Career Grades

Grade Business & Business Allied Business Enabling Description

Professionals Professionals
Junior Officer, Coordinator,
1 SE, SQAE, SCME, SQE, ABA, etc.
Associate, etc.
Senior “SE / SQAE / SCME /
2 Officer, Executive, etc
SQE”, BA, etc.
ASA, ADBA, Principal “SE /
3 Senior “Officer / Executive"
SQAE / SQE”, BA, etc.
SA, DBA, APM, Associate
4 Assistant Manager
Manager, BA, etc.
Regular employees on normal track towards
5A
senior grades
Employees who need professional proper help
5B Project Manager, Manager,
Manager to prepare them for leadership roles
Senior “SA / DBA / BA”, etc.
Employees who have reached their peak
5C professionally and can’t be moved in senior
grades
Senior Project Manager,
6 Senior Manager
Principal “SA / DBA / BA”, etc.
Business Consultant, Senior Project Manager, CTS, CTO, Any
7
Functional Role, Program Manager, Senior Manager
Global leadership roles within NetSol but
8A
operating from PK
Regional Leadership & Global liaison roles
8B
within NetSol
Can work internationally on need basis but
Senior Business Consultant, Program Manager, Senior
primary role is to lead a team in PK.
8C Program Manager, CTO, Any Functional Role.
International Projects delivery doesn’t fall in
this criteria.
Provides assistance to senior leadership &
8D scope of work revolves around deliverables
from PK.

Index

SE: Software Engineer, SQAE: Software Quality Assurance Engineer, SCME: Software Configuration Management Engineer,
SQE: Software Quality Engineer, ABA: Associate Business Analyst, BA: Business Analyst, ASA: Associate Software Architect,
ADBA: Associate Database Architect/Administrator, DBA: Database Architect/Administrator, SA: Software Architect/
System Analyst, APM: Associate Project Manager, CTS: Chief Technology Specialist, CTO: Chief Technology Officer

 Tenure in an employee’s current grade is only a pre-requisite that has to be met before the employee can be
nominated for a promotion. For promotion to Grade 5 & above, employee will have to go through the screening
process by the Promotion Board. For promotion to Grade 6 & above, key focus would be on, if the candidate
possesses leadership skills to inspire a team and also identify and train few juniors who could take his/her role.
Then comes the performance and other factors which include but are not limited to: sharing skills and knowledge,
volunteeringto conduct training sessions, establishing succession plans, interviewing job candidates, attending
ICAN classes, mentoring junior resources, sharing lessons learnt during important assignments with other
resources in a formal manner, etc.

 Categories of Grades (A, B, C & D) are solely for the knowledge of the concerned employee, HCD & Finance
department. It is strictly prohibited to share/disclose this information to anyone. In case of leak of information, the
employee responsible will be penalized with a PKR. 250,000/- fine at Grade 8 and PKR. 50,000/- fine at Grade 5