Cognizant Job Vacancy Alert for ASSOCIATE - PROJECTS
Qualification:
Graduate
Responsibility:
Test Requirement Analysis:
• Identify requirement defects by adopting shift left levers eg:
Requirement Ambiguity Matrix, ADPART ,and other cognizant solution accelerators
* Perform KT on user stories.
• Design estimates (time /effort) based on the requirements analysis.
In case of critical technology, create test scripts and seek review inputs from the test lead.
• Understand and analyze the requirements (through review of requirement document) to identify the testable requirements.
• Prioritize the requirements based on the time required.
• Prepare highlevel flow documents.
• Organize and drive the requirement walkthrough session.
Prepare/Review the flow diagrams.
• Seek clarification on the requirements from the customer.
Perform Proof of concepts or evaluate different tools if required.
Test Strategy and Test Planning:
• Document the test plan based on the understanding of test strategy (covering project details, items under scope, items out of scope, type of testing, assumptions, dependencies, risks foreseen, entry/exit criteria) for each cycle.
• Seek signoff on the test plan from the client.
• Provide inputs for test plan creation including number of test scenarios and test cases used for estimation of the test cycles /schedule, dependencies etcin addition to the other dependencies from various teams like environment availability , third party interfaces and test data etc.
* Participate in collaborative sprint goal definition session to determine what the team plans to achieve during the sprint.
Participation in status calls/meetings between onsite and offshore teams to discuss the project status.
Test Design Techniques (Design principles/tools/patterns):
• Identify the test scenarios based on the understanding of systems, interfaces and application.
• Identify end to end business critical scenarios.
* Assist / support development team in unit test automation, identify environment dependencies, deployment strategies, build release cycle, test data dependencies etc.
• Create/Review the test scenarios (created by the Quality Engineer.
* Identify and validate test scenarios for automation.
* Perform In Sprint automation.
* Perform Automation Script Maintenance.
• Share created test scripts with test lead for review.
• Conduct pilot automation test run to validate the test scripts.
• Validate the test environment set up.
• Participate in customer review meetings and seek sign off by customer on the review comments.
• Identify regression scenario and the impacted areas on need basis.
• Perform effective automation through automated code coverage tools/ manual code review with minimal review comments.
• Develop supporting structures for all test automation including mocks, stubs, & test harnesses.
Coding Practices & Defect Management:
• Able to estimate and commit task level effort and deliver activities on time.
• Effective technical communication by participating in architectural/design reviews.
• Performance Development Process.
• Comprehensive understanding of full development lifecycle and is actively involved in all phases.
• Participate in the defect triages to gather evidence for defect identification on periodic basis for defect prioritization and fix.
• Track defect metrics to ensure testing effectiveness as generated by tool.
* Involvement with development teams, architects early in the project life cycle to identify the dependencies on architecture design, coding standards, deployment environment, deployment methodologies.
Test Execution (Automation/Specialized testing):
• Test the defect and update the status, if required.
• Conduct root cause analysis of the defects logged.
• Conduct dry run/smoke testing to ensure scripts readiness.
• Perform high level/Sanity testing to ensure testing is intact.
• Provide automation/white box and other status to Test Lead/Test Manager.
• Develop automated test scripts using technology concepts.
• Create test automation framework that suites the application under test using the identified test automation tool.
• Incorporate the automated tests into continuous integration process.
* Coordinate with the stakeholders to make gono go decision based on test results and test closure summary report.
* Possess knowlesdge on continous integration practices & identify appropriate CI tools based on project development model.
* Ensure CI Setup is done for each round and job creation is done using CI tools.
* Perform Frequent monitoring & Failure analysis will be done.
* Perform Script fixing for any errors/issues.
* Status is shared to onsite across all teams.
* Frequent Optimization /Maintenance.
Technology consulting Research & analysis:
• Support business on faster time to market activities.
• Adopt best practices to maximize savings and minimize redundancy.
Feasibility Study – new technology/ framework concept.
Code coverage analysis.
People Management:
• Develop and sustain positive relationships with peers.
* Identify training needs of team members.
* Identify, groom, reward and develop high performers.
* Resolve escalated conflicts and grievances.
Knowledge & Innovation Management:
* Creation of knowledge base with quality test automation process documents.
* Coordinate with team members, to upload the relevant document in knowledge management portals and keep it updated with the latest document.
* Improvise already existing processes based on the experience.
* Institutionalize systems and processes in place to implement innovation suggestion made by the team (eg adoption of Cognizant proprietary best practices / tools, process optimization like usage of tools, automation, etc ).
* Identify the time and cost savings made due to adoption of the best practices.
* Foster innovative culture in project team.
Project , Configuration & release Management:
* Possess fundamental of software configuration management including revision control and the establishment of baselines.
* Possess handson working knowledge of atleast 2 software configuration management tools.
• Adhere to all customer standards, policies and governance practices.
* Strong project management knowledge with ability to create plan, identify dependencies, risks & constraints & mitigation plans.
* Create timely status reports & provide timely deliverables & upload in project management tools.
* Identify suitable project metrics & continously track/monitor.
* Able to come up with preventive & corrective actions for risks.
Must-Have Skills
Selenium
Core Java
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