Job Description

Technical LeadQualification: BE/ B Tech / Product certifications especially for Cloud productsResponsibility: Design

• Guide team in preparation of technical specification document and review the same.

• Break down the base lines requirements into business and functional requirements.

• Provide support in 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 latest methodologies adopted (Agile).

• Coding.

• 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 Update the performance, development and coding checklist/(s).

• Share developed code with supervisor for review.

• Rework on 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 with supervisor.

• Provide periodic status update to supervisor and highlight / recommend any changes in design based on challenges faced.

• Update traceability matrix for the work package developed.

• Anticipate unreported defects and raise the same to supervisor.

• Conduct technical troubleshooting.

• Conduct reviews for codes created by team.

• Provide support for process audit services.

• The Senior Developer should have expert level knowledge of cross module data models , APIs as provided by product vendor especially for cloud applications.

• Testing.

• Coordinate with 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 impacts of product version upgrades on developed code for SAAS products.

• Conduct functional / non functional testing if required.

• Fix complex defects identified during functional / non functional testing.

• Understand the defect impact / criticality and handle accordingly.

• Raise issues to leads/QA.

• Report defect status as per project standard process within agreed timelines.

• Review defect fixes done by team guide them.

• Support System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

• Fix defects identified during UAT within agreed timelines.

• Share revised code with supervisor for review.

• Assist team lead and project manager on estimates around defect fixes.

• Deployment Support and Closure.

• Conduct allocated transition tasks as per agreed timelines.

• Address queries / provide assistance in fixing issues during warranty period.

• Provide prompt response during production support.

• Fix defects as and when required.

• Review defect fixes.

• Maintain code versions, dependency lists & deployment tracker.

• Perform sanity check post deployment to ensure smooth production Coordinate with cloud product administrators for cloud migration as needed.

• Share activity status with supervisor and highlight concerns if any.

• Service Support and Maintenance Release Management.

• Participate in scoping meetings and identify transition requirements for new projects.

• Reconfirm requirements with relevant stakeholders.

• Freeze SME calendar.

• Provide transition activities.

• Regularly track progress of transitions through weekly dashboards.

• Attend user calls, and capture required information and incident details for logging.

• Post information gathering, identify whether the incoming request is a service request or an incident.

• Determine urgency and impact of the situation.

• Assign appropriate priority to the incident.

• Assign the incident to the right stakeholder for a workaround/fix.

• Conduct analysis on various incidents that occur frequently.

• Categorize recurring incidents as problems/known errors.

• Provide support to resolve these errors.

• Initiate change management process.

• Analyze and prepare releases based on business process dependencies.

• Enable sprint test cycles and deployment for release management.

• Knowledge Management.

• Create specific artifacts for tasks allocated by supervisor.

• Share artifact with supervisor for review.

• Upload article in the knowledge management repository.

• Seek inputs from knowledge repository to resolve problems.

• Apply best practices/ learning during development activities.

• Guide and mentor team members from a technical perspective to ensure quality improvement.

• Contribute to / search / reuse all types of assets from repository.

• Support design of practice accelerators, tools in competency.

• Training and Recruitment / People Management.

• Provide support in creation of training courses and supporting artifacts on the training server such as demo, presentation on new versions of SAAS products.

• Conduct training with the help of academy and mentoring with respect to domain latest versions of SAAS products.

• Mentor new joiners in EAS function on an ongoing basis.

• Provide support to various project managers in identification of training needs of their subordinates.

• Provide inputs during goal setting and performance appraisal.

• Project Planning and Set up.

• Understand and contribute to resource plan.

• Identify appropriate processes based on project landscape.

• Identify gaps and advise on improvements if required.

• Share inputs in creation of project plan.

• Contribute to hardware/software requirement plan.

• Understand the test strategy, evaluate the design and identify gaps in the test plans, if any.

• Requirement Gathering and Analysis.

• Participate in requirement gathering sessions.

• Analyze functional/non functional requirements and seek clarifications for better understanding of requirements.

• Support Documentation.

• Define timeline estimates based on the requirements, complexity and inhouse capability.

• Communicate estimates to supervisor for review.

• Provide inputs on technical feasibility of requirements.

• Identify gaps in requirements.

• Share additional requirements identified with supervisor.

• Project Support.

• Measure and report the actual effort against the estimated effort and track task progress reporting.

• Keep a close track on any changes to Requirements and impact to cost and schedule.

• Business Development Support.

• Support Technical lead and contribute to proposals for minor enhancements and Application development type projects.

• Follow standard Cognizant process and estimation methodology.

• Oracle Analytics Cloud (OBIEE)

• Oracle Analytics Server Admin

• Oracle Analytics Publisher

• AX D365 System administration

• Oracle Analytics Server

• Oracle Analytics Cloud

• Finance & Accounting

Cognizant