are compliant with security regulations and best practices (GDPR, SOC2, ISO 27001), ensuring readiness for internal and external audit.

· Documentation: Maintain thorough and accurate documentation for all systems, processes, and procedures to ensure clarity and consistency in IT operations.

Preferred Skills:-

. Experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar security frameworks.

. Experience with advanced firewall configurations and network

architecture.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Paid sick time

Shift:

• Day shift

Work Days:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• IT management: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: In person

Lead Software Engineer - Backend

It is evolving the way people discover the world by connecting them with exceptional experiences in their city at the push of a button. We are building a magical platform that gets everyone to head out and have fun in a matter of seconds; no matter where you are and what you want to do. We are combining a delightful product experience, data-driven decisions, sophisticated supply side logistics network, and world-class operations to solve a huge basic human problem: how do we have a good time?

We’re growing rapidly with over $200M in annualized sales, 150,000 monthly transactions and profitable unit economics. We are backed by some of the finest investors in Silicon Valley & India. 

We like to solve real-world problems in the simplest, most elegant manner possible. We’re looking for a QA Lead with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology. You should also be capable of building and mentoring a fast-growing passionate, young, and talented team. We love folks who have a sense of humor and know how to have fun.Dream, build and iterate. That's our mantra. Because good just isn't good enough.

👩‍💻 The Role

• Full responsibility of designing and building core modules on the application and infrastructure layer.
• Lead a fast-growing team of young, passionate, talented and fun loving superstars.
• Solve challenging architectural and design problems.
• Get your hands dirty with clustering, replication, databases, build systems and infrastructure automation etc.
• Be responsible for building concurrent, performant and scalable services which will power the entire Headout ecosystem.
• Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.

🌟 Our Dream Engineer

• A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
• You love working with people and have worked in a lead position in the past.
• A knack for writing the most performance optimized code along with it being modular and scalable.
• No challenge is too big to solve; love thinking product and excited to ideate & build stuff all by yourself.
• You're interested in being an early employee at a growing company, with the influence and responsibility that entails.
• You have broad and deep knowledge across a variety of contemporary technologies.

💝 We like

• Strong CS fundamentals, good working knowledge of classic algorithms and data structures.
• 2+years experience developing server-side technologies using any language or framework.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and people management skills.
• Experience working with Spring, Relational Databases, Concurrent Programming, NoSQL flavors, AWS.
• Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems and databases.
• Experience with setting setting up systems and infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of how the web works and its underlying communication protocols.
• People who can't live without solving that algorithm problem that they just stumbled upon.
• People who will give up anything to squeeze in that last bit-level performance.
• Anything else than can surprise us.
• Nice to Haves: An interest in travel, local experiences & hospitality.

• Drive the goals by understanding the requirements and preparing a robust test strategy
• Analyze and understand existing automation framework and automate manual test cases
• Upgrade/create a new reusable test framework using Java, Cucumber, Selenium as per functional requirements
• Analyze the business requirements and craft detailed level of test scenarios/cases/plan
• Carry out functional and regression testing
• Be responsible to handle multiple projects at the same time
• Complete STLC process with deliverable on time within excellent quality
• Requirement/Status communication with all the stakeholders like development team, business, product delivery team, senior management
• Good Experience in testing API and service side components
• BFSI Domain experience is MUST
• Highlight/Escalate the risk and issues in a timely manner In this role you will:
• Be responsible and held accountable for the quality of products developed by IT for our internal and external customer
• Help improve QA practices and processes by creating and maintaining documentation, QA templates, and other related artifacts
• Work in an Agile environment with distributed teams
• Maintain QA artifacts (such as documentation, etc.) and report QA metrics
• Be heavily involved with the Development teams during development, UAT teams during the acceptance testing, and Release Team for deployments and post-deployment QA
• Manage defect tracking for all software projects and assist with defect management by providing periodic updates to senior management as requested
• Be responsible for all QA resources
• Must remain up-to-date with relevant information and security practices within the industry and security training annually.

Skills:

• we are looking for a senior profile, a person having experience in testing API (Enterprise level product)
• Working knowledge of build automation tools like Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, etc.
• Expertise in version control tools like GIT.
• Using IDE's like IntelliJ, Eclipse, Spring tool suit, etc
• Expertise in web services technologies such as Restful with microservices architecture
• Good knowledge of SQL Database n
• Excellent communication, documentation, and organizational skills.
• Experience in a complex, large volume operation
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Plan the timelines of delivery details of the Group/ Division project activities

About Planview

As the global leader in work and resource management, Planview makes it easier for all organizations to achieve their business goals. We provide the industry’s most comprehensive solutions designed for strategic planning, portfolio and resource management, Lean and Agile delivery, product portfolio management, capability and technology management (enterprise architecture), innovation management, and collaborative work and project management. Our solutions span every class of work, resource, and organization to address the varying needs of diverse and distributed teams, departments, and enterprises. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Planview’s more than 700 employees serve over 5,000 customers worldwide through a culture of innovative technology leadership, deep market expertise, and highly engaged communities. For more info., visit us at http://www.planview.com/">planview.com.  

Responsibilities

• Work on cutting-edge web technologies to make a powerful impact on 1M+ enterprise users
• Be part of a growing team that will solve complex testing problems by designing and developing a scalable test automation framework for cross-product applications which span across different Planview products
• Work in an agile engineering team writing maintainable and scalable tests for software components and influencing team decisions 
• Develop reliable automated tests and test suites for backend APIs and high-affinity user flows to detect early bug signals
• Develop and track measurements to understand and drive test effectiveness and coverage
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Preferred Qualities

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field – equivalent work experience will be considered
• Experience in building Test Automation Frameworks using Webservices Automation or UI automation using Selenium/cypress
• Expertise in programming languages such as Java, Python or C#
• Experience in white box testing (integration / unit tests)
• Experience in continuous integration processes implementation by building CI / CD pipeline using Jenkins or Github actions
• Solid understanding of software design principles for building test frameworks
• Creative design thinking to build utilities / develop test frameworks
• Knowledge of software engineering practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes and testing
• Experience and good working knowledge of SQL/NoSQL Databases is an added advantage
• Experience in performance testing is a plus

At Planview, you will collaborate closely with talented people in Bangalore and the US, with lots of opportunities to inspire and be inspired.