Test Automation Engineer

Role: HR Manager

Location: Mumbai (Bandra West)

About Qrata 

We match top talent with highly competitive career opportunities with leading startups in India and globally and address hiring challenges, recruitment brand marketing, with innovative and collaborative strategic consulting. 

About the company we're hiring for 

Our client is a technology company that focuses on transforming how the next billion urban Indians rent their homes. It is India's only fin-tech powered, end to end, digital home rental platform. They are backed by some of the leading real estate developers like Lodha and Godrej and top tier VCs. They have a total of 12 investors and some of the leading ones are Cred and Dream 11.

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

● People Management & Leadership: Lead the P&C team to continue developing People & Culture processes as outlined below. Continue to develop the existing team of People leaders through coaching, mentorship, and leadership. Recruit and hire new P&C staff as needed. 

● Employee Lifecycle Management: Oversee the end-to-end employee lifecycle from onboarding and development, through to transitions and exits, creating a positive experience for all employees and driving engagement. This will include the development of a data-driven framework for continuous improvement in all aspects of the employee experience. 

● Talent Acquisition and Recruitment: Partner with talent acquisition team on strategies including job description creation, vacancy advertising, candidate screening, interviewing, and hiring processes - ensuring the adoption of best practices in inclusive hiring. 

● Compensation and Benefits: Develop and implement a competitive compensation philosophy and benefits strategy that motivates employees, supports retention, and attracts new talent. 

● Talent Management and Succession Planning: Implement comprehensive talent management strategies that ensure the right people are in the right roles, manage performance, provide career development opportunities, develop skills matrices, and oversee promotions and transitions. Develop and execute succession-planning strategies that ensure business continuity and support our future growth. 

● Learning and Development: Develop and implement comprehensive learning and development programs, focusing on the skills and knowledge that employees need to excel in their roles. Develop a strategic L&D program to support Parachute’s leaders to help the company level up and scale. 

● Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): Champion DEI by fostering a work environment that values diverse perspectives, promotes equal opportunities, and is inclusive of all employees. Develop policies and procedures that reflect the company’s DEI-B Values. 

● Employee Relations: Create and support a program that strengthens relationships between employees and the organization, resolving workplace conflicts, handling disciplinary procedures, and promoting employee well-being. Use metrics to address systemic issues, define root problems of employee-relation issues, and create programs to systematically address them. Support existing P&C team currently responsible for this function. 

● Legal Compliance: Ensure all HR policies and practices comply with local, state, and federal labor laws and regulations. 

● Organizational Development, Design, and Change Management: Drive organizational development and design efforts, working in collaboration with senior leaders across the organization to develop key HR staffing plans for new and existing departments. 

● HR Metrics, Analytics, and Strategic Investment: Implement a comprehensive HR dashboard that tracks key metrics across all HR functions. Utilize data analytics to inform strategic decision-making and guide investment in new full-time employees (FTEs), thereby maximizing profitability and optimizing capital deployment. 

What will set this person apart: 

● Proven business leader with 3+ years of leadership or management experience, in a leadership role within Human Resources. 

● Experience working in a high-growth tech startup or similar fast-paced industry is strongly preferred. 

● Demonstrated expertise in various aspects of HR management, including but not limited to talent management, learning & development, compensation strategy, and legal compliance. 

● Experience managing the end-to-end employee lifecycle and succession planning. 

● Proven track record of strategic thinking and decision-making ability, with the capacity to manage a critical function within the company. 

● Experience leading a team of HR professionals and working closely with senior leaders andexecutives in an organization. 

● Strong understanding of HR metrics and data-driven decision-making. 

● Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills. 

The role will be in person from Monday to Friday. 

Need to generate sales and building good customer relationships with effective communication.

Regular customer feedback and reviews

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

 Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

 Ability to work independently, learn quickly and be proactive

 3-5 years overall and at least 1-2 years of hands-on experience in designing and managing DevOps Cloud infrastructure

 Experience must include a combination of:

o Experience working with configuration management tools – Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack (expertise in at least one tool is a must)

o Ability to write and maintain code in at least one scripting language (Python preferred)

o Practical knowledge of shell scripting

o Cloud knowledge – AWS, VMware vSphere o Good understanding and familiarity with Linux

o Networking knowledge – Firewalls, VPNs, Load Balancers

o Web/Application servers, Nginx, JVM environments

o Virtualization and containers - Xen, KVM, Qemu, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

o Familiarity with logging systems - Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana

o Git, Jenkins, Jira

OREN is a rapidly growing technology business in Sustainability Analytics and Reporting space. Our ambition is to help companies include sustainability into their core business strategies and culture.

We are looking for Fullstack Engineers (MERN) to help us in the next stage of our journey with experience in developing real-time server applications based on Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB databases. As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks, and third-party libraries. You are expected to work with the best selection of tools, libraries, and cloud platforms to deliver a high-performance, scalable, flexible, reliable, and seamlessly integrated back-end solution to be used with a variety of mobile and web-browser-based clients.

Responsibilities :

-- Design and write lots of bug-free, efficient, scalable, and reusable code

-- Design & develop full-stack modules and components and promote coding best practices

-- Develop APIs and scripts using backend programming languages like Node.js

-- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications

-- Ability to work independently with minimum supervision

-- You will have ownership of developing and maintaining various backend services that support features in our application and website

-- Integrating solutions to enterprise software and legacy software

-- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables

-- Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications

-- Ensuring responsiveness of applications

Requirements:

- 4+ years professional software engineering experience

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field (or foreign equivalent)

- Proven experience in high-level programming languages like Node.js and Express.js with state management tools like Redux

- Good understanding of React, Next.JS, Bootstrap, and Material UI

- Thorough understanding of modeling and scaling databases like Firestore, and SQL

- Expertise in developing micro-services based REST APIs and exposure to API Gateway (GraphQL a plus)

- Should be well-versed with collaboration tools like Git and Swagger

- Significant experience in developing high performance, distributed, and scalable applications with container deployment (Docker and Kubernetes)

- Comfortable working within GCP, AWS, Azure, or equivalent ecosystem

-Bonus point: Experience working with ML and recommendation systems

- Knowledge on open-source technologies such as NoSQL, MongoDB, Data Formats (XML / JSON), JavaScript Frameworks ReactJS, JS, JQuery, CSS, HTML5, in memory databases, Build tools like webpack.

- Preference will be given to the Immediate joiner

- Should be a team player, have a positive outlook towards challenges, and contribute to the growth of the team and company

Interview process:
1st Round - Techincal Assessment: a) Online Quiz b) Take Home Assignment
2nd Round - Joint video call discussion with Co-Founder and CTO

Oren is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, domestic partner status, national origin, genetics, disability, military and veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

• Deep experience on Performance Engineering with understanding of Java/J2EE technologies.
• Experienced in defining and realizing end-to-end Technical Architecture for large scale real- time enterprise systems. Ability to identify and define non-functional requirements and design systems to meet the same.
• Ability to review existing Architectures and identify Risks, Trade-offs, and share recommendations for addressing the identified issues.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of cloud architecture considerations when scaling and tuning application deployments. Must have hands on experience working on any of the Cloud deployments on AWS or Azure.
• Good experience on leveraging APM tools to provide deep dive analysis on performance problems. Deep understanding of the dashboards which can be built for CIO level interactions. Must have relevant experience on APM tools like Dynatrace or AppDynamics.
• Experience in performance optimization of J2EE systems on any of different types of application servers - WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss etc. Deep expertise in any one of the application servers is a must.
• Experience in creating and reviewing technical documents like Architecture blueprint, Design specifications, Deployment architecture.
• Experience on working on Performance Testing Projects. Fair understanding of Performance Testing tools - Apache JMeter /Gatling/ HP Load Runner for Load testing. Must be in a position to review Performance Testing programs and steer directions towards right Workload Model, appropriate Test and Monitoring Strategy, build performance models and derive at right Capacity Planning.
• Experience in Big Data Analytics like - Apache Kafka, Apache Storm, Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark.
• Good skills in RDBMS like: Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, Cassandra, and Mongo DB
• Exposure to Agile methodologies & Continuous Integration Tools
• Entrepreneur / Intrapreneur (someone who has built technology teams ground-up, built new solutions from scratch)
• Very sound understanding of technology and have a consultative approach.
• Sound understanding of complex enterprise IT environment and issues faced by CIOs in the digital era.
• Excellent Pre-sales experience and have played a key role in winning business along with the sales team.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, liaison and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in a multi-cultural environment
• Good negotiation skills
• Go getter and results oriented
• High energy level with ability to work well under pressure
• Good relationship building skills. Someone who enjoys CIOs trust and has an ability to develop relationships at all levels (technology teams) of the customer organization.