Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company. provide the new digital skills and technologies that help manufacturers make business decisions based on real-time contextual data.

Cognizant hiring fresher Software Technology Specialist having proficient knowledge in any of the programming languages, having sound understanding of Software Development Life Cycle ( SDLC ) and QA testing skills.

Job Designation :  Software Technology Specialist

Qualification : Bachelors Degree

Experience : Freshers

Skill Set :

1. Sound knowledge in programming languages C, C++, Java, JavaScript,ReactJS and Python.
2. Good knowledge of SQL, MySQL and Spring Boot.
3. Good knowledge of networking concepts ans Shell scripting.
4. Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle ( SDLC ).
5. Proficiency in Software testing tools and QA methodologies.
6. Strong programming skills and debugging skills.
7. Good analytical and problem solving skills.
8. Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Job Description :

Project Planning & Setup:

1. Understand and contribute to resource plan.
2. Identify appropriate processes based on project landscape.
3. Identify gaps and advise on improvements if required.
4. Share inputs in creation of project plan.
5. Contribute to hardware/software requirement plan.
6. Understand the test strategy, evaluate the design and identify gaps in the test plans, if any.

Requirement Gathering and Analysis:

1. Analyze functional/non functional requirements and seek clarifications for better understanding of requirements.
2. Define timeline estimates based on the requirements, complexity and inhouse capability.
3. Communicate estimates to supervisor for review.
4. Provide inputs on technical feasibility of requirements.
5. Identify gaps in requirements.
6. Share additional requirements identified with supervisor.

Design:

1. Guide team in preparation of technical specification document and review the same.
2. Break down the base lines requirements into business and functional requirements.
3. Prepare high level and low level design and share with supervisor for approval.
4. Identify tools and technologies to be used in the project as well as reusable objects that could be customized for the project.
5. Share the design document with the functional team post supervisor review.

Coding:

1. Guide team in coding as per design.
2. Follow coding standards and best practices to check code quality.
3. Share developed code with supervisor for review.
4. Rework on the code based on inputs if required.
5. Perform complex integration.
6. Guide the developers in identifying, preparing and conducting unit test cases and fixing defects based on results.
7. Consolidate the test results and share with supervisor.
8. Provide periodic status update to supervisor and highlight / recommend any changes in design based on challenges faced.
9. Anticipate unreported defects and raise the same to supervisor.
10. Conduct technical troubleshooting.
11. Conduct reviews for codes created by team.

Testing:

1. Coordinate with QA team during the testing phase.
2. Address queries raised by QA within defined timelines.
3. Conduct functional / non functional testing if required.
4. Investigate critical defects and establish need for fixing.
5. Fix complex defects identified during functional / non functional testing.
6. Understand the defect impact / criticality and handle accordingly.
7. Raise issues to leads/QA.
8. Report defect status as per project standard process within agreed timelines.
9. Review defect fixes done by team guide them.
10. Fix defects identified during UAT within agreed timelines.
11. Share revised code with supervisor for review.
12. Assist team lead and project manager on estimates around defect fixes.

Deployment & Closure:

1. Conduct allocated transition tasks as per agreed timelines.
2. Address queries / provide assistance in fixing issues during warranty period.
3. Provide prompt response during production support.
4. Fix defects as and when required.
5. Review defect fixes.
6. Maintain deployment tracker.
7. Perform sanity check post deployment to ensure smooth production.
8. Share activity status with supervisor and highlight concerns if any.

Service Support & Maintenance:

1. Participate in scoping meetings and identify transition requirements for new projects.
2. Reconfirm requirements with relevant stakeholders.
3. Freeze SME calendar.
4. Provide transition activities.
5. Regularly track progress of transitions through weekly dashboards.
6. Attend user calls, and capture required information and incident details for logging.
7. Post information gathering, identify whether the incoming request is a service request or an incident.
8. Determine urgency and impact of the situation.
9. Assign appropriate priority to the incident.
10. Assign the incident to the right stakeholder for a workaround/fix.
11. Conduct analysis on various incidents that occur frequently Categorize recurring incidents as problems/known errors.
12. Provide support to resolve these errors.
13. Initiate change management process.

Knowledge Management:

1. Create specific artifacts for tasks allocated by supervisor.
2. Share artifact with supervisor for review.
3. Upload article in the knowledge management repository.
4. Seek inputs from knowledge repository to resolve problems.
5. Apply best practices/ learning during development activities.

People Management:

1. Provide support in creation of training courses and supporting artifacts on the training server such as demo, presentation.
2. Conduct training with the help of academy and mentoring with respect to domain.
3. Mentor new joiners in EAS function on an ongoing basis.
4. Provide support to various project managers in identification of training needs of their subordinates.
5. Provide inputs during goal setting and performance appraisal.

Location : Chennai, India