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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Participate in ongoing calls with the vertical team members.
- 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.
Must Have Skills
Good To Have Skills
Employee Status : Full Time Employee
Shift : Day Job
Travel : No