TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST – Cognizant

Qualification:
Science / Engineering graduate

Responsibility:
Technology Consulting:
• • Provide data to senior team members during consulting engagements.
• • Create documents (eg pre consulting deck recommendation deck etc) to be used during engagements.
• • Analyze technology landscape process tools based on project objectives.

Knowledge Management & Capability Development:
• • Conduct technical trainings/ Webinars to impart knowledge to relevant application development/ project teams.
• • Create collaterals (eg case study business value documents summary etc).
• • Post in Blogs / interviews to share expertise.
• • Gain industry standard certifications on technology and architecture consulting.
• • Contribute to knowledge repository and tools.
• • Partner with Cognizant academy to create curriculum assessments etc and conduct training.
• • Organize project level KT sessions for new team members.

Requirement gathering and Analysis:
• ” • Understand the functional and non functional requirement.
• • Collect non functional requirements (such as response time throughput numbers user load etc) through discussions with SMEs business users.

Solution Definition & Design:
• ‘ • Prepare low level design and common frameworks.
• • Identify and conduct design of complex sub components /module in collaboration with project team architects and client SME.
• • Present the detailed design documents to relevant stakeholders and seek feedback.
• • Undertake project specific Proof of Concepts activities to validate technical feasibility with guidance from the Application Architect.
• • Support performance testing and resolve deadlocks on NFRs by implementing the best optimized solution and resolve performance issues.
Project Management Support:
• • Share technical inputs from project planning perspective with Test Lead/Architect.
• • Help project managers to understand the technical risks and come up with mitigation strategies.

Business and Technical Research:
• ‘ • Understand application architecture and its criticality.
• • Analyze and assess tools (internal/external) on specific parameters.
• • Support Architect/Sr Architect in drafting recommendations based on findings of Proof Of Concept.
• • Analyze the market trends and identify new developments in existing technologies (eg methodologies frameworks accelerators etc).
• • Document these new developments (eg report white paper national/ international publications) in order to build team capabilities.

Testing Support:
• ‘ • Suggest test automation strategies using appropriate frameworks like JUnit/NUnit/Selenium as appropriate.
Process Improvements / Delivery Excellence:
• • ‘Identify avenues to improve project delivery parameters (e.
• g.
• productivity efficiency process security etc.
• ) by leveraging tools automation etc.
• • Understand various technical tools used in the project (third party as well as home grown) to improve efficiency productivity.

Project Estimation:
• ‘ • Provide support for project estimations in terms of review and validation for projects of lower complexity based on analyzing business requirements (eg component level estimation).
• • Articulate estimation methodology module level estimations for more standard projects with focus on effort estimation alone.

Audit:
• ‘ • Conduct cross project technical audits and reviews as required to check adherence to architecture design and coding best practices.
• • Perform codenizant audits for other projects as appropriate to ensure Codenizant principles are implemented.

Proposal Development:
• • Contribute to proposal development of small to medium size projects from technology/architecture perspective.

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