Progress Looking for Technical Support Engineer, Senior at New Delhi, Delhi Full Time

We’re Progress – we offer the best platform for building and deploying tomorrow’s applications quickly and easily. We are bold, forward-thinking innovators who build things that work and care about our customers. We invent and reinvent every day, work together as one, value and respect each other and cheer our wins. Join us as a Technical Support Engineer for our Product Support Team.

The What’s Up Gold Technical Support team is part of a worldwide organization with team members in North America, Ireland and India. We focus on Progress’ Network Monitoring product, What’s Up Gold, by assisting our partners and end-users with the understanding, configuration and troubleshooting of our products. We are a close-knit, passionate team who likes to work hard and have fun while doing it!

The TSE provides technical support to customers and other departments. Handles technical issues of low to moderate complexity with little to no supervision. Specialized in one area/product with good customer care skills. Knowledgeable about internal procedures, processes, and tools. Excellent team player and communicator with very good diagnostic and troubleshooting skills.

WHAT YOU WILL DO IN THIS ROLE:
Interacts professionally and courteously with all customers and peers. Easily approachable, reacts calmly under stressful situations; receive constructive criticism well. Maintains confidentiality.

Follows the processes and procedures for technical support workflow.

Takes ownership of designated issues submitted by customers by making sure the problem is solved to the best possible way.

Conducts research using a variety of resources, including documentation, Knowledge Base, bug database, source code, and the worldwide technical and field teams via Community forums.

Maintains complete and accurate log of customer interactions and technical details.

Runs support cases provided by customers in order to reproduce and diagnose support incidents.

Communicates clearly and precisely with customers regarding technical issues setting expectations for callbacks and follow-up regarding their issues.

Manages difficult communication with customers in effective and professional manner with assistance from senior team members.

Escalates product issues to their product team members.

Logs product defects and feature requests clearly in the corresponding systems. Provides Development with clear and complete information, when development assistance is required, carrying out recommended diagnostic steps and gathering information as necessary.

Demonstrates and applies good understanding of knowledge capturing (e.g. create new knowledge resources and/or update the existing ones – product demos, KB and technical articles/documentation, code libraries.).

Reviews product documentation identifies topics needing improvement and is able to contribute.

Responsible for professional self-development by attending formal and informal training (webinars, white papers) offered within office and externally based on your development plan agreed with your manager. For example: industry trends, technologies and etc.

Increases product and procedural knowledge through self-training, work with colleagues, and experience with customer issues.

Prepares (Ensures readiness) for support of new product versions.

Builds constructive and effective relationships with peers and initiates communication to resolve any conflict in an assertive, tactful manner.

If needed is assigned as a “Guide” to new team members.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, WE NEED SOMEONE WHO HAS:
Professional experience in Technical Support, software product troubleshooting Windows software applications, and networking issues.

Strong customer service skills, including demonstrated ability to exercise good judgment in dealing with customer’s technical issues

Associates Degree in an IT related field or equivalent work experience desired

Excellent verbal and written communication skills including effective listening skills. Bilingual given extra consideration.

Proficiency in English adequate for complex communication with customers.

Analytical and troubleshooting skills specific to software related issues. Basic Windows administration and configuration knowledge.

Experience with web technologies (i.e. IIS, AS2, EDI, PGP, PKI, S/MIME, Apache)

Basic knowledge of internet protocols (DNS, FTP, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP, SNMP, IMAP, SSL, POP3, SSH, WMI, TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6 and IPSec)

Experience in Firewalls, switches, routers and wireless, plus Windows Active Directory. VMWare and/or other virtualization products a plus

Knowledge of troubleshooting tools such as: Telnet, Ping, TraceRT, NSLookup

SQL (MySQL, SQL, Oracle) knowledge and database administration (configuration, queries, Management Studio) preferred

Experience with a CRM or defect tracking system, extra consideration given for Jira, SalesForce, and SalesForce Service Cloud experience desired.

Shift Timings: 05:00 AM – 02:00 PM

What we offer in return is the opportunity to join a talented team of bright and nice people and to also enjoy:

Here at Progress, we truly care about your employee experience. It is important to us for our employees to balance their work and home life, obtain viable options for their health and wellness, grow their career, and plan for financial success.

30 days of earned leaves plus an extra day off for your birthday, various other leaves like Marriage leave, Casual leave, Maternity leave, Paternity Leave

Premium Group medical Insurance for employee and 5 dependents, Personal accident insurance coverage, Life insurance coverage

A modern office with a well-equipped gym onsite, free access to Yoga, Zumba classes by professional trainers

Professional development reimbursement

Interest subsidy on loans – either vehicle or personal loans

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