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Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using Katalon Studio for web, API, mobile, and desktop applications.
• Create and execute detailed test plans, test cases, and test scripts based on business requirements and technical specifications.
• Perform functional, regression, smoke, integration, and end-to-end testing across multiple environments.
• Build and manage reusable test frameworks and keyword-driven test libraries within Katalon.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Conduct API testing using Katalon's built-in API testing capabilities and tools like Postman or REST Assured.
• Log, track, and verify defects using bug tracking tools such as Jira; ensure timely closure of issues.
• Participate in sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives as part of an Agile team.
• Analyse test results, generate reports, and communicate quality metrics to stakeholders.
• Mentor junior QA team members and contribute to continuous improvement of QA processes.

Good to have

• Katalon certification or any ISTQB / CSTE quality assurance certification.
• Experience with Appium or mobile testing frameworks for Android and iOS.
• Knowledge of performance testing tools such as JMeter or Gatling.
• Familiarity with BDD frameworks like Cucumber and Gherkin syntax.
• Exposure to cloud-based testing platforms such as BrowserStack or Sauce Labs.
• Understanding of SQL for database validation and backend testing.

Responsibilities: 

• Develop and maintain high-quality, efficient, and scalable backend applications. 
• Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) 
• Write clean, well-documented, and testable code adhering to best practices. 
• Collaborate with team members to ensure the successful delivery of projects. 
• Debug and troubleshoot complex technical problems. 
• Identify and implement performance optimizations. 
• Participate in code reviews 
• Hands-on experience with Springboot, Java 8 and above. 
• 2-5 years of experience developing Java applications. 
• Knowledge about at least one messaging system like Kafka, RabbitMQ etc. 
• Required React developer requirements, qualifications & skills: 
• Proficiency in React.js and its core principles 
• Strong JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 skills 
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Redux) 
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) principles. 
• Experience with design patterns and best practices for Java development. 
• Proficient in unit testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit). 
• Experience with build automation tools (e.g., Maven, Gradle). 
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git). 
• Experience with one of these databases – Postgres, MongoDb, Cassandra 
• Knowledge on Retail or OMS is a plus. 
• Experienced in containerized deployments using Docker, Kubernetes and DevOps mindset 
• Ability to reverse engineer existing/legacy and document findings on confluence. 
• Create automated tests for unit, integration, regression, performance, and functional testing, to meet established expectations and acceptance criteria. 
• Document APIs using Lowe’s established tooling. 

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. 

About the Role

A highly motivated and passionate individual who has experience in executing end to end web based products and applications; bringing them to production quickly and with high quality. Passionate about building flexible and scalable solutions with an eye for detail and can weigh pros and cons to find best possible solutions. 

Role and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
• Understand the product requirements, ask questions, and gather information and feedback to design and deliver features both on Android and iOS.
• Create a roadmap of tasks to be delivered for both iOS and Android applications in sync, such that new features go to the end-user at same time. 
• Lead the design of Android and iOS applications in a modular fashion with reusable components.
• Proactively identify issues related to memory consumption, battery drain and multi-threading in the application by planning regular tests and analysis.
• Deliver Android and iOS applications with integration to backend services deployed on the cloud with high quality and responsiveness. 
• Create strong practices around test driven development, automating delivery of apps to the marketplace with strong CI/CD practices.
• Manage a highly skilled and efficient team by hiring, keeping the team motivated, and managing performance.
• Play the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment. Should be able to help other developers with challenges, problem solving, and help achieve milestones as per plan.
• Prioritize to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.
• Hands on with programming with 50%+ of bandwidth going into modules owned.

Skills/Experience

• A highly talented developer with 10+ years of hands-on experience in building apps that have been released to the Play Store(Android) and Appstore(iOS). 
• Demonstrated experience managing teams of 5-10 or more engineers in mobile application teams.
• Strong knowledge of Android, Kotlin, iOS, Swift, Objective C and working with MVVM, MVP, MVC patterns.
• Experience building mobile applications which lean heavily on connecting to cloud services to gather data and stream videos/content. 
• Working knowledge of Xamarin or Flutter (cross platform frameworks) is highly preferred. 
• Practitioner of test driven development practices. Experience in creating and adhering to best practices for development.

Job Description

• Experienced in Cloud (AWS, Digital Ocean, Google& Azure) development and System Operations.
• Cloud Storage Services and prior experience in designing and building infrastructure components in Amazon. DigitalOcean (or other cloud providers).
• Strong Linux experience (Red Hat 6.x/CentOS 5.x & 6.x, Debian).
• Expert Knowledge in - Git, Jenkins
• Should have experience in CI/CD Automation using tools like Jenkins, Ansible, puppet/Mcollective, Chef Docker, Kubernetes, GIT, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Hashicorp Vault Docker, Kubernetes, Python Scripting etc.
• Good working knowledge with scripting languages such as Python, php
• Good communications and Presentation Skills

Preferred Education:

Bachelor's Degree or global equivalent in Computer Science or related field