Senior Analyst

The client provides a unique platform that aims to revolutionize the way direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands interact with their consumers in the offline & online spaces and grow their sales & profitability. 

The Product Manager will be responsible for the complete product life cycle, from early-stage research and ideation, through implementation & iteration based on business process definition and its key metrics.

We're dedicated to the agile methodology and are believers in lean product development. We are looking for people who are eager to deliver across the entirety of the product development lifecycle and areas. We are keen that you bring experience that you can impart to the rest of us but also are motivated to improve in many other skills and be humble enough to take the initiative to unlearn & learn.

Key Requirements

- Experience as a Business Analyst or as a product manager, preferably from a product development, product-based, or Tech Platform based company.

- Understanding Business Processes, Output, and Input Metrics is essential.

- Experience working closely with design and development teams in an agile software development environment.

- Communication, networking, and stakeholder management skills.

- Creativity in problem-solving combined with an anything is possible attitude.

- Ability to expertly marry qualitative and quantitative inputs to form deep customer insight.

- Ability to think long-term strategically as well as get engaged in the day-to-day execution details.

- Technical knowledge and ability to learn complex, technical topics quickly and articulate & explain them simply.

- Understand the trade-offs of implementation and help dev teams to make the right call.

- Passion for technology trends, emerging architectures, and fundamentals of creating a scalable and user-friendly system.

What You'll Do

- Drive the technical vision and roadmap for your product area with Backlogs assembled to create a world-class technology platform for retail & e-commerce. ( Phygital)

- Process Definition and detailing of requirements, workflow, user interfaces, business logic, and key business metrics (Input and Output).

- Able to map Epics, User Stories from the Business Requirements and Process Flows.

- Design & solidify the software development processes as the development processes are getting defined at this time.

- Use data to derive insights from usage and feature adoption.

- Hire and grow the team, while working alongside them

Preferred Skillsets:

• Understanding of e-commerce & Retail domain

• Expertise in Microsoft applications – Excel, Word, PPT, etc.

• Experience in Agile development tools like Confluence, JIRA, Redmine, etc.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications:

• B.E/MBA from Tier 1 /2 Institutes

• 4+ years of overall experience Desired, Min – 2 Years.

Profile:

·      Head the product management for the 3rd party products including Smallcase, Mutual Funds, IPO, Insurance, Loan, Credit cards, Bank accounts, Gold, Bonds, etc.

·      Lead a team of 7-10 Product Managers

·      Responsible for revenue, market share, vol. of these products from 3 channels – online platforms, digital marketing, offline channels

·      Own process and product development for these products

·      Continuous competition tracking

·      Training the various channels on products

·      Coordinating with various teams to ensure timely completion of dependent activities

·      Responsible for timely responding and resolving client queries / complaints

·      Preparing volume/revenue/usage data reports

·      Work closely with; & manage expectations of; multiple stakeholders like Business, Marketing, Compliance, Risk, Design, Technology, Program, and External vendors

·      Single handedly take couple of product features from vision to launch stage

·      Preparing short-term and long-term roadmaps of the products/features

·      Define KPIs and set up benchmarks, to measure the performance of the product

·      The candidate should have an analytical mindset who should be able to use data at ease – in finding hidden patterns and for understanding user behavior

·      We are looking for someone who has deep empathy for the end customer

·      Our candidate is the one who is extremely passionate about making his product a market success – a growth hacking mentality is what we are looking for

·      The candidate should have hands-on experience in owning the complete product cycle – having taken multiple products from ideation to launch stage

·      Past experience in industries like Fin-tech, AI/ML, Health-tech, Food-tech, Content-tech, Edu-tech, Gaming-tech, Social-tech etc. is an add-on but not at all mandatory

Qualification:

·      Min. 3 years of product management experience in owning/growing 3rd party products

·      Awesome communication and relationship building skill

·      Able to solve complex problems in an structured manner

Reporting to: Product Head                                                                           Location: Mumbai

Responsibilities:

• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code
• Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements
• Responsible for the product development and maintenance
• Analyze and resolve performance bottlenecks

Requirements:

• A  self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team-player.
• 3+ Years of experience in Web Application Development
• Should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks

• Expert in Programming using Angular 8/10/11, Web API
• Should have knowledge in Relational and Non-Relational databases (NO SQL).
• Strong knowledge of SDLC methodologies – Agile/Scrum
• Very good development skills in front end technologies/javascript libraries like angular etc.
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming, Design Concepts & Unit Testing
• Good understanding of Web Security Concepts

Role and Responsibilities:

1. Designing and developing test automation scripts for a web application (Angular) using test automation guidelines.
2. Performance, Security, Penetration, Vulnerability testing.
3. Build tools and frameworks to aid continuous delivery, deployment, and debugging.
4. Supporting the development team and software engineers during the development and testing phase.
5. Prepare defect reports and report test progress.

Qualifications and Requirements:

1. Experience in Automation Testing with Cypress, JavaScript, Typescript, or similar end-to-end testing tools.
2. Experience with Regression, Smoke testing, API, and Backend testing.
3. Experience with non-functional testing, performance, vulnerability testing.
4. Excellent knowledge in testing skills (design test plan and test strategy, writing and executing test cases, opening bugs, verifying bugs, etc).
5. A team player, fast learner with good interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

What you need to have:

• 3 - 6 years of relevant experience as SEO specialist or similar role
• 3+ years of experience in planning and implementing a successful SEO strategy
• 4 years of experience in web analytics, marketing, and business development
• Expertise in A/B and other testing methods
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• In-depth knowledge of research principles and methods and experience in analysing data
• Excellent communication, collaboration and project management skills
• Ability to adapt quickly in fast-paced environments

Overview

Xcelpros is a Global company, headquartered in Chicago (US) with multiple locations in US and Bengaluru, India. Our focus is Tech Innovation, Product Development and Technology Consulting.

We are hiring for our Product Development team and have an immediate need for a Backend Developer / Fullstack MERN Developer. The position calls for someone with a mindset who can build great products, manage multiple projects and related tasks on deadline. We are looking for high-quality and passionate developers that want to be a part of a great product team.

You need to have at least 2 years of demonstrated experience  as a Backend Developer using MERN (NodeJS, MongoDB, PostgreSQL & Express) & GraphQL technologies. The candidate will work closely with our internal teams in the design, development, launch and enhancement of various products.

About XcelPros

XcelPros is a Global company, headquartered in Chicago (US) with multiple locations in US and Bengaluru, India. XcelPros is focused on Tech Innovation, Product Development and Technology Consulting.

XcelPros specializes in technology solutions for Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) areas. We believe technology is the enabler of exponential growth for us and our customers. We are strategists delivering innovative business and technology solutions.  We have been well funded and operational since 2011.

XcelPros and affiliated group of companies are proud to foster a high-performance culture, one that's defined by having the best people, with the skills and determination to deliver above and beyond. We look for insightful and astute professionals who are also forward-thinking, confident, self-motivated and globally minded. Our core team consists of professionals with a wide range of skills and backgrounds.  XcelPros is continuously looking for talented, highly motivated individuals who believe in excellence and are committed to providing superior service to our customers and stakeholders. 

Experience

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in the design and development of  Web and Mobile applications using NodeJS, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Apollo - GraphQL and React
• You are required to have experience with development in Microservices Architecture 
• Experience with NestJS framework is a major plus
• Hands on experience with GoLang is not mandatory but a major plus

Start Date - Immediate

Positions - 2 (Immediate Need)

Responsibilities

• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience building applications in NodeJS, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Apollo - GraphQL and React
• Strong and mandatory experience of 2 years of experience in building applications using the Microservices architecture in NodeJS
• Strong and mandatory skills in Automating Components, Perceptibility, Configuration Management, Debugging & Consistency while writing Microservices.
• Experience building applications using NestJS or similar frameworks is a major plus 
• Experience building applications and service integrations using Apollo /  GraphQL
• Adhere to best practices of engineering by writing high-quality code.
• Hands on experience in Elastic Search and related technologies
• Hands on experience with one or more testing frameworks such as  Jest
• You are required to write / conduct unit & integration testing to ensure code meets high-quality standards
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders, including Production Support, BAs, Architect, Project Managers, and Product Owners to deliver high quality solutions.
• Develop, build, configure and unit test solutions from low level designs
• Ensure that solutions meet requirements outlined in the design documentation
• Perform all work to agreed time, cost and quality constraints
• Ensure that developed solutions are peer reviewed and formally documented
• Design, develop, test and document detailed technical specifications for application components built using MERN (MongoDB, ExpressJS, ReactJS, NodeJS) stack and integrations
• Develop and maintain high traffic / high performance React and Node based e-commerce web applications and web services, including support for mobile
• Participate in support activities to help UI developers integrate with APIs / services
• Create and maintain scalable infrastructure leveraging modern AWS cloud platforms
• Knowledge of all development aspects within an Agile SDLC framework, including; estimation, design, development, unit test, code reviews, and documentation
• Develop solutions that satisfy business requirements as outlined in user stories, and within agreed upon timelines
• Ensure solutions are of high-quality with regards to following standards and best practices, as well as satisfying security and performance requirements
• Collaborate effectively with other Agile team members
• Work with the Production Support team in the research and resolution of production issues.
• Prior hands-on experience with architecture for Web and Mobile technologies, E-commerce, Payment Gateways, Data security and encryption is a major plus
• Experience with CICD, containers and container management platforms(Dockers, Docker Swarm/Kubernetes, etc.)
• Knowledge of GOLANG is a major plus
• Good understanding of the Twelve-factor App methodology is a major plus
• Experience defining new architectures and ability to drive project from an architecture standpoint is a major plus
• Experience with Security configuration is a major plus
• Experience in understanding platforms & key AWS services like Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Lambda, ECS, AWS Fargate, EKS, EC2, S3 etc. is a major plus
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues in cloud integrations
• Highest levels of code quality
• Needs to conduct weekly code reviews
• Ensure timely and quality release of the product in collaboration with other team members
• Must be a self-starter and able to build up presence in the team.
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Technical Expertise / Hands-On Skills:

• MERN (MongoDB, ExpressJS & Node JS)
• PostGreSQL
• Apollo GraphQL
• JEST
• RESTAPIs

Key Deliverables

• Develop very high sense of ownership, the zeal to build scalable applications
• Develop a deep understanding of product development and start-up ecosystem
• Work with a performance oriented team driven by ownership and open to experiments
• Build customer facing technology product for global customers
• Collaborate with development teams to help identify and develop reusable platforms/libraries.

Key Requirements

• Can do attitude
• Highly motivated to bring fresh thoughts to the table
• Highly creative and most importantly willing to exercise it
• Self-starter and self-learner focused on research and learning
• Ability to play a variety of roles and most importantly take accountability
• Ability to communicate openly and embrace various perspectives without judgment
• Believe in a ”No politics” attitude. Politics can be detrimental to yourself and the organization.