Venus Factor Program

Job description:

Research Intern – Entrepreneurship (3-Month Internship)

Location: On-site, Santosh Nagar, Hyderabad

Duration: 3 months

Type: Internship (Full-time, On-site)

About Us

VRT Management Group is a dynamic organization with a strong focus on innovation, leadership, and entrepreneurial growth. Our CEO is currently pursuing a PhD in Entrepreneurship, and we are seeking a motivated intern to support research activities, academic writing, and knowledge gathering in this area. This is an excellent opportunity for students or fresh graduates to gain hands-on exposure to academic research and entrepreneurship.

Role Overview

As a Research Intern, you will assist in gathering, analyzing, and synthesizing academic and industry literature related to entrepreneurship. You will help structure research findings into summaries and reports that contribute to doctoral-level academic work.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct literature reviews on entrepreneurship and related topics using academic databases and journals.
• Collect, analyze, and summarize research articles, case studies, and reports.
• Assist in structuring research findings into organized notes and summaries.
• Provide support in drafting academic writing sections, presentations, and reports.
• Maintain proper referencing and citation in line with academic standards (APA/MLA).
• Provide timely updates and ensure all assigned tasks are completed on schedule.
• Track tasks, instructions, and deadlines provided by the CEO.
• Be persistent in following up CEO to ensure research progress is on track.
• Stay updated on emerging trends and developments in entrepreneurship research.

Qualifications

• Pursuing or recently completed a Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in Business, Management.
• MBA or BBA graduates are preferred.
• Candidates should have prior internship experience.
• Strong interest in academic research, entrepreneurship, and innovation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Attention to detail and ability to work independently.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work directly with a CEO pursuing doctoral research.
• Hands-on experience in high-level academic and business research.
• Internship certificate upon successful completion.

• The customer support team provides 24/7 high-quality customer engagement and a smooth experience.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for customers, addressing inquiries, resolving product-related issues, and guiding users through technical challenges.
• Deliver exceptional technical support by responding promptly to inbound queries, providing step-by-step guidance, and providing timely updates on open queries.
• Investigate and troubleshoot product-related issues in real-time, coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure swift resolution and customer satisfaction.
• Contribute to creating comprehensive product documentation, tutorials, and FAQs to empower the team and enhance self-help capabilities.
• Conducting thorough testing of new features within the test environment for a better understanding of the product.
• Provide status updates and conduct periodic meetings to keep clients up to date.
• Adhering to the escalation matrix promptly to guarantee that customer issues are addressed within the specified SLA.
• Maintain the KPIs and KRAs set to ensure alignment with organizational targets and goals.
• Adhering to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure the team consistently provides resolutions under established standards.
• Excellent verbal communication skills with the ability to convey technical information clearly to non-technical users.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail in issue resolution.
• Customer-focused mindset, ensuring a positive and supportive experience for users.
• Technical aptitude and the ability to understand and explain complex product features.
• Proven experience in customer support or a related role, with a track record of driving customer satisfaction.
• Familiarity with ticketing systems and other support tools to streamline issue resolution processes.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and adapt to evolving product requirements.
• Eagerness to learn about the product and its capabilities.
• Excellent written communication skills ensure the technical terms are understandable to non-technical individuals.

·     IMMEDIATE JOINER

Professional Experience with 5+ years in Confluent Kafka Admin

·    Demonstrated experience design / development.

·    Must have proven knowledge and practical application of – Confluent Kafka (Producers/ Consumers / Kafka Connectors / Kafka Stream/ksqlDB/Schema Registry)

·    Experience in performance optimization of consumers, producers.

·    Good experience debugging issues related offset, consumer lag, partitions.

·    Experience with Administrative tasks on Confluent Kafka.

·    Kafka admin experience including but not limited to setup new Kafka cluster, create topics, grant permissions, offset reset, purge data, setup connectors, setup replicator task, troubleshooting issues, Monitor Kafka cluster health and performance, backup and recovery.

·    Experience in implementing security measures for Kafka clusters, including access controls and encryption, to protect sensitive data.

·    Install/Upgrade Kafka cluster techniques.

·    Good experience with writing unit tests using Junit and Mockito

·    Have experience with working in client facing project.

·    Exposure to any cloud environment like AZURE is added advantage.

·    Experience in developing or working on REST Microservices

Experience in Java, Springboot is a plus

Responsibilities

·        You are responsible for various dimensions of testing (functional/non-functional), ensuring quality experiences for our customers.

·        With your extensive technical expertise and judgment, you are an integrated part of the software development team and define, document, analyze, perform and automate tests for products.

·        You will identify functional /non-functional issues and come up with creative resolutions from test automation.

·        You are responsible for adhering to best QA Automation practices and improving the quality of the products continuously.

·        You are responsible for creating reliability that enables and validates high quality releases at a fast pace.

·        You are responsible for creating and executing automation scripts on multiple platforms on Desktop, Mobile-Web and devices (iOS and Android app).

·        You are responsible for mentoring and guiding peer teammates for various projects.

·        Collaborating with QA Analysts and Software Developers to develop solutions.

·        Experience with Agile Scrum process.

·        You should have strong knowledge of different frameworks and knowledge of developing a test framework from scratch.

Desired Skills:

·        You should have a strong technical background, be detailed driven and have excellent problem-solving abilities.

·        Strong coding skills and OOD/OOP knowledge.

·        You should have around 5 -8 years of experience in test automation of Web/Mobile either.

·        You should have exposure to distributed systems or web applications/mobile applications.

·        Strong understanding of various testing cycles and release activities.

·        You must be aware of frameworks like Page Object Model, funtional object model.. etc.

·        Good to have working knowledge on performance testing and API testing tools like jmeter, Postman and rest-assured.

·        Experience participating of setup of test automation as part of CI/CD pipelines from the scratch.

·        Proficiency in programming languages in Java.

·        Have experience in industry best practices in development processes.

·        You should have strong experience in Selenium, appium, rest-assured.

Qualifications

·        Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/EC/ or any Related field.

·        Previous experience as a test automation engineer (at least 3 years as SDET)

·        Excellent mathematical and problem-solving skills.

·        Highly accurate and detail-oriented.

• Power BI Report development.
• Building Analysis Services reporting models.
• Developing visual reports, KPI scorecards, and dashboards using Power BI desktop.
• Connecting data sources, importing data, and transforming data for Business intelligence.
• Analytical thinking for translating data into informative reports and visuals.
• Capable of implementing row-level security on data along with an understanding of application security layer models in Power BI.
• Should have an edge over making DAX queries in Power BI desktop.
• Expert in using advanced-level calculations on the data set.
• Responsible for design methodology and project documentaries.
• Should be able to develop tabular and multidimensional models that are compatible with data warehouse standards.
• Very good communication skills must be able to discuss the requirements effectively with the client teams, and with internal teams.

About the Company:

This opportunity is for an AI Drone Technology startup funded by the Indian Army. It is working to develop cutting-edge products to help the Indian Army gain an edge in New Age Enemy Warfare.

They are working on using drones to neutralize terrorists hidden in deep forests. Get a chance to contribute to secure our borders against the enemy.

Responsibilities:

• Extensive knowledge in machine learning and deep learning techniques
• Solid background in image processing/computer vision
• Experience in building datasets for computer vision tasks
• Experience working with and creating data structures/architectures
• Proficiency in at least one major machine learning framework such as Tensorflow, Pytorch
• Experience visualizing data to stakeholders
• Ability to analyze and debug complex algorithms
• Highly skilled in Python scripting language
• Creativity and curiosity for solving highly complex problems
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Educational Qualification:

MS in Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science or equivalent field, with 3 years industry experience, a PhD degree or equivalent industry experience.

The expectation is to set up complete automation of CI/CD pipeline & monitoring and ensure high availability of the pipeline. The automated deployment environment can be on-prem or cloud (virtual instances, containerized and serverless). Complete test automation and ensure Security of Application as well as Infrastructure.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Configure Jenkins with load distribution between master/slave Setting up the CI pipeline with Jenkins and Cloud(AWS or Azure) Code Build Static test (Quality & Security) Setting up Dynamic Test configuration with selenium and other tools Setting up Application and Infrastructure scanning for security. Post-deployment security plan including PEN test. Usage of RASP tool. Configure and ensure HA of the pipeline and monitoring Setting up composition analysis in the pipeline Setting up the SCM and Artifacts repository and management for branching, merging and archiving Must work in Agile environment using ALM tool like Jira DESIRED SKILLS

Extensive hands-on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery technology experience of .Net, Node, Java and C++ based projects(Web, mobile and Standalone). Experience configuring and managing

• ALM tools like Jira, TFS, etc.
• SCM such as GitHub, GitLab, CodeCommit
• Automation tools such as Terraform, CHEF, or Ansible
• Package repo configuration(Artifactory / Nexus), Package managers like Nuget & Chocholatey
• Database Configuration (sql & nosql), Web/Proxy Setup(IIS, Nginx, Varnish, Apache).

Deep knowledge of multiple monitoring tools and how to mine them for advanced data Prior work with Helm, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, microservices, message queues and related technologies Test Automation with Selenium / CuCumber; Setting up of test Simulators. AWS Certified Architect and/or Developer; Associate considered, Professional preferred Proficient in: Bash, Powershell, Groovy, YAML, Python, NodeJS, Web concepts such as REST APIs and Aware of MVC and SPA application design. TTD experience and quality control with Sonarqube or Checkmarx, Tics Tiobe and Coverity Thorough with Linux(Ubuntu, Debian CentOS), Docker(File/compose/volume), Kubernetes cluster setup Expert in Workflow tools: Jenkins(declarative, plugins)/TeamCity and Build Servers configuration Experience with AWS CloudFormation / CDK and delivery automation Ensure end-to-end deployments succeed and resources come up in an automated fashion Good to have ServiceNow configuration experience for collaboration

What you will get:

1. To be a part of the Core-Team 💪
2. A Chunk of ESOPs 🚀
3. Creating High Impact by Solving a Problem at Large (No one in the World has a similar product) 💥
4. High Growth Work Environment ⚙️

What we are looking for:

1. An 'Exceptional Executioner' -> Leader -> Create an Impact & Value 💰
2. Ability to take Ownership of your work
3. Past experience in leading a team