Technical Writer (with a Dev Mindset) - AI Company

Key responsibilities:

Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts for eCommerce applications and products.

Perform functional, regression, usability, and exploratory testing on web and mobile platforms.

Identify, document, and track defects using bug-tracking tools.

Work closely with developers and business analysts/product managers to understand requirements and ensure test coverage.

Verify fixes and validate updates before deployment.

Conduct compatibility testing across multiple browsers and devices.

Ensure compliance with eCommerce industry standards and best practices.

Provide clear and concise bug reports, including steps to reproduce and expected outcomes.

Assist in creating and maintaining test documentation.

Skill(s) required

Selenium

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Learn Git & Github

Other requirements

Required Skills & Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.

2+ years of experience in manual testing, preferably in an eCommerce domain.

Strong understanding of software testing methodologies and test cycles.

Experience in testing web and mobile applications.

Familiarity with bug tracking tools like Jira, Bugzilla, or Trello.

Knowledge of SQL queries to validate data.

Ability to perform API testing using tools like Postman.

Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with e-commerce platforms and AI based products.

Knowledge of automation testing basics (e.g., Selenium, Cypress).

Understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies.

Exposure to performance testing tools.

Why Join Us?

Opportunity to work on cutting-edge eCommerce projects.

Collaborative and innovative work culture.

Career growth and learning opportunities.

Competitive salary and benefits.

Role Overview 

We are seeking an enthusiastic Software Engineer (Full Stack) with 3- 5 years of experience to join our growing team in Noida. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in designing and developing innovative SaaS products, contributing across both backend and frontend stacks, and helping drive digital transformation in a traditionally paper-driven domain. 

This is a high-impact role where your work will directly influence the future of rare disease diagnostics in India and globally. 

Responsibilities 

• Contribute to all facets of software development and design 
• Break down complex problems into modular, scalable solutions 
• Write clean, efficient, well-commented code (Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS) 
• Develop robust and scalable web applications using Java Spring Boot and Hibernate 
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs and integrate third-party services 
• Work with MySQL databases and write optimized SQL queries 
• Collaborate in Agile teams—participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives 
• Perform bug fixes, troubleshoot technical issues, and ensure system stability 
• Design technical documentation and automated test suites 
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and tools relevant to the tech stack 
• Maintain a productive in-office work environment with essential infrastructure 

Requirements 

Experience 

• 3-5 years of hands-on software development 
• Experience working in Agile teams using tools like Azure DevOps or JIRA 

Technical Skills 

• Proficient in: Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, MySQL, RESTful APIs 
• Strong front-end development using JavaScript, HTML, CSS 
• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Design and common design patterns 
• Skilled in SQL and database interactions 
• Experience with token-based authentication and test-driven development 
• Familiarity with Git for version control 

Soft Skills 

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting abilities 
• Excellent communication and team collaboration skills 

• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Experience in working with SDLC. Experience in end to end SDLC documentations.
• Experience in Banking/Financial Application.
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
• Hands-on experience in Web Services
• Excellent programming, unit testing and debugging skills in Mobile Java (Android and Kotlin)
• Good designing skills based on object-oriented design patterns & frameworks
• Basic/core Java/Kotlin/OOPS knowledge and an understanding of Java technologies is mandatory
• Very good exposure in frameworks like Android Architecture, SDK, SDK Development
• Strong Experience in Mobile Application Development Life Cycle
• Experience in Design Patterns MVVM, MVP etc.
• Programming new Android Applications from specifications
• Experience in implementing communication with API servers via web-services using JSON and XML
• Exploring upcoming new features of Android Platform

VB.NET Developer (5+ Years Experience)

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled VB.NET developer with 5+ years of experience to join our development team. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in VB.NET and the .NET Framework, along with a proven track record of designing, developing, and deploying scalable and maintainable software solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and implement complex applications using VB.NET and the .NET Framework.
• Collaborate with designers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into functional and user-friendly applications.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code that adheres to best practices and coding standards.
• Develop and maintain web applications using ASP.NET (Web Forms or MVC).
• Build and interact with databases using ADO.NET.
• Create and implement reusable components and libraries.
• Troubleshoot and debug complex technical issues.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in VB.NET and the .NET Framework.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes and tools.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of experience as a VB.NET developer.
• In-depth knowledge of VB.NET syntax, data types, control flow, and object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts.
• Strong understanding of the .NET Framework, including the CLR, CLI, and BCL.
• Experience with ASP.NET (Web Forms or MVC) for building web applications.
• Proficiency in ADO.NET for database access.
• Experience with Windows Forms for desktop application development (a plus).
• Familiarity with web services (SOAP and REST) and their integration.
• Understanding of XML and its use in data exchange and configuration.
• Knowledge of SQL for interacting with relational databases.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with design patterns for writing maintainable code.
• Proficiency in version control systems like Git or SVN.
• Experience with unit testing frameworks like NUnit or MSTest.
• Understanding of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) is a plus.
• Knowledge of API development and integration.
• Experience with security best practices and vulnerability mitigation techniques.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Benefits:

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, along with the opportunity to work on challenging and rewarding projects.

If you are a talented and passionate VB.NET developer with a proven track record of success, we encourage you to apply!

In Brief
Urgent Hiring • Re-location Required
Company Founded 2018 • 1-5 employees
Internet and Technology Startup • Bootstrapped

About us
Based out of Egypt and with presence in the GCC, Quesst Technologies is an early Internet and Tech Startup committed to helping thousands of nationals, residents and travelers in the MENA region, saving them time and effort in seeking reliable and credible knowledge within their communities and localities.

Quesst, the company's flagship platform, is a hyper-local Q&A and knowledge sharing platform that offers the necessary infrastructure for users seeking information to meet, share, engage and interact with one another and with verified subject matter experts.

Who we're looking for
Ideally the successful candidate will have experience in the start-up world and is in a position for a new challenge to take this company to the next level. Someone who is passionate about delivering a scalable and highly performant state-of-the-art cloud-based platforms built with technologies utilizing the JavaScript ecosystem, AI/ML and the latest web technologies to help solve exciting real world problems.

We are looking for an agile and entrepreneurial leader with strong people leadership and technical capability who has a problem-solving and analytical aptitude, excellent communication and presentation skills, is familiar with statistics, has a business acumen, independent, positive can-do attitude, and passion for excellence to the workplace.

Your role and our tech stack
Reporting to the founder, you will be expected to develop, deploy and oversee the execution of the tech strategy, product road-map and operations to ensure alignment with our businesses goals as we grow and scale. You will play a key part in the organisation's success, taking the current MVP and developing it further to move the company through to early stage funding and into profit.

Quesst's is built using React.js [Frontend], Node.js [Backend], PostgreSQL [DB], Amazon EC2 [Application Hosting], Amazon S3 [Media Storage Service], and Amazon SES [Email Sending Service]. You will be responsible for implementing full-stack features and collaborate with other team members to plan each sprint. You’ll be working across the entire system architecture and be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining restful APIs, micro-services and databases.

Your key responsibilities

• Develop, improve and optimize the structure, quality, and extensibility of current software technologies, codebases and databases
• Prototype ideas to quickly access viability and iterate based on feedback from the team
• Build robust, web-based applications interacting with databases, file-systems and APIs
• Write custom code or integrate open source technologies as needed to find solutions to problems
• Design and build effective APIs; Create servers and databases for functionality
• Design client-side and server-side architecture; Design the data model ensuring scalability
• Accurately translate screen designs into functional front-end code; Develop features and with a mobile responsive design
• Write high-quality, extensible, testable and reusable code and libraries; Conduct code reviews and establishment of best practices
• Participate in planning activities; Estimate accurate stores for new features and design product features
• Help define processes and build tools as needed to scale the solution and the team
• Create and lead the product road-map; Proactively breakdown work, manage development sprints, identify risks and explore solutions
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency; Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software; Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving
• Steer the business on timescales, prioritization and costs on competing development requirements
• Drive rigorous, and weekly product releases and lead required integration efforts with partners and/or third-party software services
• Guide the development in design, architecture and platform choices with strong focus on quality, speed, stability and scalability
• Identify and establish best practices and frameworks keeping in mind parameters of performance, responsiveness, security, maintainability, extensibility, and reuse; Work collaboratively in a lean and agile environment; Write technical documentation
• Recommend and implement new technologies, improvement of existing tech and set-up and future-proofing our technology that can help the company optimize efficiency and productivity and lead edge thinking and knowledge of innovative technologies i.e. AI, ML, blockchain, etc..

Your qualifications

• Minimum of BSc in Computer Science/IT/Electronics/Software Engineering or a comparable degree program
• Proven experience of 2-5 years of full-stack development of web applications; 2+ years building front-end interfaces with React.js & Redux workflows and 2+ years building back-end and maintaining server applications on Node.js, PostgreSQL and designing APIs
• Expert in traditional web-dev stack (HTML5, CSS3, JS); Strong in core JavaScript (ES5, ES6, ESNext, TypeORM and Typescript) and JS object model
• Experience with Linux environments and using the shell and command line terminals (preferred)
• Professional coding experience in object-oriented and scripting languages; Extensive experience building client-side web applications using React
• Proficient with:
  • JavaScript Frameworks (ReactJS/NextJS/Redux) and Node.js Frameworks (Express.js)
  • Client-side MVC frameworks such as NodeJS, React JS, NextJS, Redux, and AngularJS; Knowledge of isomorphic React
  • Configuration of various servers to run web application servers, databases, etc.; Web server technologies like Nginx, NodeJS, Apache, etc.
  • Frontend CSS frameworks like Bootstrap, Material UI and preprocessors like SASS and SCSS/LESS
  • Writing and integrating middleware; Experience with Redux Saga and Thunk
  • Architecture, design, queries of Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL and other RDBMS)
  • Modern JS tooling (NPM, Webpack, Babel, ESLint and Prettier)
  • Developer tools, such as Visual Studio Code
  • Code versioning tools and Git version control systems (Github); Containerization systems (Docker)
  • Strong in data structures, XML technologies, JSON parsing
  • Caching frameworks and mechanisms, work-task queues, transactions and messaging queues (Redis, Memcached, RabbitMQ and others)
  • Building real-time applications using Web Sockets (Socket.io)
  • Web and mobile push notifications and cloud message APIs (GCM, APNS, OneSignal, etc.)
  • Setting up cron jobs and schedule task execution
  • Handling Services, RESTful, APIs, third party libraries and APIs (Google APIs, AWS, Zendesk, etc.)

• Experience with API gateway, distributed infrastructure architectures and applications tuning/profiling; Experience working with microservices
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments; Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment
• Experience with REST API and web service construction, integration and architecture and working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, Authentication and Security Technologies
• Familiarity with building secure systems (OWASP secure coding practices or similar)
• Architect and cloud-deploy applications on AWS and other cloud providers
• Deep understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Build and manage end-to-end and UI tests; Experience writing tests (unit, integration, functional, etc.), and using testing frameworks
• Build third-party integrations like Slack, Stripe, Google and supporting their workflow
• Provision DevOps tooling with continuous integration; Build modern Front-end build pipelines and tools
• Contribute to API documentation including API description languages like Swagger; Document and diagram functional flows and architectures
• Experience in building rich PWA applications; Experience in responsive design, cross browser compatibility and website performance
• Understanding of how browsers and DOM work; Understanding and experience with asynchronous processing, partial page refresh, DOM traversal and manipulation
• Expert level using Web Analytics tools (Google Analytics and others); Experience with open source software development
• Experience with localization and internationalization of applications (working with multi-site setups, multi-language, i18n, etc.)

Some desired extras and good to have skills

• Knowledge of cyber-security, malware analysis, threat detection and/or sandboxing technology
• Preferably has knowledge of working in big data (Spark, Kafka, Hadoop) and machine learning ecosystems
• Strong background in security and data analytics and on-premise data experience
• Experience and familiarity with:
  • Architecture, design, queries and aggregation of NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra and others)
  • Elasticsearch and ELK stack
  • Developing integrations for global OTAs
  • OpenAPI
• Knowledge of multiple backend languages and framework

We offer you

• A unique entrepreneurial opportunity to build something from the ground up and scale it up to a major regionally recognizable brand
• A great learning curve in a collaborative environment with no barriers for initiatives
• Leading compensation package including salary free of local taxes, accommodation allowance for local hire or shared accommodation for international hire, free medical care from company physician, free government healthcare membership, transport allowance, paid airfare to the country of origin, paid leave and end of service according to local labor law.

Your professional career growth opportunities
As you help us grow Quesst, we will help you grow and professionally develop. Joining us at this stage, you will have the opportunity to be part of the core team if you prove you have what it takes and will be given the opportunity to:

• Lead and develop a technical strategy for the company, which involves goal setting, discussing options, and analyzing risks with the management team, CEO and board members
• An opportunity to build and manage a business unit from scratch and scale it up to success at a regional level
• Attract and retain top tech talent, mentor and manage the team as it grows
• Develop and manage KPIs for the tech team and create a challenging work environment

Have we caught your attention?
Send us your application including your resume, salary expectations and earliest starting date.

We’re looking forward to your application!