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About Us:

Kapture Cx is an Enterprise-grade SaaS-based Customer Support Automation platform that provides businesses across industries with all-in-one customer service software. It's a cloud CRM that’s more than just a helpdesk designed to meet the needs of any industry. At Kapture, we believe that daily customer operations should be made simple and efficient to meet up with all the endless demands of customers.

Kapture is the preferred choice of leading brands including Nykaa, Meesho, Bigbasket, Unilever, Zepto, Ajio, Netmeds, Jio, Prestige and many others to build a world-class customer support ecosystem. Kapture Cx is headquartered in Bangalore and we have offices in Mumbai, Delhi/NCR and Florida. Our channel Partner network spans across 12 countries and powers 500+ businesses globally to automate their sales and support.

Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Project Manager / Implementation Manager to lead and oversee the successful implementation of our SaaS CRM solution for our B2B customers. As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing all aspects of the implementation process, including team handling and people management, to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest level of customer satisfaction.

Key Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in an IT services / Software product company with B2B SAAS implementation. 
• Strong project management skills with a proven track record of successfully managing complex software implementation projects, preferably in the SaaS CRM domain.
• Excellent leadership abilities to effectively manage and motivate cross-functional teams throughout the implementation lifecycle, including team handling and people management experience.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of B2B customer needs and challenges related to CRM systems.
• Proficient in utilizing project management tools and methodologies to plan, track, and report on project progress.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with customers, stakeholders, and internal teams, ensuring clear and consistent communication throughout the implementation process.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and address project risks and issues proactively.
• Strong customer focus with the ability to build strong relationships, understand customer requirements, and deliver solutions that meet customer expectations.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Lead and manage end-to-end implementation projects of our SaaS CRM solution for B2B customers, ensuring successful delivery within scope, schedule, and budget.
2. Build and manage a high-performing implementation team, providing guidance, support, and mentorship to team members, and fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
3. Collaborate with sales and pre-sales teams to understand customer requirements and create project implementation plans that align with customer expectations and business objectives.
4. Develop and maintain project schedules, work breakdown structures, and resource allocation plans to effectively manage project timelines and resources, including team members' workloads and assignments.
5. Define project deliverables, milestones, and success criteria, and monitor progress against these throughout the implementation process.
6. Manage project risks and issues, proactively identify potential obstacles and implement mitigation strategies to ensure successful project outcomes.
7. Coordinate and communicate with cross-functional teams, including development, testing, quality assurance, and customer support, to ensure seamless integration and alignment during the implementation process.
8. Conduct regular project status meetings, providing updates to stakeholders and customers on project progress, risks, and issues.
9. Ensure a high level of customer satisfaction by managing customer expectations, addressing concerns, and providing timely and effective solutions.
10. Contribute to the continuous improvement of implementation processes, tools, and methodologies, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

Experience: 

6+ years of experience in project management large and medium sized engagements 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Demonstrate excellent project management skills, inspire teamwork and responsibility with team members, provide project management expertise and leadership in the execution of complex software projects. 
• Accountable and responsible for managing and reporting project schedule, cost, quality, human resources, communication, risk and procurement for the project. 
• Consistently apply the defined project management standards and methodologies defined by the organization to assigned projects. Establish project management principles, processes, and artefacts as necessary. 
• Drive appropriate organizational change influencing stakeholders as required to ensure the successful program/project execution. 

• Ensure appropriate involvement of all stakeholders on the project as necessary 
• Plan and direct schedules, monitor budget/spending, resource allocation and utilization for the project from initiation through closure.  
• Manage project schedule and budgets – Track project metrics data (e.g., completed and in-progress work, schedule and cost variances, resource health, risks and issues etc.) and other project specific information and regularly communicate it to the project stakeholders 
• Report progress and health of the project and incorporate feedback from all stakeholders 
• Manage project communications and meetings (Daily Stand-Up Meetings, Project Reviews, AdHoc Requests) 

• Proactively manage or project risks, action items, issue resolutions, key decisions and stakeholder feedback 
• Understand dependencies and organize the activities ensuring successful completion of the project  
• Communicate regularly with the project sponsor and the team 
• Proactively identify and manage risks and issues pertaining to the project. 
• Ensure project governance practices are in place to monitor and control the project 

Experience/ Qualifications 

• PMP or similar certification with good understanding of project management and methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile 
• Strong stakeholder management skills 
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) 
• Solid decision making and prioritization skills 

• Good understanding of budgeting, estimation, and project financial management 
• Experience of working in shared resources environment with teams based across different time zones 
• Knowledge of MS Project for overall project tracking, Jira for tracking agile development and SharePoint as collaboration tool 
• Bachelors degree 

Lead QA Engineer - Automation:

We are looking for a candidate who will be an agent of change and who will drive and execute based on our Quality and Reliability Transformation Roadmap. He/She will be responsible for testing Education Service domains across platforms, automation of functional/regression and RFB (sanity) service test suites, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline and Shift Left methodologies. We will also expect the candidate to take ownership of a functional domain and play a hands-on role in the execution of testing for projects in this area.

The candidate should have extensive experience in testing, testing automation, testing leadership and software development. The candidate should be proficient in-service automation testing tools like Eclipse, IDNE, Jenkins, GIT hub and Chatbot testing like Botium. The candidate should have at least 7+ years of service testing or software development experience.

The candidate should be flexible, highly adaptable and an excellent team player. The candidate is expected to work with Agile teams that consist of test analysts, developers, automation engineers and other stake holders. The candidate should expect to work in a global virtual team, sometimes across multiple time zones. The candidate may be assigned to more than one role or project at a time.  

Lead QA Engineer - Automation Responsibilities:

• Create automation plan and delivery roadmaps
• Develop test automation solutions for applications across different platforms
• Adhere to existing standards; provide suggestion to improve and set new standards
• Participate in technical discussions with engineering teams to understand application architecture and API model
• Collaborate with QA Engineers and Software Developers to identify test automation scope and priorities
• Configure, maintain, and operate service test automation tools and frameworks
• Capture requirements and test cases, understand application features, analyse requirements and develop test automation solution with a view of the end-to-end application flow
• Design and create robust automated test scripts to address business and technical use cases
• Integrate test automation scripts with Continuous Integration and Delivery pipeline
• Communicate progress to the senior leadership on a regular basis
• Should have Education Service domain and application knowledge

Lead QA Engineer - Automation Requirements: 

A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

• 7-11 years’ experience working as a Service Test Automation Engineer
• Experience in collaborating effectively across a variety of IT and business groups, across regions, roles, and able to interact effectively with all levels
• Proven record of execution of QA strategy and unification of QA processes across organization
• Must have hands-on experience with Selenium automation using Java
• Must have experience in Chatbot testing like Botium.
• Working knowledge of any Relational Database and DB Queries.
• Working knowledge of tool and technologies like Jenkins, GIT, JIRA and ALM
• Well versed with approaches like BDD, Keyword Driven, Data Driven and hybrid Driven test automation.
• Good to have understanding of model-based testing.
• Understanding of Agile/Waterfall development process and is comfortable diving into the technical architecture of complex and highly scalable solutions
• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills. Experience in presenting to diverse audiences and conducting education and training.
• Have deep experience in defining and developing the service test automation framework.
• Development background is a major plus.
• knowledge of Rest, SOAP, MQ and microservices. (Nice to Have)