Quality Check Role

We are seeking enthusiastic and driven interns with strong technical expertise to join our team in Bangalore. The ideal candidate should possess:

• Proficiency in Python programming.
• Hands-on experience with Automation Anywhere, UiPath, and A360.
• A solid engineering background.
• Ability to join immediately and work collaboratively on challenging projects.

This is an excellent opportunity to gain practical experience and grow your skills in automation and programming.

What you need to have:

• Elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end-users.

• Proven experience with writing business documents such as proposals, Statement of work, and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development
• Demonstrated project management skills and project management software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources

• Collaborates with the client, Tech Head(s), and Dev Team to determine project scope, vision, challenges, risks, and assumptions
• Clearly identify and periodically document project stakeholders and establish customer groups, as well as their characteristics.
• Conducts interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
• Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
• Works with stakeholders and the project teams to prioritize collected requirements using Agile methodologies.
• Researches, reviews, and analyzes the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.
• Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
• Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team.
• Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
• Develops and conducts peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are accurately interpreted.
• Assists with the interpretation of customer requirements into feasible options, and communicating these back to the business stakeholders.
• Manages and tracks the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.
• Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements — verbally or through written documentation — to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
• Getting project sign off from stakeholders upon completion of a phase/project

• Ensure adherence towards PMO and CMMI processes
• Helps PMO in process enhancement, roll-out, tracking, and reporting
• Demonstrated project management skills and project management software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources

• Provides guidance and/or instruction to junior staff members.

About us:

Strata is a commercial real estate investment platform that offers investors the opportunity to invest in pre-leased commercial assets such as offices, warehouses, and retail spaces across India.

We are one of the fastest-growing PropTech platforms in India and are backed by Elevation Capital, Mayfield, Kotak Investment Advisors, Gruhas (a venture by Nikhil Kamath of Zerodha) and DLF Family Office.

Our headquarter is in Bangalore, India.

We are a small yet close-knit team of 35+ people.

About you:

You have a knack for product and strongly equipped with engineering skills to make it a reality. You don’t jump into implementation unless you have clearly understood the problem/requirements and have a written design. You don’t hesitate asking questions and giving critical reviews while respecting others’ opinions. You are a fearless engineer, and not afraid to fail, not on production though ;) You have a strong sense of ownership. You have a startup experience. You don’t feel annoyed if required to work on off days in case of production incidents (no development).

Your responsibilities:

You will primarily work on the backend maintaining the existing platform and writing new enhancements and features. Apart from your own features, as a senior member of the team you will be expected to be actively involved in overall design discussions and peer code reviews. You will factor in extensibility, maintainability, scalability and security in designs and code. You will ensure that best engineering practices are followed. You will support your team members when they are facing challenges, and mentor them when appropriate. You will strive for overall engineering excellence.

Must-have Skills:

• 4-8 years of total experience
• 2+ years of experience in Django and DRF. You must be pro at it. The team will be looking up to you for making most out of DRF.
• Designing and building  scalable web applications
• Good understanding of REST principles
• SQL database design and queries
• Working knowledge of AWS

Good-To-Have Skills:

• Angular or any other JavaScript frontend framework
• Designing microservices
• DevOps experience

FAQ's.

1. Your technology ingredients?

Programming languages:
Our backend is written in Python using Django framework. And the frontend is in AngularJS. Currently there is no mobile app.

Infrastructure:
We are an AWS shop and use their services for most needs, Docker for containerization and ECS as orchestrator, RDS as database, S3 for storage and SQS as messaging backend.

Other tools:
BitBucket for Git and CI/CD pipeline, Trello for project management; and Google Meets and Slack for communication.

2. Your hiring plan?

Currently the engineering team comprises of 3 engineers, and we plan to grow it to 8 by the end of 2021.

3. Your Interview process?

We will try to finish the process within two weeks. In case we can’t go ahead with  your candidature, we will clearly and immediately let you know. But in case of competing applications, we may request you to wait for a week or two.

1. 15 minutes introductory call to discuss requirements and expectations
2. 30 minutes online coding assignment on a screen sharing session
3. 1 hour technical interview covering problem solving, code review and aptitude
4. 15 minutes call with co-founder for final discussion

In case of inability to come to a conclusion from either side, we may go for an additional round.

4. Your WFH and WFO policy?

Due to Covid-19 the team is working from home and will continue till March-2022. After that we will work from the Bangalore or Pune office (yet to be finalised). You should be open to relocate to any of the cities.

5. Your funding status?

In March 2020, Strata raised $1.5 million in seed funding; and $6 million in Series-A in July 2021.

• 15+ years of experience in the IT / ITES industry.
• Highly enthusiastic and energetic delivering sessions in virtual delivery platforms
• Experience in leading initiatives around business transformation incorporate
• Facilitation experience delivery topics around Digital / Agile / Design Thinking
• Experience in delivering leadership programs for Mid to Senior level audiences.
• Highly aware of technology trends across industries
• Familiar with platforms such as WebEx, Zoom, MS Teams
• Learner centricity

Desirable areas

• Industry certifications on Digital / Design Thinking / Agile related areas
• Instructional Design and content development skills
• Managed P&L responsibilities
• Awareness of the latest tech trends such as AI, IoT, Blockchain, ML

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Management of facilitator eco-system
• Identify sourcing strategies to onboard new facilitators with a practitioner background
• Collaborate with Operations and Finance team to ensure Facilitators costs are within budget
• Guide team to ensure timely NDA and Pricing contract documentation
• Guide team to ensure timely renewal of pricing contract documentation
• Ensure facilitators are provided Train the trainer service live / online
• Ensure facilitators are assessed for their teach-back process
• Ensure timely certification and readiness of pool of facilitators at a global level
• Resolve facilitator grievances by collaborating with key stakeholders
• Upskill on latest products for self and other existing facilitators
• Deliver 8 to 10 sessions per month on Leading Now and Leading Next themes
• Create an eco-system of facilitators across industries
• Oversee and report metrics for improving experience through dashboards and analysis
• Good working knowledge of MS Office tools, Eg Word, Excel, and Powerpoint