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Sr. Associate - Projects
4-5 years
₹ 4.6 - 20.5L/yr (AmbitionBox estimate)
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Kolkata
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Sr. Associate - Projects
Cognizant
posted 17d ago
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Flexible timing
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Job Description
- 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 didnt.
- 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
- Databricks SQL
- Python
Good To Have Skills
- Spark in Scala
- Delta Sharing
- Databricks Delta Lake
- Databricks Unity Catalog Admin
- Databricks CLI
- Delta Live Pipelines
- Structured Streaming
- Databricks Workflows
- Risk Management
- Apache Airflow
- PySpark
- Amazon S3
- Amazon Redshift
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
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