SALES EXECUTIVE

A BIT ABOUT US:

Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.

The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits.

Our business includes Fortune 500 companies with Major brands spread across regions like India, Southeast Asia, Middle East, Japan, US, and expanding rapidly. 

What you’ll do:

In this role, you will work closely with our development team and stakeholders to ensure the highest quality of our software products.

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborate with developers to understand the requirements and design comprehensive test plans for our Python backend and Ember.js frontend applications.
• Design, document, and execute test cases to validate API endpoints and frontend features, ensuring all functionalities work as expected and meet quality standards.
• Implement and maintain automated tests using tools like Cypress, integrating them into our CI/CD pipeline to streamline the testing process.
• Identify, report, and track bugs and issues, working closely with the development team to ensure timely resolution and verify fixes.
• Continuously enhance testing practices and methodologies, proposing improvements to optimise test coverage and efficiency.
• Take ownership of the QA process, acting as the sole QA engineer and ensuring that all aspects of quality assurance are effectively managed.

Your contributions will be crucial in delivering high-quality software solutions, enhancing our product’s reliability, and supporting our commitment to excellence.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute test plans and test cases for our backend APIs and frontend application built using Python and Ember.js.
• Perform functional, regression, and end-to-end testing to ensure the quality of product releases.
• Create, maintain, and enhance automated test scripts
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, product managers, etc.) to identify test scenarios and ensure test coverage.
• Conduct API testing using tools like Postman, Rest Assured, or similar to validate backend services.
• Track, report, and prioritize bugs in collaboration with the development team.
• Collaborate with the development team to ensure that quality assurance standards are upheld throughout the development lifecycle, providing feedback on functionality and testing coverage.
• Continuously improve test coverage and automation efficiency.

Requirements:

• 4-6 years of experience as a QA Engineer or in a similar role, with a strong focus on web applications.
• Proven experience with API testing using tools like Postman or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with Ember.js or experience testing web applications built with similar JavaScript frameworks.
• Ability to take ownership of the entire QA process, being the sole QA engineer in the team, with a strong sense of responsibility and initiative.
• Ability to design, document, and execute test cases effectively to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a keen attention to detail, ensuring that issues are identified and resolved efficiently.
• Experience working closely with development teams to address issues and ensure timely resolution.
• Solid understanding of testing concepts, methodologies, and frameworks.
• Familiarity with automation testing tools, such as Cypress, is a plus.
• A self-starter who is eager to grow professionally and expand their role as the team and company scale.

Work Expectations

Within 1 month

• Participate in KT Sessions: Join sessions conducted by the engineering team to understand the existing QA processes, testing frameworks, and project specifics.
• Familiarize with Tools and Technologies: Get familiarized with the testing tools used in the team, such as Postman for API testing and Cypress for automation.
• Shadow the Development Team: Observe the development and deployment processes to gain insight into the overall workflow and integration points.
• Identify Key Areas for Regression: Work with the engineering team to identify critical areas of the application that are most likely to be affected by changes.
• Document Existing Test Cases: Begin documenting regression test cases based on previously identified critical functionalities and known issues.
• Participate in Sprint Meetings: Attend sprint planning and review meetings to align testing efforts with development cycles and project milestones.

Within 2 months

• Develop Test Plans and Cases: Start creating detailed test plans and test cases for both API and frontend testing, based on the existing documentation and understanding.
• Develop and Execute Regression Test Plans: Start creating and executing manual regression test cases for the core functionalities of the application to ensure they remain unaffected by new changes.
• Perform Manual Testing: Begin executing manual tests for APIs and frontend features to reduce the load on engineers and ensure thorough testing.
• Review Existing Automation with Cypress: Assess the current Cypress automation setup handled by the frontend team. Identify areas for additional test coverage or improvements

Within 3 months

• Lead Testing for New Features: Take ownership of manual testing for new features and enhancements, ensuring they meet quality standards before release.
• Join requirement analysis and gathering sessions alongside the engineering team to gain a deeper understanding of feature development
• Expand Regression Coverage: Enhance the regression test suite by including additional test cases as new features are added and as the application evolves. Continuously update and maintain the regression test suite to reflect changes in the application and ensure comprehensive coverage.
• Conduct Regression Testing: Implement the regression test suite as part of the QA process for new feature releases, ensuring that the stability of the existing application is maintained and any issues are promptly identified and addressed.
• Drive Process Improvements: Propose and implement enhancements to testing processes, tools, and methodologies based on your experience and observations.

Personality traits we really admire:

• Great attitude to ask questions, learn, and suggest process improvements.
• Pay attention to details and help identify edge cases.
• Highly motivated and coming up with ideas and perspectives to help us move towards our goals faster.
• Follows timelines and absolute commitment to deadlines.

Interview Process: 

• Round 1 Interview - Profile Evaluation
• Round 2 Interview - Technical Evaluation with Engineering Teams
• Round 3 Interview - Evaluation with Leadership
• Round 4 Interview - HR

Compensation:

• As per Industry/Market Standards

Please be aware that all your customers are Enterprises and Fortune 500 companies.

Why Join Us:

• Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
• Great Salary & Equity: We keep up with the market standards & provide pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also provide equity options for our top performers.
• Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to training and developing our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
• Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience, one of the reasons being the open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will give you the opportunity to experience it all first hand.
• Health insurance: We offer health insurance coverage upto 5 Lacs for you and your family including parents.

Role Overview

As an SEO Analyst, you will join the SEO and Content Strategy team for our e-commerce division. You'll be responsible for execution of critical tasks across Tech, Content and Link Building departments, often working as a part of multiple departments. You'll work on initiatives that help grow organic visibility and traffic of our client websites.

You will report to the account managers and Head of Operations. You will have access to the most advanced SEO processes and SOPs, best-in-industry courses, premier SEO tools, AI tools and platforms. You will learn from and be part of an industry-leading team that delivers actionable insights and makes informed strategic decisions for our clients. You will get a chance to collaborate with India’s youngest and hottest brands that are changing the way we design our lives.

What You'll Do

• Learn the basics of SEO and analytics platforms to understand the execution part of the strategy.
• Conduct keyword research and mapping for product categories, identifying opportunities based on volume, competition, and intent.
• Perform regular competitor analysis including gap analysis, SERP ownership, and feature comparison to identify opportunities and threats. In short, own the organic growth of the clients.
• Collaborate with content teams to develop and optimize product descriptions, collection page content, and SEO-recommended content that matches user search intent. Learn to understand the inner workings of content that drives traffic, and scale the same for multiple clients.
• Monitor and analyze core algorithm updates, conducting impact assessments and developing action plans to maintain or improve rankings.
• Develop strategies for seasonal peaks and promotional periods to maximize organic visibility.
• Work on technical SEO audits to identify issues that are affecting website visibility and learn to recommend the best practices for growth.
• Learn link building tactics and help with acquiring high quality backlinks for clients.

You Will Be A Right Fit If You Have

• Curiosity: Eager to learn, explore new ideas, and ask insightful questions to drive innovation and personal growth.
• High Attention to Detail: Ensures accuracy and quality in work, maintaining high standards in every task.
• Self-Awareness: Understands personal strengths and growth areas, fostering collaboration and adaptability to learn new tasks.
• Self-Disciplined: Manages time effectively and follows ethical code of conduct of a professional environment, delivering consistent results without granular supervision .
• Result-Driven: Focuses on achieving measurable outcomes, with a mindset of exceeding expectations consistently.
• Proactive: Takes initiative, offering solutions and driving progress independently.
• Strong Communicator: Speaks and understands English, effectively conveys ideas, listens actively, and ensures clear, constructive interactions and isn’t afraid to ask questions whenever clarity is required.
• Collaborator: A collaborative team player who values the success of the whole team, in addition to their own.
• Technically Fluent: Possesses a solid understanding and curiosity to learn and use relevant tools and technologies, ensuring efficient execution of tasks, cross-functional communication and problem-solving.

Who are We

GrowthSRC Media is a team of growth hackers, creatives and strategists who help unlock rapid measurable growth for some of India's category-defining brands. We bring together growth marketing, content and creative expertise into a single cohesive team augmented with proven execution and robust data analytics that propel organic growth for our clients. 

We are located in Pune and support our clients across the globe. Our client portfolio spans VC-backed startups and scale-ups including the likes of The Pant Project, 1 Hair Stop, sploot, Vakilsearch and many more. 

GrowthSRC aims to hire the best, train the best, service the best, and empower the best by providing top-notch resources and tools for success.

Company Culture is at Our Core

We aspire to design a workplace built for today, inspired by tomorrow. We know that companies with a strong culture and a higher purpose perform better in the long run. 

These are the core behaviours that our team lives by:

1. We are a team, not a family.
2. We are pro-growth.
3. We believe in radical candor.
4. We promote autonomy and accountability
5. We are problem solvers.
6. We breathe 4Cs that make up culture for us - clients, communication, curiosity & courage.

Benefits of Working With Us

• Professional growth: we believe in helping each member of our team grow personally and professionally, and we promote from within.
• Collaborative Work Culture: Smart teammates that push your professional capabilities to the next level and help you learn from the best.
• Mentorship: 1-on-1 mentorship from founders, along with team training and workshops. We help you find the right role for you within our agency to enhance your skillsets. 
• Small Team Environment: Experience a close-knit work culture that gives you the ability to stand out, take ownership of projects, and make a big impact
• Learning Enablement: Access to the world’s best courses on SEO,  Digital Marketing, YouTube and internal SOPs.

About us:
Equal parts creative agency, engineering firm, and consultancy, Grappus has a reputation of doing things differently. We work with brands big and small, far and wide, helping them understand, prototype and deploy a broad range of custom tech. We value design and we cringe at bad UX. Each project is a clean slate, we don’t have frameworks, or any pre-made formulas. We’re not here to just grow big, make money and win awards. We’re here to crack the process of building truly innovative products from scratch. Products that make people say ‘damn’.

People at Grappus usually experience a highly accelerated career growth well beyond the narrow constraints of their ‘job description’. Here, the growth ladder is tailored to you. It operates exactly as fast as you can manage to grow. We think it's a waste when smart people are unable to make an impact. Our aim is to unleash your potential by giving you massive challenges and the freedom to solve them.

We’re in a fluid world, where we don’t know what technologies we’ll use next, or the projects we’ll work on. We’re actively searching for ways to shine a light on our blind spots, whether it is in the products we want to build, the problems we like to solve, or the company culture we try to create. That’s what makes life at Grappus so exciting. Grappus is an ongoing experiment and you are a part of it. We'll be a different company a few years from now because you are going to change it for the better. We can’t wait to see where you take us.

About the role:
We are seeking a Sr. Frontend Developer who has a knack for coming up with creative solutions to unique problems, planning development cycles and writing technical documentation while leading a team of developers. You can get in where needed to write clean, reusable, and performant code, with creative sensibilities to push projects towards perfection. You should have good time management skills and be able to work both autonomously and collaboratively with a cross-discipline team of product managers, strategists, UX designers, art directors, and developers. Most importantly, you have an eye for detail and the ability to make beautiful designs come to life through code.

What we’d like to see:
● Ability to write elegant and readable code
● Excellent problem solving skill and love technical challenges
● Lead a team of developers and showcase managerial skills
● Comfortable working in a team-oriented and collaborative environment
● Strong understanding of Agile and Lean software development processes and practices
● Stays plugged into emerging technologies/ industry trends and applies them proactively
● Knowledge of software best practices, like test driven development and continuous integration

Must have:
● BE/ B.Tech in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience
● Proven working experience in frontend programming for a minimum of 3 years
● Good understanding of frameworks like Bootstrap, Backbone, ReactJS, Redux and libraries like jQuery, LESS and Ajax
● Knowledge of performance testing frameworks including Mocha and Jest
● Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software
● Strong understanding of server-side scripting and Javascript frameworks, including jQuery
● Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving skills and client handling skills
● Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse web technologies and techniques
● Experience with coaching and mentoring junior web developers
● Experience in working with a variety of external frameworks and libraries
● Proven experience integrating with, along with a deep understanding of, service-based Web APIs including REST and/or GraphQL
● Good knowledge of User Interface patterns and techniques to solve common UI problems

Nice to have:
● Familiarity and experience using a variety of architectural design patterns
● Personal projects or contributions to the open source community
● Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
● Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
● Strong organizational skills to juggle multiple tasks within the constraints of timelines
● Team player (those great personality types that people love to work with)
● Great communication skills

Why you’ll love it here:
(Besides working with our team with infinite charm)

● We have no fixed work timings or leave policy, you can take unlimited leaves and start your day whenever you want. (Just make sure others in your team don’t suffer)
● We don’t track these hours you put in or ask you to fill time sheets. We don’t believe in
micromanaging, if you’re struggling, ask for help. If someone else is, offer some support.
● We never mind if people make mistakes or screw up in any way, and offer full encouragement to help people learn fast by failing fast.
● We always encourage people to be completely candid, raise alarms, or log complaints
anonymously in our feedback tool, no matter how harsh.
● We are a ‘Work from Anywhere’ company, since passionate, driven people can work from
anywhere they want; their homes, or cafes, or mountains, or beaches, anywhere.
● We have a 15-day notice period. We want to build a place where people work willingly and passionately.

Responsibilities and Duties:

· Write well-designed, testable, efficient code by using best software development practices

· Website designing, building, or maintaining

· Expanding/enhancing the website once built.

· Responsive website design

Qualifications and Skills:

· 1+ Years of Work Experience.

· Proven experience as a WordPress Developer.

· Proficient in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

· Experience with responsive and adaptive design.

· Thorough functional knowledge and coding experience

· Should be computer savvy and have strong communication skills.

· Able to develop ideas and processes and clearly express them.

· Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

· Knowledge of E-commerce.

· Familiarity with at least one of the following programming languages: PHP, ASP.NET, JavaScript or Ruby on Rails.

· A solid understanding of how web applications work including security, session management, and best development practices.

Job Description:

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers.
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules.
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges.
• Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks (such as Laravel, Codeignitor, Yii, etc depending on your technology stack)
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP.
• Understanding of MVC design patterns.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, JQuery, HTML5 and CSS3
• Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance (Depending on the specific project)
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions.
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Gif.
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules.
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc}
• Hands on Experience with AWS and NoSQL Database, Integration of AWS Services. (Mandatory)

Development: HTML5, CSS3, JS, JQuery, PHP(Must), Python, Java, Git, Dev Tools, C//.

Development Framework: Laravel, Codeigniter, React JS, Vue JS, Bootstrap. 

Tools: Trello, Slack, ASANA, Visual Studio Code, PHPStorm, Github, Selenium

Technologies Frameworks: Bootstrap, Laravel, WordPress.