VP-Sales

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the manual testing efforts of the QA team in an Agile development environment.
• Create and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts to ensure high-quality software delivery.
• Collaborate with development teams, project managers, and other stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and execute test cases.
• Work closely with the development team to ensure timely resolution of issues.
• Develop and maintain test documentation, including test cases, plans, and reports.
• Provide timely and accurate reports on test progress, defect status, and quality metrics to higher authorities.
• Perform Functional, Non-Functional, GUI testing, Smoke, Sanity testing, Performance testing, Pen Testing, Monkey testing, Retesting & Regression testing.
• Identify areas for process improvement and implement best practices to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the QA process.
• To prepare daily Sprint reports.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and best practices in software testing and QA methodologies.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in software testing and QA, with a focus on manual testing
• Minimum of 3 years of experience as a team lead managing at least 5 team members in an Agile development environment
• Strong understanding of Agile methodology.
• Experience with testing web-based applications, mobile applications, and APIs
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
• Strong attention to detail and ability to prioritize tasks effectively
• Experience with test management tools, such as JIRA, AIO, Trello, etc.
• ISTQB certification is a plus.

• Design, plan and control the implementation of business solutions requests/demands.
• Execution of best practices, design, and codification, guiding the rest of the team in accordance with it.
• Gather the requirements and specifications to understand the client requirements in a detailed manner and translate the same into system requirements
• Drive complex technical projects from planning through execution
• Perform code review and manage technical debt
• Handling release deployments and production issues
• Coordinate stress tests, stability evaluations, and support for the concurrent processing of specific solutions
• Participate in project estimation, provide inputs for solution delivery, conduct technical risk planning, perform code reviews and unit test plan reviews

• Degree in Informatics Engineering, Computer Science, or in similar areas
• Minimum of 5+ years’ work experience in the similar roles
• Expert knowledge in developing cloud-based applications with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Rest, SpringJPA, and Spring Cloud
• Strong understanding of Azure Data Services
• Strong working knowledge of SQL Server, SQL Azure Database, No SQL, Data Modeling, Azure AD, ADFS, Identity & Access Management.
• Hands-on experience in ThingWorx platform (Application development, Mashups creation, Installation of ThingWorx and ThingWorx components)
• Strong knowledge of IoT Platform
• Development experience in Microservices Architectures best practices and, Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience designing /maintaining/tuning high-performance code to ensure optimal performance
• Strong knowledge of web security practice
• Experience working in Agile Development
• Knowledge about Google CloudPlatform and Kubernetes
• Good understanding of Git, source control procedures, and feature branching
• Fluent in English - written and spoken (mandatory)

• Expertise in designing and implementing enterprise scale database (OLTP) and Data warehouse solutions.
• Hands on experience in implementing Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Date warehouse (Azure Synapse Analytics) and big data processing using Azure Databricks and Azure HD Insight.
• Expert in writing T-SQL programming for complex stored procedures, functions, views and query optimization.
• Should be aware of Database development for both on-premise and SAAS Applications using SQL Server and PostgreSQL.
• Experience in ETL and ELT implementations using Azure Data Factory V2 and SSIS.
• Experience and expertise in building machine learning models using Logistic and linear regression, Decision tree  and Random forest Algorithms.
• PolyBase queries for exporting and importing data into Azure Data Lake.
• Building data models both tabular and multidimensional using SQL Server data tools.
• Writing data preparation, cleaning and processing steps using Python, SCALA, and R.
• Programming experience using python libraries NumPy, Pandas and Matplotlib.
• Implementing NOSQL databases and writing queries using cypher.
• Designing end user visualizations using Power BI, QlikView and Tableau.
• Experience working with all versions of SQL Server 2005/2008/2008R2/2012/2014/2016/2017/2019
• Experience using the expression languages MDX and DAX.
• Experience in migrating on-premise SQL server database to Microsoft Azure.
• Hands on experience in using Azure blob storage, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
• Performance tuning complex SQL queries, hands on experience using SQL Extended events.
• Data modeling using Power BI for Adhoc reporting.
• Raw data load automation using T-SQL and SSIS
• Expert in migrating existing on-premise database to SQL Azure.
• Experience in using U-SQL for Azure Data Lake Analytics.
• Hands on experience in generating SSRS reports using MDX.
• Experience in designing predictive models using Python and SQL Server.
• Developing machine learning models using Azure Databricks and SQL Server

Who we are

ixigo is an AI-based travel app that helps millions of users plan and book their trips every day. Launched in 2007, ixigo is proud to have built numerous industry-first AI-innovations over the last decade. With pre-emptive help from ixigo at every touch-point of their journey, 150 million Indians are now making smarter travel decisions every year. ixigo uses Artificial Intelligence for deal discovery, personalized recommendations, dynamic marketing, airfare predictions, train delay information, PNR confirmation status, infrastructure cost optimization, business intelligence and providing fully-automated customer service over chat and voice. This makes ixigo a lean, tech-intensive and capital-efficient travel business, serving millions of travelers with a team size of under 200. Founded in 2007 by Aloke Bajpai & Rajnish Kumar, ixigo’s investors include Sequoia Capital India, Fosun RZ Capital, SAIF Partners, MakeMyTrip & Micromax.

Role & Responsibility

As a Backend Developer, You will be involved in all aspects of development playing a critical role in the design, planning, development, and deployment and help develop best practices for future development. You will be working closely with Tech, Design and Quality team to build and launch the product.

• Code, develop, design and architect features related to the existing application. We expect you to own modules end to end and take pride in the work products you ship
• Design, implement and maintain highly scalable, multi-tier, distributed server software applications
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support
• Working directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test and release products
• Take responsibility for performance and stability for all server functions
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Skills & Qualifications:

• At least an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, preferably from IITs/Top RECs
• 2-5 years of experience at cutting edge organizations or startups
• Extensive experience in a Java server-side software design and development
• Proficiency in the implementation of algorithms and the use of advanced data structures to solve problems in computing.
• Experience with e-business/e-commerce applications and business environment is a must
• Any experience with internet companies or the travel industry will be a plus

Must have

• Good understanding of Java/J2EE and design patterns
• Strong knowledge of data structures and designing for performance, scalability and availability Knowledge in MongoDB and Web services
• Extensive use of Instruments and Shark to detect memory leaks and for performance optimization
• Good grasp of algorithms, memory management, and multithreaded programming
• Good to have - Python, NodeJS, Mysql, Redis, ElasticSearchGreat people skills!
• Able to fit in well within an informal startup environment and to provide hands-on management
• The high energy level and untiring commitment to drive oneself & the team towards goals

Compensation: Commensurate to skills & experience; comparable to the best in the industry.

Culture: ixigo is proud to have built an entrepreneurial culture that has become a folk-lore in the startup ecosystem. One in every four ixigems has gone on to build successful startups and companies. Our cultural values of integrity, empathy, ingenuity, awesomeness, and resilience have stood the tests of time and we’ve built a fun, flexible and creative work environment that is driven by people with a high degree of ownership. You will get to work with some of the smartest folks in the Indian startup ecosystem, and solve some of the toughest problems for the next billion users by using bleeding-edge technologies. Oh, and we have an awesome “play” area, great chai/coffee, free lunches (yes, they exist!) and a workspace you will fall in love with.