Sr. Associate - Projects

About this role

• Create/modify/review Master Test Strategy docuement for large engagements.
• Create/update/review Test Estimations, Project/ Sprint Planning effort.
• Leverage previous project experience/learning like Retrospection Report, Lesson Learnt for better requirement analysis.
• Review architecture & design work products by adopting White Box testing techniques to identify defects by leveraging predefined checklist and cognizant solution accelerators(if any).

• * Create test strategy (that includes release date, types of testing, scope of the project, detail 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).
• * Seek signoff on the test plan.
• Involve Project/ Sprint Planning to define the sprint goals, scrum review meetings, identify the product backlogs & provide risks/issues to scrum team for quicker remediation.
• Review & seek signoff from customer on Retrospection Report, Lesson Learnt for every release.

• Review the test scenarios and seek review as required.
• Track the root cause of the review comments and take actions to resolve them.
• Review the test cases and traceability matrix to ensure total coverage of requirements.
• Track the downtime and report the same to the client.
• Support the team/ client in conducting UAT/BUT if applicable.
• Perform sanity testing to ensure system readiness for testing.
• Upload the test cases.
• Validate readiness of the test environment for test execution.
• Prepare test lab for test execution.
• Seek sign off from the client at various stages of the cycle as required.

• Support Business Lead at client side to perform UAT.
• If requested identify the test data for UAT.
• Create Run Plan document that captures priority of test cases based on complexity.

• Posses holistic view of quality Domain, User experience, Black box, White box testing.
• Able to estimate and commit task level effort and deliver activities on time.
• Review the defects logged by team and assign it to the right owner.
• Effective technical communication by participating in architectural/design reviews.
• Speak the developer language.
• Support Quality Assurance goals.
• Adhere to all customer standards, policies and governance practices.
• Comprehensive understanding of full development lifecycle and is actively involved in all phases.
• * Involvement with development teams, architects early in the project life cycle to identify the dependencies on architecture design, low level design components & coding standards, test data dependencies, environment dependencies etc.

• Design & implement bestinclass automation framework based on AUT.
• Review the test results and clarify doubts/query raised by team during execution.
• Prepare Test summary Report and share the same for review/ Review the test results/test reports submitted by the test analyst.
• Capture lessons learnt and the best practices adopted.
• Periodically generate metrics based on the audience.
• Review metrics to identify areas for process optimization.
• Create robust test automation scripts.
• Web Services Design the Web Services testing framework.
• DevOps Define, deploy & monitoring metrics configuration.
• Has expert knowledge of multithreading & other QE tools & technology.
• * Discussion with the development, release & deployment team stakeholders to make gono go decision based on test results and test closure summary report.
• * Possess specialist knowlege on Continous integration/deployment & delivery using industry best tools & technologies.
• * 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.

• Participate in quality, design decisions for automations, stability, usability & scalability of application under test.
• Code quality , coverage & productivity analysis to ensure all areas of program are exercised by test suites.

• * Organize the boot camp for new entrants.
• 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.

• * Mentor/coach the team to create knowledge artefacts (eg collaterals, reusable assets) to drive knowledge management.
• * 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.
• * Create condusive environment for team members to innovate & share ideas.

• Review the daily deliverables and share it with the stakeholders appropriately.
• Create and share weekly status reports and daily status reports with the team/ relevant stakeholders.
• Facilitate calls between onsite and offshore teams to discuss the project status.
• Identify resources based on the estimation and required skill set.
• (Only For Maintenance/Enhancements Project).
• Create estimation for enhancements based on the understanding of requirement.
• Perform POCs on the tools (eg accelerators, performance enhancers ) if required.
• Coordinate with the release manager to keep abreast with the various activities in the test environment (eg build schedule) and to ensure the right components move to the production.

• Automation
• .Net Core
• Selenium