Careers

Experience of around 10 – 15 years in Project/Program Management with a focus on IT infrastructure projects. This requirement is for the MES (Manufacturing engineering systems) group of an automotive company. Role would be initially start with Program Management of IT projects and subsequently extend to other projects within the group.

Experience/Skills:

• 10+ years of experience with minimum of 8 years in IT with specific experience in leading, measuring and improving the delivery & support of various projects in manufacturing / engineering domain.
• Experience in effectively working with geographically distributed cross-functional engineering teams combined with manufacturing knowledge.
• Managing multiple programs and successfully delivering projects against aggressive cost, schedule and scope commitments.
• Knowledge of ITIL framework and standard project management tools would be an advantage.
• Experience working with different project management models such as Agile, Waterfall etc.
• Process skills: an understanding of process costs, ability to work with multiple stakeholders to ensure effective operations against agreed SLA’s.
• Ability to produce results by building excellent working relationship with all stakeholders.
• Strong teamwork and partnering approach to working in a multi-vendor/team environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex ideas in easy-to-understand business terms.
• Experience working in engineering/manufacturing environment is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to assess organization’s needs, risk analysis & mitigation, decide and influence appropriate courses of action.
• Good knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures
• Conduct periodic status reviews and share program status reports in standard reusable formats/dashboards.
• Certification in PMP and / or PRINCE2 would be an advantage.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Planning and designing the program and proactively monitoring its progress, resolving issues and initiating appropriate corrective action.
• Defining the program’s governance model
• Ensuring there is allocation of common resources and skills within the individual projects.
• Managing third party contributions to the program
• Managing communications with all stakeholders
• Managing both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects
• Managing risks to the program’s successful outcome
• Ensure that the right product is developed to meet or exceed company’s quality standard and is delivered at the right time.
• Lead program teams and facilitate the communication and interaction among the functional / technical representatives.
• Develop and implement recovery plans for off-schedule and unanticipated eventualities.

Behavioral

• Self-driven and aware of the latest technologies and trends in IT, program management.
• Being polite and at the same time assertive.
• Listening capability to gain a broader understanding of the program objectives and apply understanding at work.
• Effective problem determination (experience in root cause analysis) and problem resolution skills
• Ability to work positively with the wide range of individuals involved in program management.
• Strong leadership and management skills
• Ability to find innovative ways to resolve problems.

Location: Bangalore / Chennai

Test Automation Architect (6 to 8 years)

• Ability to define and implement automation frameworks for automated functional testing of Java/J2EE Web based/Cloud Applications.
• Specific experience in Cucumber framework with Selenium tool and using this framework for automating Java applications is a mandatory skill.
• Strong understanding of Monolithic and Micro services-based Java applications, Development frameworks such as Eclipse/Spring Boot
• Knowledge of REST API would be a plus (Postman/Swagger)
• Work closely with manual QA leads to understand the automation scope, split the manual test cases into automation script components.
• Rapidly address UI design/functionality changes to application and update/maintain automated scripts.
• Define architecture to integrate automated test cases into the CICD pipeline.
• Experience with Jenkins server for deployment, execution, and reporting of automated execution status.
• User-level experience in bit bucket, and skills to merge/update existing automated code with new code.
• Ability to overcome framework limitations by programming on Java /Javascript.
• Knowledge in using JIRA ticketing tool would be an advantage but not mandatory.
• Ability to lead a team of automation engineers and deliver high quality work output against an aggressive schedule.
• Periodic status reporting and implementation of customer feedback, combined with an ability to present the framework and automation methodology to developers.

Test Automation Engineers (experience 2 to 6 years)

• Senior/Junior Test automation engineers with ability to develop automated test scripts based on a defined framework.
• Experience in creating automation scripts on Cucumber framework with Selenium.
• Understand the architecture, work closely with architects and manual QA engineers in executing automation scripts and reporting status.
• Programming skills in Java/Javascript/REST API is a must
• Strong collaboration skills with Manual QA team to ensure timely delivery.
• Ability to quickly solve script issues arising out of application changes.
• User-level knowledge of Jenkins and Bitbucket for deployment and execution.

Siemens Teamcenter Techno-Functional Consultant
Experience of around 8 – 10 years with strong background in Siemens Teamcenter & Java/J2ee applications development. Good knowledge on design patterns for web applications using rich GUI – React, Angular JS and HTML 5 etc. Self-driven and aware of the latest technologies and components available and implementing them in building new solutions.

Siemens Teamcenter Knowledge

• In depth understanding of Siemens Teamcenter from Technical and Functional perspective
• Hands on experience on Siemens Teamcenter deployment, configuration, product extensions, customizations, data migration & building integrations
• Good understanding of discrete manufacturing / automotive domain
• Ability to understand business requirement and provide architecture & solution to customer on the platform (Teamcenter)
• Ability to play business analyst role to help customers in achieving their business goals and implementing the same on the platform.
• Experience in implementing Teamcenter in automotive & manufacturing domain would be an advantage. .

Key Technologies / Desired Skills

• Java/J2ee/ Web Services – REST
• Database Concepts Knowledge – Oracle and MSSQL Server.
• Basic knowledge of DevOps tools
• Understanding of automation testing tools like Junit, Selenium & Cucumber
• API interface tools like postman/swagger.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Preparing design specifications for a Teamcenter application – functional and technical
• Defining performance benchmarks
• Define the application architecture and components selection.
• Analyze and understand the existing IT landscape of customer.
• Define Integration Strategy: Help customer design the flow and characteristics of interface requirements. Define high level plan and strategy for interfaces development & deployment.
• Define High Level interface design specifications – with data communication, data triggers, data translation rules, data sets and mappings to other system elements.
• Define data conversion strategy – Identify data conversion needs for the data flowing from the various systems before it is fed to the Teamcenter system.
• Define data migration needs, strategy, and migration approach for bringing in data into Teamcenter.

Required Experience

• Experience with engineering software deliveries with exposure in designing business critical applications, enterprise technical architecture and defining architectural roadmaps. .
• Exposure to various data migration and integration architecture and approaches.
• Worked in Agile sprints. .
• Worked in coordination with other onsite Product / Customer teams. .

Location: Bangalore / Chennai