Software Engineer

Job Title : Senior Python Scripting Engineer (Testing)

Experience : 7 to 8 Years

Location : Bangalore

Employment Type : Full-Time

Job Overview :

• We are looking for a Senior Python Scripting Engineer with 4 to 5 Years of advanced Python scripting experience and 2 years of testing experience.
• The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing robust automation scripts, ensuring software quality, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance product reliability.

Key Responsibilities :

• Develop and maintain advanced Python scripts for automation and software development.
• Design, implement, and execute test cases, automation scripts, and testing frameworks to ensure software quality.
• Collaborate with developers and QA teams to identify and resolve software defects.
• Optimize existing scripts and test cases to improve efficiency and accuracy.
• Work on test automation, debugging, and continuous integration pipelines.
• Maintain clear documentation for scripts, test cases, and processes.

Required Skills & Qualifications :

• 7 to 8 Years of overall experience in software development/testing.
• 4 to 5 Years of strong hands-on experience in Python scripting (Advanced Level).
• 2 Years of experience in Software Testing (manual and automation).
• Experience with test automation frameworks like PyTest, Selenium, or Robot Framework.
• Proficiency in debugging, troubleshooting, and optimizing scripts.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, version control systems (Git), and Agile methodologies.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a dynamic environment.

Preferred Skills :

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Exposure to performance testing and security testing.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

Job Summary :

      As a Software Development Engineer, you will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of software components all the way to production. In this position you will partner with our globally distributed cross-functional teams, product managers and other internal stakeholders. This position requires understanding business & technical requirements, designing clean solutions, implementing them and managing these systems. A key aspect of the role is to understand the digital commerce businesses part of KBX and implement technology systems that favourably align with business initiatives and requirements. The position will be evaluated in terms of the quality of the technology development, ongoing management of the systems and impact on business metrics.

Responsibilities :

• Work closely with cross functional teams to and deliver quality technology solutions
• Operational rigor for a rapidly growing tech stack and live portals
• Regular communication with management on status and risks.
• Measure success metrics and influence evolution of the tech product
• Be resourceful and find creative solutions to complex technical challenges.

Basic Qualifications :

• Ability to understand business requirements and build technology solutions that factor in the business requirements completely
• Possess an extremely sound understanding of basic areas of Computer Science such as Algorithms, Data Structures, Object Oriented, Databases.
• Excellent coding skills 
• Great problem solving skills and propensity to learn and develop tech talent.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science and years of Software Development experience

Preferred Qualifications :

• Understanding on Web programming is must; full stack experience would be a plus.
• Understanding on AWS Cloud Stack (EC2, Lambda, Dynamo DB, Aurora) would be a plus
• Knowledge of serverless development
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

Job Description:  

As a L3 analyst, you will play a key role within the Application Management team, leading services for its customer(s). This service has responsibility for the smooth daily operational running of the Client platform both in the cloud and on-premises. The Client application is business critical and centrally manages data for trading, settlement, risk, client and regulatory reporting systems. As a L3 analyst, you will be responsible for supporting complex infrastructure and application issues raised by L1/L2 support teams, and business analysts. You would also be working on client requests for enhancements, fixes, maintaining custom code, and following the best practices such as Agile, DevOps, etc.

The role is a technical role requiring a good technical knowledge of SQL/PLSQ, Core Java along with good debugging skill while supporting client implementations. You should have basic understanding on Unix system and commands. The ability to troubleshoot issues, assist users and help write specifications is essential. This position also works with product management to improve the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuously building, deploying, and updating software and environments.

• Accountability and primary responsibility/duties:
• A typical day would look like as follows: -
  • 40% support issues.
  • 40% configuration/development work.
  • 20% continuous improvement, automation, CICD, so on.
• Activities would range across the lifecycle from discovery to post-implementation support.
• Understanding client’s requirement, replicate the problem and providing the solution
• Understanding and developing new requirements coming in from BAs (Business Analysts) and customers.
• Update the existing functionality based on client needs.
• Develop changes that cater to enhancing the product and/or fixing production issues
• Prepare product releases of software components. (Java/SQL-PLSQL)
• Contribute in all phases of the development cycle. (development/Deployment/Testing, peer review)
• Create technical document for all changes made.

Required Qualifications/Knowledge/Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong basics and working experience in following technologies: -
  • Core Java.
  • SQL / PLSQL coding.
  • Object Oriented Programming concepts and data structures.
• Working knowledge on Unix platform
• Working knowledge on XSLT and XML handling
• Basic understanding App & web server working knowledge (JBOSS, WebLogic and WebSphere) and debugging skills.
• Advantageous to have:
  • Working understanding on CICD, Dev-ops technologies.
  • Queuing technologies including Kafka, MQ, Solace.
  • Scripting including Python, Unix, java.
• Hands on knowledge of Dev ops processes and tools Good interpersonal and communication skills.
  
  

• Must be from good companies and have been working on high Scale of Traffic.
• Proficiency in engineering practices and writing high quality code, with expertise Go Langauge
• Experience building microservices.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
• Good knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS/Google Cloud/Azure Proficient with RDBMS

Programming Languages: Perl, Python, java. Perl programming with strong OOPs knowledge.

• UI: HTML, JS
• System: Linux must have – good knowledge and shell scripting experience.
• Prior experience in infrastructure automation, monitoring will definitely help.

Description:

The person in this role:

- Will be involved in developing new monitoring scripts, enhancement & defect fixes on existing monitors

- Have to be on-call to support any incoming production/P1 internal issues which need urgent attention (team members are on call for a week and we have a weekly rotation policy within the team)

Preferred skills:

Perl
- Shell scripting

- Unix

- Jenkins

• Working with the product team to develop new features focused on improving the user experience
• Improving existing features and working on streamlining client implementations through improved tools
• Improving our technical architecture and building out a continuous integration pipeline
• Modernizing our front-end in new frameworks
• Everything else - our team is small and you'll likely be involved in almost every tech-related thing going on
  
  

Requirements

• 1+ years of experience building consumer-facing web apps
• You are interested in the full-stack opportunity and love building a feature from start to finish
• Self-starter with a deep interest in tech - we want someone who will come in with opinions, and shape our engineering practices and decisions for the better
• An eye for design - you'll have an important role in making the product look great
• Believe in our mission and love the idea of working in education to help students succeed
  
  

Technologies you'll work with:

• NodeJS, http://sails.js/">Sails.JS
• http://react.js/">React.js, Redux, Redux-Saga
• Kubernetes, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis, RabbitMQ
• Whatever else you decide - we're constantly re-evaluating our stack and tools
• Having prior experience with the technologies is a plus, but not mandatory for skilled candidates.

Benefits

• Remote Option - You can work from any location of your choice
• Reimbursement of Home Office Setup
• Competitive Salary
• Friendly atmosphere
• Flexible paid vacation policy

As a Senior Software Engineer - I,you'll take on complex problems that span multiple components and teams. As SSE - I, you could expect to: 

• Independently own one or more multiple modules, which includes: requirement analysis, design, development, maintenance & support
• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules and that handles interaction between multiple components. 
• Rapidly iterate to add new functionalities and solves complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions
• Produce architecture with clean interfaces, that are efficient and scalable
• Participate and contribute to architectural discussions
• Perform design and code reviews
• Perform technical feasibility and trade off studies & guides others to perform these studies
• Solve production issues. Investigate and provide solutions to minimize the business impact due to outage
• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules you own.
• Actively mentor and develop junior developers in all software development practices
• Participate in the hiring process (referrals, interviews, attending recruiting events or writing blogs)
• Onboard and mentors new team members, helps shape the culture of the team
• Collaborate effectively across teams to solve problems, execute and deliver results

Minimum Requirements: 

• A minimum of 4 years of relevant software development experience