Quality Analyst

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Develop, record, and maintain cutting-edge web-based PHP applications
• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the User Experience (UX) team
• Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools
• Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, and schedules, along with technical and process issues
• Coordinate with co-developers and keep project manager well informed of the status of development effort and serve as liaison between development staff and project manager

Skills:

• Experience in design and system architecture and can write 
• efficient, testable, and reusable code
• OOP Concepts
• Knowledge of PHP
• Knowledge of MySQL
• Ability to work on different backend technologies
• Experience with Git, Slack (Optional)
• Experience with Laravel Framework will be a huge plus point

• Driving the cloud Solutioning ( AWS, Azure , Hybrid Cloud) activities for large complex deals which involve multiple service lines and / or technology domains
• Drive the translation of complex business initiatives into innovative business- technology solutions and ensure consistency across traditional solution boundaries
• Work with Internal stakeholders, Customer stakeholders and Project Managers to understand inefficiencies in clients existing business processes and applications and recommend solutions
• Supports the Global Sales Lead in engaging with senior level customers in either first meetings, or early stages to help shape and design early propositions, assisting to build the pipeline
• Ensure that the solution translated from business objectives is fit for purpose and clearly demonstrates value for money. The solution executive should be able to be confidently explain this to CxO level customer
• Lead a bid team, combining on- shore and off- shore solution architects to design an affordable, innovative solution which meets a clients requirements and business needs. This solution should fit within the affordability target set together with the Global Sales Leads
• Define solution value proposition and transformational direction which build on the synergies and benefits across service offers
• Provide expertise on commercially structuring deals to differentiate from the competition
• Excellent understanding of the competitor landscape, providing insight into the sales plan on how to beat competition
• Work alongside Global Sales Leads, generating future pipeline
• Ensure that the proposed solution covers strategy, partners (such as AWS, Azure, Google, Hybrid Cloud), stakeholder management as well as the actual solution covering Business, Application and Infrastructure as well as commercial aspects (in terms of value for money and not commercial costing etc.)
• Consultative approach, strong business acumen and commercial awareness, with the ability to translate business issues into relevant technical solutions and competitive propositions
• Recent experience in working for a Tier 1/2 Technology Services Provider or major Cloud Services provider in a pre- sales solutioning role
• Proficient in the Pre- Sales Solutioning Process lead by 3rd Party Advisors
• Prior experience leading, costing and implementing large complex Infrastructure Technology Outsourcing (ITO) pursuits, preferably 50M TCV with a large technology transformation component i.e. workload migration to Public Cloud, data center consolidations, etc.
• Strong proficiency creating business willing solutions aligned with key market growth areas; Public/Hybrid Cloud, Cyber security
• Demonstrated ability to communicate (written verbal) effectively and to influence at CxO level

Cloud Skills

• Experience and/or Certification: AWS - Solution Architect, Microsoft - MCSA/MCSE would be advantageous
• AWS , AZURE , Google Cloud Hybrid Cloud , Cloud Infrastructure , Private Cloud

About Kloud9:

Kloud9 exists with the sole purpose of providing cloud expertise to the retail industry. Our team of cloud architects, engineers and developers help retailers launch a successful cloud initiative so you can quickly realise the benefits of cloud technology. Our standardised, proven cloud adoption methodologies reduce the cloud adoption time and effort so you can directly benefit from lower migration costs.

Kloud9 was founded with the vision of bridging the gap between E-commerce and cloud. The E-commerce of any industry is limiting and poses a huge challenge in terms of the finances spent on physical data structures.

At Kloud9, we know migrating to the cloud is the single most significant technology shift your company faces today. We are your trusted advisors in transformation and are determined to build a deep partnership along the way. Our cloud and retail experts will ease your transition to the cloud.

Our sole focus is to provide cloud expertise to retail industry giving our clients the empowerment that will take their business to the next level. Our team of proficient architects, engineers and developers have been designing, building and implementing solutions for retailers for an average of more than 20 years.

We are a cloud vendor that is both platform and technology independent. Our vendor independence not just provides us with a unique perspective into the cloud market but also ensures that we deliver the cloud solutions available that best meet our clients' requirements.

Responsibilities:

●       Studying, transforming, and converting data science prototypes

●       Deploying models to production

●       Training and retraining models as needed

●       Analyzing the ML algorithms that could be used to solve a given problem and ranking them by their respective scores

●       Analyzing the errors of the model and designing strategies to overcome them

●       Identifying differences in data distribution that could affect model performance in real-world situations

●       Performing statistical analysis and using results to improve models

●       Supervising the data acquisition process if more data is needed

●       Defining data augmentation pipelines

●       Defining the pre-processing or feature engineering to be done on a given dataset

●       To extend and enrich existing ML frameworks and libraries

●       Understanding when the findings can be applied to business decisions

●       Documenting machine learning processes

Basic requirements: 

●       4+ years of IT experience in which at least 2+ years of relevant experience primarily in converting data science prototypes and deploying models to production

●       Proficiency with Python and machine learning libraries such as scikit-learn, matplotlib, seaborn and pandas

●       Knowledge of Big Data frameworks like Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive, Flume, etc

●       Experience in working with ML frameworks like TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV

●       Strong written and verbal communications

●       Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills.

●       Expertise in visualizing and manipulating big datasets

●       Familiarity with Linux

●       Ability to select hardware to run an ML model with the required latency

●       Robust data modelling and data architecture skills.

●       Advanced degree in Computer Science/Math/Statistics or a related discipline.

●       Advanced Math and Statistics skills (linear algebra, calculus, Bayesian statistics, mean, median, variance, etc.)

Nice to have

●       Familiarity with Java, and R code writing.

●       Exploring and visualizing data to gain an understanding of it, then identifying differences in data distribution that could affect performance when deploying the model in the real world

●       Verifying data quality, and/or ensuring it via data cleaning

●       Supervising the data acquisition process if more data is needed

●       Finding available datasets online that could be used for training

Why Explore a Career at Kloud9:

With job opportunities in prime locations of US, London, Poland and Bengaluru, we help build your career paths in cutting edge technologies of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science. Be part of an inclusive and diverse workforce that's changing the face of retail technology with their creativity and innovative solutions. Our vested interest in our employees translates to deliver the best products and solutions to our customers.

• 5+ years of industry experience in administering (including setting up, managing, monitoring) data processing pipelines (both streaming and batch) using frameworks such as Kafka Streams, Py Spark, and streaming databases like druid or equivalent like Hive
• Strong industry expertise with containerization technologies including kubernetes (EKS/AKS), Kubeflow
• Experience with cloud platform services such as AWS, Azure or GCP especially with EKS, Managed Kafka
• 5+ Industry experience in python
• Experience with popular modern web frameworks such as Spring boot, Play framework, or Django
• Experience with scripting languages. Python experience highly desirable. Experience in API development using Swagger
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Familiarity with continuous integration, Jenkins

Responsibilities

• Architect, Design and Implement Large scale data processing pipelines using Kafka Streams, PySpark, Fluentd and Druid
• Create custom Operators for Kubernetes, Kubeflow
• Develop data ingestion processes and ETLs
• Assist in dev ops operations
• Design and Implement APIs
• Identify performance bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and documentation
• Communicate with stakeholders regarding various aspects of solution.
• Mentor team members on best practices

Job title: Engineering Manager

BlueOptima’s vision is to become the global reference for the optimisation of the performance of Software Engineers across all industries. We provide industry-leading objective metrics in software development. We enable large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost, with technology that pushes the limits of what has been done before. 

We are a global company which has consistently doubled in headcount and revenue YoY, with no external investment. We currently are located in 4 countries: London (our HQ), Mexico, India and the US. A total number of 260+ employees (and increasing every day) from 22 different nationalities and with over 25 languages spoken.

We promote an open minded environment and encourage our employees to create their own success story in this high performance environment. 

Location: Bangalore, India

Department: Engineering

Job summary:

We are seeking an Engineering Manager, with experience in developing scalable SaaS applications and leading and managing high performing distributed teams, to join our growing company and be a part of our success story. 

We are looking for an individual with great leadership and team handling skills, strong hands-on experience in software development, and excited to work in a fun and friendly fast paced environment.

Responsibilities and tasks:

• Manage a team (comprising of Software Engineers, Sr. Software Engineers, QA Engineers), including providing technical direction, task allocation, and code reviews.
• Drive technical projects and provide leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment.
• Owns overall planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects.
• Contribute technically to projects.
• Work closely with the Product Management team to ensure we're building the best products which deliver value to our clients.
• Set up best practices for development, champion their adoption
• Work closely with team to estimate and plan projects in an Agile environment

• Managing customer issues and escalations and tracking the Customer SLAs closely
• Defining/evolving and enforcing relevant software development processes for the Engineering team.
• Ensuring that the team complies to the quality standards
• Active communication and coordination with clients and internal stakeholder
• Motivating, mentoring, and helping your team with developing their careers and provide guidance for performance appraisals
• Participate in hiring different roles required within the team

What You Need to Succeed at BlueOptima: 

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 10- 12 years in the software industry and 3-5 years of experience managing customer facing software development teams.
• Minimum of 5 years of software product development experience, and hands on technical work with full life cycle implementations.
• Experience in Web application development / Hosted solutions
• Comfortable guiding teams in an Agile environment
• Should have worked in cross functional teams (product management, development, QA, sales, customers), should be able understand team dynamics and priorities of each functional stakeholder and work with them to meet project goals
• Should be assertive, proficient in resolving conflicts and gains consensus in cross functional teams
• Adaptable to changing business requirements and priorities
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, build effective teams and to motivate, direct and coach team members; ability to manage multi-site teams
• Strong Java, Database fundamentals.
• Knowledge of and experience in, maintaining mission critical applications with 24x7 operations, 5 9’s availability (Desirable)
• Knowledge of AWS, Springboot, ReactJS, Postgres (Desirable)

Why join our team?

Culture and Growth:

• Global team with a creative, innovative and welcoming mindset.
• Rapid career growth and opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company's success.
• Freedom to create your own success story in a high performance environment.
• Training programs and Personal Development Plans for each employee

Benefits: 

• 32 days of holidays (this includes public and religious holidays)
• Contributions to your Provident Fund which can be matched by the company above the statutory minimum as agreed
• Gratuity payments
• Private Medical Insurance provided by the company (Employee + Spouse + 2 Children + 2 Parents)
• 12 Weeks Paid Paternity Leave, 6 months Maternity leave
• Support with childcare costs (50%)
• Work From Home assistance and equipment budget
• Flexible Work from Home policy - 2 days home p/w
• Flexible Work from Long Distance - 4 weeks a year
• International travel opportunities & Global annual meet-up
• High-quality equipment (Ergonomic chairs and 32’ screens)

Key Requirements-

Experience required- 0 to 2 years

1. Having a personal Mac book is preferred.

2. Knowledge of Java, Objective-C, Swift, web technologies, and UI/UX standards (Mandatory)

3. Good understanding of iOS release cycle and familiarity with CI/CD platform and pipelines

4. Knowledge of iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.

5. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools

6. Understanding of Apple's design principles and interface guidelines.

7. Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Roles and Responsibilities :

1. Writing clean and efficient codes for IOS applications.

2. Troubleshooting and bug fixes for applications, to ensure that codes are clean and secure.

3. Developing new features and user interfaces from wireframe models

4. Recommending changes and enhancements

5. Writing clean, readable, and testable codes.

6. Staying up to date with new mobile technologies trends, applications, and protocols.

You can apply here directly-

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Experience: 4+ yrs
Salary: Not Disclosed
Location: Hyderabad

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, design and support implementation of business specific Pega solutions and/or framework
• Responsible for implementing technical solutions on Pega 8.x
• Ability to create reusable components that can be leveraged across the enterprise for providing top-notch user experience
• Ability to translate complex business requirement into functional technical requirements using Pega Systems Smart BPM methodology and DCO tools
• Good hands on implementing PEGA integration services using REST, SOAP, Email etc. Good understanding of PEGA case management features
• Design and implement product features in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders
• Design reusable components, frameworks and libraries
• Ability to interact with business analysts and business team members to refine requirements, Use Cases
• Perform all phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, application design, code development and testing
• Work very closely with architecture groups and drive solutions
• Participate in an Agile / Scrum methodology to deliver high-quality software releases
• Design and develop innovative solutions to meet the needs of the business
• Review code and provide feedback relative to best practices and improving performance
• Troubleshoot production support issues post-deployment and come up with solutions as required
• Mentor and guide other software/Pega engineers within the team
• Experience with troubleshooting Production log files and performance issues
• Responsible for unit testing more complex individual and team deliverables based on established test plans
• Responsible for ensuring an efficient integration of programming deliverables timely builds and overall code quality
• Contributes to the delivery of new applications and to the maintenance and enhancement of existing applications with shared responsibility for the technical issues

Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, or Information Systems or Engineering is required, else in lieu, a demonstrated equivalence in work experience is mandatory.
• Pega Systems Certified Senior System Architect (CSSA)
• 5+ Years of Experience on Pega PRPC (8.x/7.x versions) and Frame worked Case Management
• In-Depth knowledge of Pega Upgrades, Integration, Performance Management and all Pega relevant Tools
• Ability to negotiate and allocate resources appropriately for development and implementation
• Excellent written, communication and presentation skills