Description
Systems Consultant

Qualification:
Engineering graduate (Masters Degree optional)
Responsibility:

Requirements Gathering and Analysis:

• Participate and contribute to the various brain storming sessions involved right from the proposal stage to understand the system requirements and the scope of the project.

• Derive Product Requirements Specification from Voice Of Customer & Voice Of Business.

• Dissect the complete system in to sub systems and gather necessary message schemas and understand various input / output interface requirements.

• List down the list of peripherals involved as part of sub systems and bringout the communication channels involved.

Resource/ Efforts Estimation and Monitoring:

• Develop technical resourcing plan for people resourcing and other infrastructure needs for technical solutions for projects or RFPs etc.

• Understand how the estimation (effort size etc) is done at sub system / task level for the work package or RFP.

• Prepare WBS or any other estimation methods and arrive at effort estimation & scheduling.

• Keep a close track on any changes to Requirements and impact to cost and schedule.

• Identificaton of risks at every logical stage of the project.

• this is required from C20 & Product Engineering perspective.

System Design:

• As is Study of existing system for any Re Engineering / Enhancement projects.

• Prepare System / Sub System design related technical specifications.

• identify areas that are prone to requiremments change and work on the probable design for flexibility.

• Perform Design reviews both system and sub system level.

• Shall provide design improvements keeping the interfaces / IO limitations that would hamper the project progress.

• Raise technical queries and seek information / resolution within the team or try to liase with other technical forums that are available.

• Provide required support to develop the proof of concept.

• Create detailed design.

• provide input to the Project Manager / Tech Lead for revision of the project plan from a technical perspective or creating of plan for sub modules of the project.

• Conceive POCs / Demos to provide confidence to customer and elucidite the same during initial stages of talks with the customer and provide support in development of proof of concept as designed by Designer / Solution Architect.

• initiate development environment setup.

• Provide demo to customer for early feedback.

• create quality check points for all deliverables.

• create design documents with the support of the architects for the assigned scope.

Testing & Defect Management:

• Strategizing the test setup / environment.

• Scoping in or out for various sub system level testing.

• Analysing the defects and provide technical summary to the customer interfaces or other stake holders.

• Taking care of technical contentions and resolve issues by isolating the stresms (between Software Hardware Firmware).

• Support all upstream and downstream systems for integration and connectivity testing.

• Support System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

• Participate in defect triage meetings.

• conduct RCA for defects identified.

• rework on the System / Sub system level dissection based on review comments defects raised in unit testing peer testing performance testing SIT UAT testing or any other relevant testing phases.

Innovation & Process Improvements / Adherence:

• Initiate / Conduct / Participate in innovation fairs / themes / sessions to generate ideas for technological improvements and come up with POCs for customer pain points.

• Implement process improvements to reduce manual intervention (eg automation).

• provide support for process audit activities.

• Generate ideas to bring about any form of value add and share the same with Tech Lead.

• adhere to process and tools (usage of cognizant 20.

• awareness of quality management system IDE etc).

Knowledge Management:

• Contribute towards updating knowledge assets user manual Technical brochures Business Development decks Service Offerings.

• Handling RFI / RFP / RFQs.

• Conduct knowledge transfer sessions for new hires in the project team.

• conduct training through academy (if approved).

• Guide and mentor team members from a technical perspective to ensure quality improvement.

• contribute to / search / reuse all types of assets from repository.

People management:

• Engage with the team.

• resolve / address conflict within the team.

• provide coaching to team members (eg coaching and mentoring of ELTs) and develop their capability.

• Conduct internal trainings for developers within team.

Must Have Skills

• CAN bus

Qualifications
Technical Skills
SNo Primary Skill Proficiency Level * Rqrd./Dsrd. 1 CAN bus PL1 Required

* Proficiency Legends
Proficiency Level Generic Reference PL1 The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels. PL2 The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects. PL3 The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects. PL4 The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.