Associate - Projects

 Associate - Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

2 days agoFull–time

Technical Lead Qualification:Bachelors in science , engineering or equivalent Responsibility: Project Planning and Setup: • Understand the project scope, identify activities/ tasks, task level estimates, schedule, dependencies, risks and provide inputs to Module Lead for review. • Provide inputs to testing strategy, configuration, deployment, hardware/software requirement etc. • Review plan and provide feedback on gaps, timeline and execution feasibility etc as required in the project. • Participate in KT sessions conducted by customer/ other business teams and provide feedback on requirements. Requirement Understanding and Analysis: • Analyze functional/non functional requirements and seek clarifications for better understanding of requirements. • Based on understanding of system upstream & downstream, provide feedback and inputs on gaps in requirements and technical feasibility of requirements. Design: • Prepare the LLD/ detailed design documents based on HLD and briefing from Module Lead. • Seek inputs from the developers on specific modules as applicable. • Consolidate all modules and provide to Module Lead/ Architects/ Designers for review. • Suggest changes in design on technical grounds. • Develop components inventory for the code to be developed tying it to the nonfunctional requirements. • Perform sampling of data to understand the character/ quality of the data (project dependent in the absence of data analyst or designer). • Identify tools and technologies to be used in the project as well as reusable objects that could be customized for the project. Coding: • Follow coding standards and best practices to develop code and check code quality. • Share developed code with supervisor for review. • Rework on the code based on inputs if required. • Perform complex integration. • Guide the developers in identifying, preparing and conducting unit test cases and fixing defects based on results. • Consolidate the test results and share with supervisor. • Provide periodic status update to supervisor and highlight / recommend any changes in design based on challenges faced. • Anticipate unreported defects and raise the same to supervisor. • Conduct technical troubleshooting. • Conduct reviews for codes created by team. Testing Management: • Develop unit test case for each module. • Conduct/ guide conducting of unit and integration testing and fix defects. • Review/ approve code to be moved to testing environment. • Provide support to the QA team and coordinate for various phases of testing. • Address queries raised by QA within defined timelines. • Investigate critical defects and establish need for fixing. • Raise issues to leads/QA. • Report defect status as per project standard process within agreed timelines. • Share revised code with supervisor for review. • Assist team lead and project manager on estimates around defect fixes. Configuration Management: • Maintain versions of the code or consolidate version maintained by the Developers. • Provide support as required to the Administrators during configuration, code backups, deployment etc. Deployment: • Assess and create deployment/ roll back plan. • Validate if all the components have been migrated and the right version is checked in. • Maintain deployment tracker. • Perform sanity checks post deployment to ensure smooth production. • Share activity status with supervisor and highlight concerns if any. Project Execution Monitoring & closure (Support to Project Management activities): • Monitor work of the developers and share work achieved with them. • Provide guidance through SDLC. • Provide status of progress to leads. • In case of change requests, provide inputs on the plan. Service Support and Maintenance: Specific to production and maintenance support: • Provide support for 1 week and hand over to production team. • Identify if the incoming request is a service request/ defect during the warranty or an incident. • If it is code defect in the warranty, highlight to Lead and initiate defect fix process. • Post warranty, support in transition to maintenance team. Knowledge Management: • Post release participate in project review call and discuss points on what went well and what didn't. • Create and update knowledge articles (case studies, lessons learnt) in the knowledge management repository. • Guide developers in creating such documents. • Publish white papers/ blogs/ articles (if required). People Management: • Conduct training through academy or internally within the team. • Conduct technical, face to face interviews for internal transfer or external hiring. • Provide feedback on Developers form technical /domain standpoint to the module lead. Must Have Skills • NoSQL • MarkLogic • XML Good To Have Skills • Core Java • XSLT • Claims • Medical Management • Enrollment