Sr. Associate - Projects Job in Cognizant

Technical Lead

Qualification:

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.