test engineer

We are looking to expand our existing Python team across our offices in Surat. This position is for SDE-1 - Junior Software Engineer.

The requirements are as follows:

1) Familiar with the the Django REST API Framework.

2) Experience with the FAST API framework will be a plus

3) Strong grasp of basic python programming concepts ( We do ask a lot of questions on this on our interviews :) )

4) Experience with databases like MongoDB , Postgres , Elasticsearch , REDIS will be a plus

5) Experience with any ML library will be a plus.

6) Familiarity with using git , writing unit test cases for all code written and CI/CD concepts will be a plus as well.

7) Familiar with basic code patterns like MVC.

8) Grasp on basic data structures.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in facade and steel structure design under senior supervision.
• Prepare 2D CAD drawings for shop drawings, layouts, and material schedules.
• Support in creating facade tender packages and system details.
• Coordinate with architects, clients, engineers, and project leads.
• Participate in design meetings and provide basic engineering inputs.
• Track drawing submissions and maintain documentation/version control.
• Help resolve design challenges and ensure timely project deliverables.

Skills & Qualifications

• Degree/Diploma in Mechanical, Civil, Structural Engineering, or Building Design.
• Basic knowledge of AutoCAD or similar drafting tools.
• Familiarity with Rhino/SketchUp, Grasshopper/Python is a plus.
• Willingness to learn BIM tools.
• Understanding of materials like steel, aluminum, glass.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and communication abilities.

What we offer: 

• A multi-disciplinary role with tremendous opportunity to learn and grow in an early-stage startup.
• An open work culture - We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity. 
• Flexible working hours and leave policy.

Description:

As the Operations Manager, you will analyse the current state operations, propose workflows and tools that drive improvements to the app or for addressing country-specific needs. Identify and execute on opportunities, to streamline workflows and increase collaboration and productivity across the team. You will proactively track risks/issues with development, ensure business requirements are met, and advocate for future enhancements. Support the leadership team in implementing new ideas effectively within the Uable culture and manage change to maximise adoption of new tools or processes. Define operational metrics and develop reporting tools as needed, for leadership to understand business performance.

Your role/responsibilities:

• Understand the operational framework and work on efficient delivery mechanisms for customer support, Event management & programme management
• Build effective processes to handle escalations ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Work closely with learning design, product, growth, analytics teams to manage/execute the right processes.
• Ability to partner with global cross-functional business partners, engineering teams, and senior management, to identify and define short-term and long-term solutions to operational challenges.
• Leadership experience in process improvement and programme management experience in startups is a plus
• Coordinating cross function for implementing and execution of events, managing communication, managing event feedback surveys, handling post-event reports.
• Manage our events calendar, assisting with event marketing, monitoring timeframes, and delivering on event brief objectives. 

Skills/Qualifications (good to have):

• Have a proactive outlook to problem-solving and willingness to adapt in a highly demanding, collaborative, and fast-paced environment with rapidly changing direction and new challenges
• Proficient in Office Suite and Lead Management Software & project management skills
• Work with the Product Owners and coordinate with project managers and other departments to get projects released on time.
• Ability to manage, monitors and measures project portfolio status, recommending corrective action as necessary, and communicate portfolio status to their management.
• Ability to participate in interviewing, hiring, and training team members; plan, assign, and direct work; appraise performance; reward and discipline team members; address complaints and resolve problems
• Relentless focus on operational excellence by setting the right processes and improving efficiency at every step and balance attention to detail with swift execution.
• Strong quantitative analytical skills and experience developing dashboards and reporting tools using spreadsheet applications, Tableau, etc. a plus.
• Knowledge of the iOS, macOS, and App Store ecosystem a plus.

Personality: 

• You are a driven and curious person with the aptitude and agility to learn. 
• You are an extrovert and a leader who has built great teams and a team player with great interpersonal skills.
• You are detail and process-oriented person by nature. A natural problem solver and a go-getter.
• You don’t settle with what-is, you constantly strive for excellence.
• You are an explorer with the ability to investigate and get the data; define and work on multiple tasks and complete work within deadlines.
• You are a clear and concise communicator with the ability to synthesize a lot of information quickly, highlight the key takeaways, and disseminate actionable insights.

• Calling existing and potential customers to persuade them to purchase company products and services.
• Accurately recording details of customers’ purchase orders.
• Processing all customer purchases accordingly.
• Generating promising leads for the outside sales team to pursue.
• Managing customer accounts by ensuring that existing customers remain satisfied with company products and services.
• Developing and sustaining solid relationships with customers to encourage repeat business.
• Using sales scripts proffered by the company to drive sales and respond to customer rejections.
• Developing in-depth knowledge of customer products and services to make suitable recommendations based on customers' needs and preferences.
• Continually meeting or exceeding daily and monthly targets with respect to call volume and sales.

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or an analytical discipline and/or equivalent experience
• Must have experience with Implementing RSA Aveksa/ IGL
• Must have experience with Active Directory (AD), LDAP and/or X 500 directory services,
• Must have experience with JavaScript, HTML, C++ and/or XML programming,
• Excellent attendance and punctuality record,
• Excellent communication and team skills,

The group has diversified into the education segment and is running two schools. The schools are part of one of the largest private school chains in India. The schools have a flourishing family of 350 teachers and 6500 students. The leadership team at the helm of the company has demonstrable experience in financial services and has built the company by upholding the trust of its customers.

Desired Candidate Profile

• 5 to 6 years of experience in sales and marketing
• MBA (Finance) or equivalent from Tier 1 college
• Prior experience in banking or other financial institutions
• Hands on experience in business correspondent operation
• Problem solver    

• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture,
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS ‘big data’ technologies.
• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
• Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
• Keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions.
• Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.
• Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.

• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
• Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
• A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
• We are looking for a candidate with 5+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role, who has attained a Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field. They should also have experience using the following software/tools:

• Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
• Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift
• Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.

• Knowledge of various search engine optimization platforms, best practices, and website analytics.
• Up-to-date on the latest trends and technologies in SEO.
• Develop and mentor campaign budgets.*
• *Generate leads from Quality Clicks on Quality Websites.
• Work on SEO & other initiatives to increase domain reputation & rank.