Senior QA Engineer

Job Description :

This position is responsible for leading teams to deliver project(s) that span across one or more business units. Manage resources, schedules, financials and adhere to stage gate quality and SDLC control guidelines throughout the full systems development life cycle. This also includes management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery. Contribute to process improvement initiatives as it relates to improving project delivery.

What You'll Do :

- Strong experience in successfully leading projects and programs to on time, on-schedule and within budget close

- Experience leading, motivating and managing various project and program team sizes, including internal and external resources, while holding team accountable for performance

- Strong experience in SDLC Methodologies, Agile, SCRUM, SDLC / Waterfall

- Strong experience on documentation.

- Define and document project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders

- Develop full-scale project plans and associated communication documents

- Effectively communicate project expectations to project team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion

- Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals

- Addressing issues, flag risks and jointly determine mitigation approaches.

- Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.

- Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path

- Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools

- Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations

- Analyze, plan and develop requirements and standards in reference to scheduled projects

- identifying and developing new opportunities with clients.

- Obtaining customer acceptance of project deliverables.

- Managing customer satisfaction within the project transition period.

What You'll Need

- Bachelors or Masters Degree (preferred) in Business / Computer Science / Engineering / MBA

- Excellent leadership, communication (written, verbal and presentation) and interpersonal skills

- Good listening skills.

- Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands

- Proficiency in MS Excel / Google Sheets, Google Slides / MS PowerPoint

- Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods

- Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others

- Managerial experience applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills

- Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles

Good to have :

- PMP Certification / CSM Certification

- A background in hands-on software development

Business Development Associate

Location : Gurgaon

Working : Work from office (WFO )

Industry : Ed Tech

Functional Area : INSIDE SALES

Shift: Day Shift / Night Shift ( optional )

Roles & Responsibilities :

The sales Representative at Planetspark will be responsible for assisting and guiding the right offering/course to the consumers and getting them to purchase the right learning course.

Responsibilities:

● Understanding the offerings for the students and guiding them throughout the process to choose the right option for them

● Initiating phone conversations with parents who complete the demo classes for their kids.

● Intensely following up with the prospects and closing the sales within the sales cycle.

● Diligently communicating and priming the lead through channels like email, and calls.

● Ensuring accurate and proper record-keeping of call information in electronic and digital format.

● Achieving the monthly targets while completing all the input metrics targets,

•  Very strong hands on experience of web and mobile technologies: - HTML JavaScript,
• HTML5/CSS3,
• 5 + years of UI Development Experience using JavaScript Frameworks
• 3+ years of Angular Development Experience
•  Has implemented coding patterns and built UI framework
•  Deep knowledge of AngularJS practices and commonly used modules based on extensive
• work experience
•  Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching
• layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
•  Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and
• modules of core AngularJS
• Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments
•  Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
•  Cross browsers support/experience and knowledge of DOM manipulation on different
• browsers
•  Performance enhancements on web page load and execution
• Use responsive web design to create applications that automatically conform to multiple
• screen sizes/devices.
• Reach at 91 084 76 999

Project Manager

Who we are?

Searce is  a niche’ Cloud Consulting business with futuristic tech DNA. We do new-age tech to realise the “Next” in the “Now” for our Clients. We specialise in Cloud Data Engineering, AI/Machine Learning and Advanced Cloud infra tech such as Anthos and Kubernetes. We are one of the top & the fastest growing partners for Google Cloud and AWS globally with over 2,500 clients successfully moved to cloud.

What we believe?

• Best practices are overrated

• Implementing best practices can only make one n .

• Honesty and Transparency

• We believe in naked truth. We do what we tell and tell what we do.

• Client Partnership

• Client - Vendor relationship: No. We partner with clients instead. 
• And our sales team comprises 100% of our clients.

How we work?

It’s all about being Happier first. And rest follows. Searce work culture is defined by HAPPIER.

• Humble: Happy people don’t carry ego around. We listen to understand; not to respond.

• Adaptable: We are comfortable with uncertainty. And we accept changes well. As that’s what life's about.

• Positive: We are super positive about work & life in general. We love to forget and forgive. We don’t hold grudges. We don’t have time or adequate space for it.

• Passionate: We are as passionate about the great street-food vendor across the street as about Tesla’s new model and so on. Passion is what drives us to work and makes us deliver the quality we deliver.

• Innovative: Innovate or Die. We love to challenge the status quo.

• Experimental: We encourage curiosity & making mistakes.

• Responsible: Driven. Self motivated. Self governing teams. We own it.

Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:

1. Love for cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
2. Passion for sales: When was the last time you went at a remote gas station while on vacation, and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies.
3. Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
4. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on cloud?’

Do you cloud?

1. Expertise driving infrastructure engineering projects & transform initiatives from deep-tech startups to 42,000U (1,000 42U racks) loaded enterprises.
2. Have you tandem-jumped at least 50 times taking along a trusted business having on-prem workloads to safe-land onto a public cloud with a soft touchdown?
1. Do you understand the innards of Apache web servers on Linux and Sharepoint Server Farms alike?
2. Do you speak CloudFormation? Terraform? Do you speak JSON? 
3. Do you love automating everything possible leveraging Python / Powershell / Bash?
3. Are you a voracious reader fascinated by the latest & greatest innovations on public cloud?

Introduction

We welcome *really unconventional* creative thinkers who can work in an agile, flexible environment. We are a flat organization with unlimited growth opportunities, and small team sizes – wherein flexibility is a must, mistakes are encouraged, creativity is rewarded, and excitement is required.

1. This is an entrepreneurial project management position that challenges the client status quo by helping them re-imagine the art of what is possible using consulting mindset and business strategy skills.
2. This position requires fanatic iterative improvement ability - ability to coordinate with Sales - Presales - Delivery - MS and get project delivery done. 
3. This position is for hard-core-geek-turned--engineer-turned-Tech enthusiast -turned-Project Manager.

What we are NOT looking for: Buzzword Bozos (BB) or Certification Chasers (CC).

What we seek is an AA (Awesome Attitude to Learn, Improve & Coach).

Not just a BB or CC? Quick self-discovery test:

When was the last time you thought about how GAN (Generative Adversarial Networks) can help auto-create new building designs for an architect or new jewellery designs for a designer OR passionately convinced a friend that Google Video Intelligence API or AWS Rekognition can now auto-video-screen an applicant with 90+% confidence level almost automating 75+% efforts of a recruiter, OR leverage Google Vision API to do e-KYC? If this is what you constantly get blamed for & your friends have made a strip for you on xkcd, you are probably the right-fit for what we are looking for.

Your bucket of Undertaking :

This position will be responsible to consult with the clients and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from one public cloud to the other.

1. Be the first one to experiment on new age cloud offerings, help define the best practise as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
2. Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve
3. Use your experience in Google cloud platform, AWS  or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
4. Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitates the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud based technology and methods.
5. Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
6. Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code and other artifacts
7. Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in google cloud platform

Education, Experience, etc.

1. Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. However there is no way to locate you otherwise. So unfortunately we might have to look for a Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering from a reputed institute or you should be programming from 12. And the latter is better. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some manner. Not just degree, but we are not too thrilled by tech certifications too ... :)

1. To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives those fancy degrees!
2. 3 - 5 years of experience with at least 1 - 2 years of hands-on experience in delivering Cloud Consulting(AWS/GCP/Azure) projects in a global enterprise environment.
3. Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
4. Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform and lean development methodologies.

A quick self-discovery test below:

1. How you treat yourself & others?
1. You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
2. You have ‘one’ life - no work life or personal life. You are the same at both places.
3. You are generally happy and passionate about life. When shit does happen you know how to tell your heart ‘All is well’.
4. You are compassionate to yourself, you love your work, your company, your country, and are generally a person people like to be around.
2. How you work & live?
1. You make difficult & complex decisions in an environment filled with lack of well defined constraints and uncertainty.
2. You are able to admit to your team that you were shit scared while making those decisions.
3. You are able to juggle conflicting priorities and remain composed as the client keeps on changing requirements. :)
4. You are genuinely passionate about developing great software, learning a lot, helping others learn and  having loads of fun while doing so.
3. What you love?
1. You love things. You are passionate. You care for your self, family, country and Big Bang Theory (and this is a must!).
2. You love to organize, index, and improve things around you - Yes you are Sheldon’ish’ at times and ‘Leonard’ish’ the other times.
3. You are passionate about improving processes and you truly feel satisfied by making things better.
4. You love Google. And AWS. And Terraform. And CI - CD pipelines. And linux.