Cognizant is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States. It was founded by Kumar Mahadeva, Francisco D’Souza on 26 January 1994. Cognizant has recently announced an off-campus drive 2022 for freshers and experienced candidates. Interested candidates can apply for this drive. So let’s check eligibility criteria and job details.
Job Details
- Organization Name – Cognizant
- Qualification – Bachelors in science, engineering, or equivalent
- Job Role – ASSOCIATE – PROJECTS
- Batch -Any Batch
- Salary – 3.5- 9.5 LPA
- Employee Status – Full-Time Employee
- Branch – Any Branch
- Contract Type – Regular
- Experience – Freshers and experienced
- Location – India
Eligibility Criteria
- Qualification – Bachelors in science, engineering, or equivalent
- Any Batch candidates are eligible.
- Be deadline-oriented and quality focused
- Ready to work in Shifts and in a 24X7 work environment as per business specifications
- Excellent Technical and Computer Knowledge is a must.
- Ability to handle conflicts, Ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to learn fast, and work excellently in a team.
- Both Freshers and experienced candidates are eligible for this role.
- Ability to manage a positive attitude and have a collaborative and associated work environment
- Required analytical thinking including independent decision-making skills
Responsibility
Project Proposal:
- Candidates should create case studies to highlight experience/credentials which feed into the proposals.
- Collect requirements from the Business Analyst to understand the project, and the skill sets required.
- Analyze the time required on the assignment and the # of resources to be deployed based on an initial estimation as created by the Test Analyst.
- Gather review inputs on resourcing and estimation from the test manager.
Knowledge Transition and Technical Guidance:
- Need to understand the high-level requirements through review of documents (eg Component Design Document/ Requirements document).
- Document the understanding as part of the reverse KT.
- Pursue signoff from the client.
- Update/Review KT documents created by Test Analyst.
- Seek review of updated documents from relevant stakeholders.
- Understand the critical business flow in terms of resource load, the volume of data, etc.
- Conduct feasibility studies to identify tools /methodologies /frameworks to meet the client’s requirements.
- Design estimates are based on the analysis of the requirements and inputs from the test analyst.
- Partner with the Business Analyst to provide suggestions on the requirements to drive clarity based on experience in earlier projects.
Test Requirements Study
- The candidate should understand and analyze the requirements (through a review of the requirement document) to identify the testable requirements.
- Prioritize the requirements based on the time required.
- Need to prepare/Review the flow diagrams.
- Review/create the requirement traceability matrix.
- Seek clarification on the requirements from the customer.
- Create a requirement query tracker (or clarification document) to track any clarification.
- Identify gaps in the requirements and take action to close them same.
- Prepare high-level flow documents.
- Organize and drive the requirement walkthrough session.
- Reach out to the Technology team if required.
- Perform Proof of concepts or evaluate different tools if required.
Test Strategy & Test Planning:
- Seek signoff on the test plan.
- Providing information to the test leads to creating a test strategy (including release date, testing types, the scope of the project, detailed explanation of particular release, RAID Risk, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies, etc).
- Gather inputs from the client (eg Types of testing, Development teams, Client managers, etc).
- Prepare test plan covering timelines, resource (Man /Machine) deployment (How it will be tested).
- Identify specific entry and exit criteria.
- Provide Test Environment Requests.
- Identify the need for test automation along with Test Lead.
Test Design & Test Development:
- If required, provide a Test Case walkthrough and seek customer sign-off inclusive of Prioritization of Test cases, Optimization options.
- Identify the test scenarios based on the understanding of systems, interfaces, and applications.
- Identify end-to-end business critical scenarios.
- Need to validate the test environment setup.
- Create/Review the test scenarios (created by the Test Analyst) and RTM.
- Design estimates (time /effort) based on the requirements analysis.
- In case of critical technology, create test scripts and seek review information from the test lead.
- Identify and validate test scenarios for automation.
- Should create automation test scripts.
- Share created test scripts with the test lead for review.
- Conduct a pilot automation test run to validate the test scripts.
- Participate in customer review meetings and seek sign-off by the customer on the review comments.
- Based on the changes in the requirement, identify the regression scenario and the impacted areas on a need basis.
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Knowledge Management:
- Maintain knowledge management portals and create artifacts (eg collaterals, reusable assets) to drive knowledge management.
- Capture and document the business/ application levels requirements details in WIKI that can be used for induction of new members to the project teams.
- Conduct KT for new team members.
- Organize boot camp for new joiners.
Test Execution & Closure:
- Candidate should participate in the defect triages to gather evidence for defect identification on a periodic basis for defect prioritization and fix.
- Test the defect and update the status, if required.
- Conduct root cause analysis of the defects logged.
- The candidate should prepare a Test Summary Report and share the same for review/ Review of the test results/test reports submitted by the test analyst.
- Capture lessons learned and the best practices adopted.
- Identify the time and cost savings made due to the best methods adopted.
- If requested, participate in release management to share the impact of production dates.
- Occasionally generate metrics based on the audience.
- Provide automation/white box and another NFR status to the Test Lead.
- Review metrics to identify areas for process optimization.
- Perform dry run/smoke testing to ensure script readiness.
- Execute the scripts.
- Monitor proper server monitoring counters (eg CPU utilization, memory utilization, etc).
- Perform high-level/Sanity testing to ensure testing is intact.
- Conduct acceptance testing, if required.
- Track defect metrics to ensure testing effectiveness as generated by the QC tool.
- Track of test cases executed as part of the daily tracker to ensure productivity.
Audit and Maintenance and Support:
- Upload the project-specific information in the portal (eg Cognizant 20/SharePoint portal.
- Participate in audits at various stages to check for adherence to the CTS processes or guidelines (sometimes client specific).
- Specific to PACE Validate recommendations by conducting reassessment post a certain period to check whether required results are met or not.
Project & Stakeholder Management:
- Recognize and track the risks along with the mitigation for closure.
- Track resource availability based on the criticality of the project.
- Take corrective steps to ensure project health.
- Share information on the project’s health through weekly calls with clients.
- Assess the technical skills of the resources.
- Seek further resources from the test manager, if needed.
- Compose status reports (task planned for the current & next week, tasks accomplished, action items. analysis resource workload, etc).
- Experience in a monthly governance meeting (Progress on each application, Utilization Report, Types of defects, Value add provided by the team, Improvements in the form of artifact creation, productivity, etc).
- Track and Monitor metrics (productivity, effort deviation, schedule deviation, etc) to Cognizant 20.
- Provide requisite training.
Must-Have Skills
- HP ALM
- Agile
- Jira
I hope this blog will helpful for you. If you have any doubt regarding the job recruitment then comment below in the comment section.
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