Senior QA Engineer

Conversation Designer

The Opportunity 

Digit88 is establishing a new product development team for its US based partner and helping multiple clients achieve their AI and automation goals by designing effective, innovative, and delightful conversational experiences. 

Job Profile: 

Digit88 is looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, hands-on Conversational Designer to help kickstart the offshore conversational design team for our partner. Candidates must be responsible for designing the user experience of a virtual assistant. They ensure that the virtual assistant is conversationally engaging, impactful for the end-user, and matches the voice of the brand. Experience with a fast-paced India/US product start-up or a product engineering/design company who is capable of making user-centric design, having knowledge of NLP & customer journeys is desired. Applicants must have a passion for AI, be highly motivated and organized, able to work as part of a team, and also possess the ability to work collaboratively in a dynamic environment. 

Roles and Responsibilities: 

•  Design effective, innovative, and delightful conversational experiences using user-centric design methodologies 
• Work with major enterprise brands to understand their business goals, their customer personas and intents to define an automation roadmap 
• Research and analyze intents and the associated customer journeys. Evaluate when bots are appropriate and in what form 
• Create bot design documents, including bot personas, example dialogs, conversation flow diagrams, error handling patterns 
• Define the intent portfolio for natural language understanding and how it maps in to conversation designs ● Review customer transcripts to identify gaps in the conversation design; modify design patterns to bridge those gaps 
• Write copy suitable for automated conversations in the messaging medium 
• Interpret bot performance metrics to hypothesize where design changes can be made and tested to drive specific goals 
• Review and give feedback on designs from peers, including mentoring colleagues who may or may not be designers 
• Create and evangelize conversation design best practice standards, reusable design patterns and processes ● Should be comfortable in a client-facing role, advising customers and evangelizing non-design team members on conversation design best practices, processes, and reusable patterns. 
• Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication to internal executives, C-level clients, partners, and team members

Skills Requirements:

• To be successful in this role, you should possess:
• Bachelor’s Degree with experience in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent
• professional experience
• At least 1 year prior experience in bot strategy, conversation design, and AI optimization.
• We consider diverse backgrounds - prior UX Content Strategy, Information Architecture, or UX Writing
• experience
• Strong prioritization skills.
• Excellent mastery of verbal and written english language.
• Knowledge of Natural Language Understanding technologies and platforms such as Dialog Flow, Watson,
• LUIS, etc. and how it impacts conversation designs
• Knowledge of messaging channels such as web messaging, SMS, Whatsapp, etc. and what the advantages
• and disadvantages are of each
• Contact center and/or customer service experience a plus

Key Responsibilities

Lead Generation & Outreach

·      Contact and develop relationships with potential customers through email marketing, cold calling, and LinkedIn outreach.

·      Execute email campaigns targeting prospects to generate leads and create business opportunities.

·      Mine data and extract information of C-level executives from various online sources and tools.

Sales Process Management

·      Follow up on leads and respond to sales inquiries from existing and potential customers as per guidelines.

·      Assist senior staff in generating and following up on leads.

·      Convince clients, schedule appointments, and manage the sales pipeline.

·      Track sales efforts and monitor results to ensure alignment with targets.

Customer Relationship Management

·      Liaise between customers and the company to provide up-to-date status on service, pricing, and new product releases.

·      Collect customer feedback and conduct market research to inform business strategy and product development.

·      Maintain CRM systems to manage lead generation, track interactions, and store customer information.

Market & Competitor Analysis

·      Stay informed about the latest products, market trends, and competitors to provide insights for business strategy.

·      Increase business opportunities through various routes to market.

Required Skills & Qualifications

·      Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

·      Proficient in email marketing, cold calling, and LinkedIn outreach.

·      Experience in data mining and CRM systems.

·      Ability to prepare detailed reports and commercial proposals.

·      Strong analytical and organizational skills.

·      Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

·      Understanding of market research and customer feedback processes.

Performance Metrics

·      Number of new leads generated.

·      Conversion rate of leads to appointments and sales.

·      Quality and timeliness of proposals and reports.

·      Customer satisfaction and feedback.

·      Sales targets and revenue growth.

The Business Development Manager will be responsible for identifying and pursuing new business opportunities, building and maintaining strong relationships with clients, and driving revenue growth. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with a proven track record of success in business development and sales.

Key Responsibilities:

Identify, evaluate, and pursue new business opportunities to achieve revenue and growth targets.

Develop and implement strategic business development plans to expand the company's customer base and market presence.

Build and maintain strong, long-lasting client relationships through regular communication and by understanding their needs.

Conduct market research to identify new trends, opportunities, and competitive activities.

Collaborate with internal teams to develop customized proposals, presentations, and sales strategies.

Negotiate contracts and agreements with clients, ensuring mutually beneficial outcomes.

Track and report on business development activities, including pipeline status, revenue forecasts, and market feedback.

Represent the company at industry events, conferences, and trade shows to network and promote the company's offerings.

Stay up-to-date with industry trends and competitors to identify new business opportunities and potential partnerships.

Provide feedback to senior management on market trends, competition, and customer feedback to help shape the company's strategic direction.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field. MBA is a plus.

Proven experience as a Business Development Manager, Sales Manager, or similar role.

Strong understanding of the market, industry trends, and competitive landscape.

Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.

Ability to build and maintain relationships with clients and stakeholders.

Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically.

Proficiency in CRM software and Microsoft Office Suite.

Self-motivated, goal-oriented, and able to work independently as well as part of a team.

Role: Data Engineer  
Company: PayU

Location: Bangalore/ Mumbai

Experience : 2-5 yrs

About Company:

PayU is the payments and fintech business of Prosus, a global consumer internet group and one of the largest technology investors in the world. Operating and investing globally in markets with long-term growth potential, Prosus builds leading consumer internet companies that empower people and enrich communities.

The leading online payment service provider in 36 countries, PayU is dedicated to creating a fast, simple and efficient payment process for merchants and buyers. Focused on empowering people through financial services and creating a world without financial borders where everyone can prosper, PayU is one of the biggest investors in the fintech space globally, with investments totalling $700 million- to date. PayU also specializes in credit products and services for emerging markets across the globe. We are dedicated to removing risks to merchants, allowing consumers to use credit in ways that suit them and enabling a greater number of global citizens to access credit services.

Our local operations in Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and South East Asia enable us to combine the expertise of high growth companies with our own unique local knowledge and technology to ensure that our customers have access to the best financial services.

India is the biggest market for PayU globally and the company has already invested $400 million in this region in last 4 years. PayU in its next phase of growth is developing a full regional fintech ecosystem providing multiple digital financial services in one integrated experience. We are going to do this through 3 mechanisms: build, co-build/partner; select strategic investments. 

PayU supports over 350,000+ merchants and millions of consumers making payments online with over 250 payment methods and 1,800+ payment specialists. The markets in which PayU operates represent a potential consumer base of nearly 2.3 billion people and a huge growth potential for merchants. 

Job responsibilities:

• Design infrastructure for data, especially for but not limited to consumption in machine learning applications 
• Define database architecture needed to combine and link data, and ensure integrity across different sources 
• Ensure performance of data systems for machine learning to customer-facing web and mobile applications using cutting-edge open source frameworks, to highly available RESTful services, to back-end Java based systems 
• Work with large, fast, complex data sets to solve difficult, non-routine analysis problems, applying advanced data handling techniques if needed 
• Build data pipelines, includes implementing, testing, and maintaining infrastructural components related to the data engineering stack.
• Work closely with Data Engineers, ML Engineers and SREs to gather data engineering requirements to prototype, develop, validate and deploy data science and machine learning solutions

Requirements to be successful in this role: 

• Strong knowledge and experience in Python, Pandas, Data wrangling, ETL processes, statistics, data visualisation, Data Modelling and Informatica.
• Strong experience with scalable compute solutions such as in Kafka, Snowflake
• Strong experience with workflow management libraries and tools such as Airflow, AWS Step Functions etc. 
• Strong experience with data engineering practices (i.e. data ingestion pipelines and ETL) 
• A good understanding of machine learning methods, algorithms, pipelines, testing practices and frameworks 
• Preferred) MEng/MSc/PhD degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, or equivalent (preference: DS/ AI) 
• Experience with designing and implementing tools that support sharing of data, code, practices across organizations at scale 

Support at Exotel is different. The goal is not just to deliver help to our customers, but to deliver happiness. It's not the same questions over and over again, and often involves researching/understanding the business side of how companies use our platform to build their communication applications and help accordingly.

Providing time-sensitive help to meet the customer’s needs during each interaction is of utmost importance.

Exotel is one of Southeast Asia’s largest cloud telephony companies. Our aim is to change the way enterprises look at customer communication. We build the best in class communication products that power the companies of today and tomorrow. Our technology enables customer communication for our clients such as Uber, Ola, Go-Jek, Redbus, Flipkart, Quikr, Practo,Lazada, Redmart, to name a few.

We are a young company with humble beginnings in 2011 that grew  from a 3 member team to 150+ employees in 2018. Our technology has connected 85 million people, powered 1.2 billion customer calls, powered 3.2 billion voice API calls, 3.2 billion business SMS powered. Read our 2018 growth story https://2018.exotel.com/">here.

Customer Happiness is one of our key differentiators. In this role you will be the customer champion for Exotel, thrive to create great customer experience while responding to customer inquiries, resolving their queries and ensure all the agreed SLA’s are met consistently. In this role, you will be working with internal and external stakeholders with high level of ownership on your deliverables with customer first approach.

• You're empathetic to customers and can easily put yourself in their shoes. You listen and understand well. You’re smart and know that not everyone comes with the same skill sets and help people whether they are technically inclined or not. Your job is to make the customer feel empowered and happy after each interaction.
• You love solving problems and have the ability to provide solutions to technical problems that customers face. You never give up when you don't know the answer right away.
• You have dual qualities of time management, patience and ability to speak to customers with confidence and conviction.
• You write well. You know exactly what word or punctuation to use based on the context.
• As we are an API driven company, you either know how applications are built using APIs or have a keen interest to learn.

• You want to be an enabler for business success with an appetite for steep learning.
• You enjoy mentoring and coaching teams, take pride in teams success.
• You enjoy solving problems and thrive for excellence

• You’ll be our Product Champ in all areas. Providing solutions to different problems of clients by taking help of different internal tools, coordinating with Tech Support (this is one team with whom you’ll be working the most), Network operations, Customer Success, Product and Finance teams.
• You'll work one-on-one with customers, helping them to get the most out of Exotel. You might wing unplanned Skype calls and live screen-shares apart from answering phone calls and responding to emails.
• Ensure that all the related notes/ call comments are properly documented and suitable information is provided to clients.
• Maintain our https://support.exotel.in/support/home" target="_blank">knowledge base site. Write, edit and help create content whenever necessary.
• We work 24*7, considering we now are expanding geographically. We expect you to be comfortable working in rotational shifts (you’ll be working from home during nights and over weekends, though)

As a Technical Architect, you need to be

• Technology Expert
• Creative and self-driven
• Customer centric
• Visionary
• Comfortable operating in fast paced environment

You will closely work with Head of Product Engineering responsible for for the platform development, Chief Technology Officer driving the technology innovation, Software Development Leaders, Program Manager, SCRUM Masters, UX Designers

You will be responsible for

• Driving and defining the technical architecture of the Core SaaS platform
• Develop high-level technical specifications and design of the platform
• Define technical product roadmap to continuously enhance the platform.
• Communicate successfully all concepts and technical guidelines to development team
• Promotes and ensures use of appropriate techniques, methodologies and tools
• Bring in best of the class architectural practices in the platform

Your Qualifications

• 8 – 15 years of software product development experience, with majority of them is hands on experience developing in enterprise software product
• Experience in developing and hosting PaaS or SaaS based products/platform with hands on experience in multiple cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and so on
• Experience developing enterprise- grade software products that can perform, scale, and integrate into a broad enterprise ecosystem
• Can mentor train existing team members on aspects of architecture, design and explain, document and elaborate architecture and design changes
• Strong background in architectural principles, patterns and anti-patterns
• Must have contributed to technology tools evaluation and technical proof of concept applications
• Should have experience in multiple tech-stacks including Data Analytics tech-stacks as well.

• Discover & Scale New Offline Sales Channels to Fuel Growth.
• Monitor Daily / Weekly Business Conversion Funnels and Drive Improvements to Improve Funnel Shape and Deliver Monthly Target.
• Create Granular Bottom-Up Plans, Basis Experiments and Initiatives and Ensure Adherence.
• Hire, Train, Mentor, And Drive Sales Teams Across Geographies.
• Plan, Participate and Represent Company in Trade Shows and Events
• Review Teams and Improve Sales Effectiveness by Using Data-Backed Insights.
• Coordinate And Plan with Cross-Functional Operations, Central Teams to Ensure Smooth Transactions.

Eligibility

• Experience: - 6-9 Years of Operational Experience in Sales/Revenue Delivery Roles
• Strong Academic Pedigree
• Exposure To Fast-Paced Environment of Execution Preferred
• B2C Technology Startup
• Telecom / FMCG /NBFC/Insurance - New Initiatives Team
• Led Teams in Sales / Delivery

Skills Required

• High Level of Ownership, Execution Rigor and Span Control
• Comfortable With Ambiguity
• Ability To Engage and Influence People Cross Functionally

About us:

NetCracker Technology, a subsidiary of NEC Corporation, is the leading provider of BSS/OSS solutions to service providers around the world. From billing, customer care, and real-time charging and policy solutions, to resource and network management, service fulfillment & assurance, our comprehensive software and services capabilities enhance the customer experience through content-rich offerings and reduced costs.

NetCracker's innovative end-to-end BSS/OSS solutions enable service providers to operationalize next-generation connectivity, maximize the convergence of Network and IT, monetize content, and deliver a compelling customer experience.

Founded in 1993, NetCracker became a subsidiary of NEC Corporation in 2008 and acquired the Convergys Information Management division in 2012. We are CMML 5, Product based company. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Work as a member of development team towards the Product Suite
• Estimating efforts and duration on development
• Involved in solution implementation projects
• Interaction with Business Analysts, Quality Assurance and Customer Support teams
• Provide expertise and best practices on technical aspects of product development and implementation projects including performance
• Introduce new development technologies, instruments and techniques

Job Requirements:

• Experience in writing technical design and development of the application
• Good understanding and hands-on work experience in Core Java/J2EE & concepts such as OOPS, multithreading, Collections, Concurrency, Exception Handling, JDBC, File I/O, XML APIs etc
• Should have worked on Java 1.8
• Design skills –Design Patterns, hands on in restful services
• Working experience on spring core
• Hands on in writing complex SQL queries
• Knowledge of web-services (REST and SOAP);
• Familiarity with NOSQL [eg. Mongo DB] is preferred;
• Familiarity with message queues like Kafka.
• Know-how on containerization applications like Docker, Kubernetes is preferred.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tool – SVN.
• Hands-on experience in writing Unit tests using Junit.
• Working experience in Jenkins, Maven, SonarQube.
• Experience in tuning applications based on Performance tests/ Load tests/ Stress tests is preferred.
• Knowledge of development lifecycle, standards, approaches, utilities and environment: shells, IDEs.
• Familiarity with JIRA / JQL is an added advantage 

Experience:

• 5 to 11 years of core development / Product experience

Education:

• BE/Btech/MCA

• Manage sales operations in assigned district to achieve revenue goals.
• Supervise sales team members; the BSMs, on daily basis and provide guidance whenever needed.
• Identify skill gaps and conduct trainings to sales team.
• Work with team to implement new sales techniques to obtain profits.
• Assist in employee recruitment, promotion, retention and termination activities.
• Conduct employee performance evaluation and provide feedback for improvements.
• Contact potential customers and identify new business opportunities.
• Stay abreast with customer needs, market trends and competitors.
• Maintain clear and complete sales reports for management review.
• Build strong relationships with customers for business growth.
• Analyze sales performances and recommend improvements.
• Ensure that sales team follows company policies and procedures at all times.
• Develop promotional programs to increase sales and revenue.
• Plan and coordinate sales activities for assigned projects.