Technical Certification Developer
On-siteBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job Summary
Lead end-to-end development of high-stakes assessment programs by defining job task analysis outputs, establishing blueprint structures, and crafting scenario-based exam items including multiple choice and performance-based formats. Collaborate with instructional designers and subject matter experts to produce hands-on practice labs, official study guides, and documented item writing standards while enforcing security best practices through rigorous item bank management and version control. Facilitate technical review workshops to calibrate accuracy, clarity, and difficulty relevance, and support the appeals process by providing documented technical rationale for scoring decisions. Develop an initial item bank of 200+ validated items, finalize exam blueprints for advisory board approval, and launch pilot exams with established cut scores.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with API development, API gateway configuration, or API platform engineering
- Strong Kubernetes knowledge
- Demonstrated experience writing technical documentation, assessments, or instructional content at a professional level
- Strong understanding of the full API lifecycle: design, specification (OpenAPI/AsyncAPI), publishing, versioning, security (OAuth 2.0, API keys, mTLS), monitoring, and deprecation
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, scenario-based assessment items that measure applied competency rather than recall
- Meticulous attention to detail, with the ability to identify ambiguous, flawed, or biased exam questions
- Comfortable working in a structured, process-driven environment with documented review cycles and governance checkpoints
Desired Qualifications
- Familiarity with psychometric principles: item difficulty, discrimination indices, content validity, and standard-setting methods (Angoff, bookmark)
- Experience with exam-authoring or item-banking platforms (e.g., FastTest, Questionmark, Caveon, Trueability)
- Prior involvement in developing or contributing to a formal certification or accreditation program
- Hands-on experience with one or more API lifecycle management platforms (e.g., Kong, Apigee, MuleSoft, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management)
- Exposure to instructional design frameworks (e.g., Bloom's Taxonomy, Kirkpatrick Model, ADDIE)
- Relevant industry certification (e.g., AWS Certified Developer, Google Cloud Professional, CKAD, or equivalent)
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