Senior Python Engineer

We’re in search of an experienced QA Team Leader to handle testing of the company’s product or system. As QA Team Leader you will be responsible for designing and implementing tests, debugging issues, performing root-cause analyses, defining corrective actions, and tracking quality assurance metrics. You will be responsible for our student test engineers to follow up and coach them. Dare to make a difference and have an impact from Day One!

Job Profile:

Role and responsibility

• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured testing documentation.
• Allocate work across the team to ensure business requirements are met.
• Design and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts for functional, regression, and performance testing.
• Establish QA metrics, goals, and objectives in alignment with organizational objectives.
• Manage the QA testing environment, including configuring test environments and maintaining test data integrity.
• Expert in the API testing.
• Proficient in the database testing
• Experienced with J Meter
• Participating in daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product development, engineering, and customer support, to identify quality issues and drive resolution.
• Conduct thorough testing of software applications, systems, and products to identify defects and ensure adherence to quality standards.
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices in software quality assurance and testing methodologies.

Skills and qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering.
• Min 6 years of experience in software testing
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies and tools
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to lead and motivate a team of testers
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines
• Experience with test management tools (e.g. JIRA, Quality Center)
• High effectiveness in managing cross-functional teams.
• Having experience in automation testing will be an added advantage like selenium, APM, Rest Assured/Karate Framework, Jenkin

Searce means ‘a fine sieve’ & indicates ‘to refine, to analyze, to improve’. It signifies our way of working: To improve to the finest degree of excellence, ‘solving for better every time. Searcians are passionate improvers & solvers who love to question the status quo.

The primary purpose of all of us, at Searce, is driving intelligent, impactful & futuristic business outcomes using new-age technology. This purpose is driven passionately by HAPPIER people who aim to become better, every day.

Searce is a modern tech consulting firm that empowers clients to futurify their businesses, leveraging Cloud, AI & Analytics.

1. We are a category-defining niche’ cloud-native technology consulting company, specializing in modernizing (improving, automating & transforming) the full scope of infra, app, process & work.
2. We partner with clients in their ‘beyond x’ journey to drive intelligent, impactful & futuristic business outcomes. 
3. We are the most preferred tech partner of choice when it comes to ‘solving for better for the new-age tech startups & digital enterprises, leading disruption in their industries.
4. Our Service Offerings: We offer Advanced Cloud, Data & App Modernization, Cloud Consulting, Management & Improvement (DevOps, SysOps & Cloud Managed Services), Applied AI & Analytics services. 
5. As one of the top 5 niches’ full-scope global partners for Google Cloud & a preferred partner for AWS, we are the most preferred ‘engineering-led tech company of choice when it comes to solving complex business problems.

1. Own product development - This includes setting up and managing weekly sprints to deliver on product goals
2. Work closely with product management to define project scope, priorities, and timelines
3. Highly technical, hands-on hacker and an effective people manager.
4. Roll up the sleeves and code alongside the team.
5. The primary interface for the engineering team to the business users and clients.
6. Expand existing, and implement industry-best software engineering practices.
7. You will hire, manage and mentor - Retain & lead engineering talent & geeks to expand a cohesive and powerful team
8. Strive for excellence in customer experience, technology, methodology, and execution
9. Enjoy providing frequent and constructive feedback.
10. Define and influence product roadmap and deployment strategy
11. Architect and implement new features that increase engagement
12. Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs. 
13. Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders. 
14. Review and optimize app usage by monitoring key metrics and rectifying the issues proactively. 
15. An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment and bring in optimal flow for rapidly changing design/ technology

Our technology stack is sane and the role requires strong demonstrated experience and understanding of the below technologies:

Qualification

1. Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. But there is no way to locate you otherwise. So we might look for at least a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering (Computer Science). 
2. Or else, you should be programming from 12. For us, the latter is better as it shows you have a programming mindset. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some manner. :) 
3.  3-6 years of relevant work experience. 
4. Proficient understanding of MongoDB, Express.js, React Js, Node.js 
5. React Hooks and Lifecycle methods: In-depth understanding is necessary
6. Redux: Should be able to create, update and manage
7. Basic understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS. 
8. Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript,TypeScript, JavaScript frameworks , including jQuery, MySQL & NoSQL. 
9. Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX.
10. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git / Bitbucket / SVN.
11. Experience working and building RESTful APIs. 

Roles & Responsibilities:

• As one of the earliest employees, there will be a lot on your plate. All the time!
• You'll build new product features from start to finish: through conception, research, maintenance, and polish. Think features to improve our collaborative student learning platform, such as new collaborative learning activities for teaching coding and other subjects.
• You'll build improvements to performance, reliability, and product polish — for example, improving the efficiency and performance of our replicated state systems.
• You'll build and improve processes and internal tools with simplicity and productivity in mind — such as, a tool to sync updates between zoho, slack etc.

This might be for you if...

• You have knowledge of ReactJS and any backend technology along with that
• You have been professionally coding for at least 3 years
• You have worked in a startup and relish the chaos and pressure
• You've built and maintained quality user interfaces that have reached a large audience, ideally while the product is experiencing rapid growth.
• You can readily learn most technologies as you go. To you, technologies are about tools and tradeoffs, not an ideology.
• You care about the business implications of anything you build. You're not just going after cool stuff — you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line.

• Lead a full product development lifecycle from ideation, design, development, to roll out and support
• Own the delivery of multiple features of the product end to end while hands-on in development as well
• Advocate best development practices such as continuous integration/continuous delivery, automation (testing and infrastructure)

1. 7+ Years’ of experience, managing teams of 5+ people
2. Must have excellent programming, debugging and scripting skills with a solid understanding of Object Oriented Design principles.
3. Proficiency in at least two of the following: Java, NodeJS, Go, JavaScript, Python programming stacks, and passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess
4. Knowledge of software practices like refactoring, clean code, domain driven design, Encapsulation etc
5. Hands on experience managing databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis.
6. Exposure to event driven systems and event streaming engines like Kafka
7. Good knowledge of DevOps tooling like docker, kubernetes, ansible/chef, AWS.