Project Associate Job in Chennai at Cognizant

Cognizant is hiring for the role of Project Associate!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Guide team in preparation of technical specification document and review the same.
• Break down the baseline requirements into business and functional requirements.
• Provide support in the development of proof of concept identify tools and technologies to be used in the project as well as reusable objects that could be customized for the project.
• Leverage product-specified services/frameworks without impacts to version changes.
• Share the design document with the functional team post-supervisor review.
• Understand performance implications and design for scalability.
• Adept at design as per the latest methodologies adopted (Agile).
• Guide team in coding as per design.
• Follow coding standards and cloud products/platform best practices in development.
• Prepare guidelines and checklists (coding checklist, performance checklist, deployment checklist, etc.) for development and testing activities to update the performance, development, and coding checklist/(s).
• Share developed code with supervisor for review.
• Rework the code based on inputs if required.
• Perform complex cross-module / product/cloud integrations as per standards.
• Ensure completeness in test scenario preparation with functional teams.
• Guide the developers in identifying, preparing, and conducting unit test cases and fixing defects based on results.
• Identify components for performance testing.
• Consolidate the test results and share them with a supervisor.
• Provide periodic status updates to the supervisor and highlight/recommend any changes in design based on challenges faced.
• Update the traceability matrix for the work package developed.
• Anticipate unreported defects and raise the same to the supervisor.
• Conduct technical troubleshooting.
• Conduct reviews for codes created by the team.
• Provide support for process audit services.
• Coordinate with the QA team during the testing phase.
• Leverage tools/products for test data preparation.
• Support all upstream and downstream systems for integration and connectivity testing.
• Address queries raised by QA within defined timelines.
• Understand the impacts of product version upgrades on developed code for SAAS products.
• Conduct functional/nonfunctional testing if required.
• Fix complex defects identified during functional/nonfunctional testing.
• Understand the defect impact/criticality and handle it accordingly.

Requirements:

• Workday integrations knowledge
• Workday revenue management knowledge