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Manager - Projects

Cognizant

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Job Description

Project Manager

Qualification

Science, Engineering Graduate

Responsibility

Requirements Gathering
  • Participate in requirement gathering JAD sessions and support documentation where applicable (business functional UI usability data compliance data migration NFR 3rd party tools and products).
  • Raise clarifications with customer, onsite to eliminate any ambiguity on the scope of work assigned from the Client , Project Co coordinator, track to closure any open clarifications with customer, onsite, understand and translate requirements into design.
  • (FOR ONSITE)conduct meetings with customer SME BAs and architect to understand and clarify functional and technical requirements.
  • Resource, Efforts Estimation and Monitoring.
  • Provide input on technical effort estimation to arrive at resourcing plans, participate in management reviews and teleconferences and report weekly status and walkthrough to the Project Manager, Client.
  • Follow up with customer POC to resolve team issues and dependencies, raise concerns regarding changes in timelines and expectations with customer point of contact to resolve the same.
  • Design amd Analysis.
  • Develop proof of concept as designed by architect, setup development environment for team to work in, break up the modules considering technical aspects.
  • Understand interdependencies of the various components in work packages that are being developed.
  • Create design documents with the support of the architects for the assigned scope.
  • Work with architect to understand the architecture of the application high level approaches and ensure that the design is in line with overall direction.
  • conduct peer review as required.
  • Organize design review sessions with various stakeholders to validate design is as per requirements.
  • Coding.
  • Identify the standards applicable for the work packages, components.
  • Familiarize the team with development environment and CTS and customer spectific coding coding standards guidelines and best practices to be followed through sessions and document sharing.
  • Review the code created by team and provide review comments to the developers, develop code for core, critical module(s) needed for the project.
  • Contribute towards development of framework.
  • Develop, review tier coding business layer coding interface development service development creation of stored procedures etc as applicable for the work package, project.
  • Write efficient queries and understand logical and physical data models, follow up with Developers to ensure integration of components (input, output), troubleshoot critical technical issues, Handle escalations related to critical technical issues, create detailed tasks for the scope and share timelines for the same with the team, track the status of the tasks assigned maintain detailed task information for the work packages owned and do periodic reporting, conduct technical review and audit.
  • Create quality check points for all deliverables, estimate at task level in the area of work concerned measure and report the actual effort against the estimated effort and ensure task progress reporting in C20 or any other applicable tool.
  • Prepare and report status for the scope responsible, conduct peer reviews in coding and testing phase.
  • Testing.
  • Develop comprehensive unit testing cases for modules developed (as required)and unit test plans, execute unit testing.
  • Create unit test logs, prepare unit test strategy test plan document and data requirements, automate unit testing and contributing to automation of unit testing.
  • Perform developer integration testing by integrating the components developed by each individual team member and ensure that the integration for the teams work has been completed before the next phase of testing (system testing).
  • Sign off on test cases created by team, discuss results, actions from NFR testing and sign off on the same for system testing, NFR.
  • Defect Management.
  • Participate in defect triage meetin.

Must Have Skills

  • RoboticsProcessAutomation Tool
  • UiPath Developer
  • UiPath

The Cognizant community
We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

  • Cognizant is a global community with more than 350, 000 associates around the world.
  • We don t just dream of a better way - we make it happen.
  • We take care of our people, clients, company, communities and climate by doing what s right.
  • We foster an innovative environment where you can build the career path that s right for you.

About us
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U. S. , Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World s Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www. cognizant. com

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