Software Engineer Associate Jobs in Cognizant - Chennai

Responsibilities:

Product Requirements:

• Understand the functional/ non functional requirements gathered from the stakeholders (Architect Product Manager Product Lead Client) for enhancement.

• Participate in cross functional meetings to review Product Marketing Requirements and Functional Requirements and create clarification list to resolve ambiguities.

• Conduct feasibility study to understand the impact of the requirements on the existing product.

• Provide inputs to the development lead on the estimations.

• Understand new / complex product requirements (functional and non functional).

• Create a low level design document (which captures class level diagram and attributes mapped to the class and sequence diagram) based on the understanding of high level design.

• Seek review inputs from the Architect and incorporate the same.

Product Design and Development:

• Create POCs to identify the feasibility of new technologies/ products and share the findings with the architecture team for new products.

• Provide strategic technical direction for product research design analysis testing process improvement and complex troubleshooting for critical and large projects.

• Create high level software design (HLSD) documents under the guidance of Architects.

• Establish design standards and deliver solutions which meets product's functional and non functional requirements.

• Provide technical expertise to resolve challenging programming and design problems.

• Participate in architecture / code reviews and eliminate implementation problems early in development cycle.

• Create/ review of low level design document for product enhancement.

• Seek review inputs from the product lead.

• Build code as per the design document if required.

• Provide technical guidance to the team to resolve complex technical issues.

• Create requirement traceability matrix and review test cases coding standards testing defects.

• Identify ways to improve or reduce the defects.

• Support the client in user acceptance testing if required.

Product Testing:

• Review Test Cases / Test Plan.

• Conduct Integration testing and resolve defects/bugs during QA Testing Alpha Release Beta Release Post Release patches.

Product Training and Documentation:

• Provide inputs to technical publications and review documentation of key features as warranted.

Product Sign Offs:

• Resolve existing issues.

• Gather users feedback from the client and identify ways to enhance the usability.

Project Management:

• Provide inputs on the status of the module development to the development lead.

People Management:

• Mentor Software Engineers and conduct one on one sessions to coach team members.

• Set goals for team members and monitor performance.

• Conduct performance appraisal for team members.