Manager - Projects

4 weeks ago

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Cognizant Technology Solutions Full time

Project Manager

Qualification:

Bachelors in science , engineering or equivalent

Responsibility:

Project Planning and Setup:

  • Understand project scope.
  • Based on the analysis of the type of the project provide inputs on project methodology to senior stakeholders (Project Manager / Architects etc).
  • Consolidate inputs from developers and collectively provide inputs on activities/ tasks, task level estimates, schedule, dependencies, risks etc.
  • Consolidate inputs from developers and collectively provide inputs to testing strategy, configuration, deployment, hardware/software requirement etc.
  • Analyze in detail resources required for every phase, conduct estimation of time utilization of different resources and activities, prepare resource and development plan or provide inputs and review with PM.
  • Participate in KT sessions conducted by customer/ other business teams.

Requirement Understanding and Analysis:

  • Along with the Business Analyst, gather requirements (functional and nonfunctional) from customer.
  • Analyze requirements for feasibility with regards to testing and implementation.
  • Provide inputs for requirements prioritization.
  • Debrief team on the requirements gathered and seek feedback.
  • Participate in client calls and seek clarifications if any.
  • Create and maintain requirements traceability matrix along with BA.
  • Provide inputs during creation of operational concepts and scenarios.
  • Work with administrators to setup security requirements.

Design:

  • Understand various functional and non functional requirements and HLD in order to provide inputs to create LLD and review.
  • Recommend make/ buy or alternate solutions.
  • Provide inputs in designing end to end solution from a technical perspective.
  • Create code development checklist.
  • Prepare UI specifications / mock ups for reports / dashboards and provide guidance to team members/ designers for creating data mapping documents or unit documents for ETL & BI.
  • Provide inputs to data modeling based on the project understanding.
  • Walkthrough the design along with PM to the customer and coordinate to seek signoff on design and other artifacts.

Coding:

  • Guide team in coding as per design.
  • Define the Development framework, reusable templates based on the organization repository and past experience.
  • Allocate modules to developers for coding.
  • Provide inputs for setting up development environment.
  • Provide guidance to developers and set standards.
  • Review pseudo codes written by developers and provide a go ahead for code development.
  • Review final codes written by developers on adherence to standards/functionality and approve for testing.
  • Monitor code merge to build environment and provide consolidated feedback to design.

Testing Management:

  • Provide inputs to testing strategy / approach at a high level.
  • Review test cases written by team.
  • In case of small projects, review/ guide for SIT and other testing.
  • Provide support for development of unit/ integration test cases as required.
  • Check if peer review is completed at each step of test execution.
  • Monitor defects raised and closed.
  • Conduct root cause analysis to avoid repetition of defects.
  • Follow up with team assigned for rework on code defects and close the same.
  • Attend QA audits as and when required.

Deployment:

  • Setup instructions.
  • Understand release and deployment environment and provide inputs for release/deployments plan.
  • Resolve issues that arise during project deployment/ closure.
  • Check that all action items mentioned in the deployment checklist have been completed.
  • Monitor and review smoke testing, mock runs.

Project Execution Monitoring & closure (Support to Project Management activities):

  • Provide status inputs to the project manager.
  • Support Project Manager in creating a weekly status report including tasks achieved in the week and plan for next week.
  • Provide guidance to team through SDLC.
  • Track metrics wrt plan and monitor the same.
  • Collect and present metrics (utilization, time spent on each activity / team etc) to the Project Manager.
  • In case of change in the project, support in creating a first level impact analysis.
  • Support project manager in gathering all documents required for audits and maintain them regularly.

Service Support and Maintenance:

  • Create transition plan.
  • provide transition walkthrough to the maintenance team.

Stakeholder Management:

  • Understand internal stakeholders (Account Manager, Project Managers etc) and client expectations.
  • Follow through on commitments, achieve timely resolution of issues.

Knowledge Management:

  • Provide guidance to team members to maintain all documentation related to project.
  • Create/ guide creation of knowledge articles on the problem, workaround solutions, best practices, new methodology implemented, retrospection report etc.
  • Monitor and report the usage of knowledge articles.

People Management:

  • Provide assistance in selection of representative employee groups for training.
  • Conduct training or knowledge sharing sessions.
  • Mentor team members in project teams with respect to product and domain skills on projects.
  • Conduct technical, face to face interviews.
  • Conduct / support managers in conducting appraisals for team members and share final ratings with the relevant stakeholders.
  • Coordinate with the project/program manager in understanding how the employee can better contribute to the project, seek feedback and address concerns.

Sales Support:

  • Understand RFP.
  • Participate in ongoing calls with the vertical team members.
  • Provide references.
  • Create relevant parts of the proposal and identify the case studies to be included.
  • Provide time and resource estimates based on technical complexity and type of work done earlier.
  • List out the challenges, dependencies, assumptions and timelines required for the project under guidance.
  • Provide inputs on technology preference based on the project requirements.
  • Review with the applicable vertical teams and incorporate their feedback.

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