Cognizant Fresher hiring for 2025 Engineering graduates (GenC Next, GenC Pro & GenC)

About Company

At Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH), we help companies get and stay ahead in a fast-changing world. Through wave after wave of disruptive technological change, Cognizant has provided clients with the insight, skills, and services they need to apply technology to stay relevant to their customers and help improve everyday life for people around the world. We deliver industry-specific business outcomes to companies through a unique combination of industry expertise and technological insight - leveraging one of the world's largest data and analytics practices and a depth of digital engineering that few companies can match.

We believe our work matters and we are proud to have helped speed up the development of vaccines, make the Internet and Artificial Intelligence safer, accelerate the response time for first responders to natural disasters, and bolster the world's food supply through cleaner oceans. As Cognizant celebrate 30^th year of technology expertise, leadership and innovation, we employ ~340,000 people across 35 countries and act as the IT services provider for thousands of companies across 20 different industries including banking and financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and retail.

 

GenC - Job description

• Understand business requirements, raise clarifications, create documents
• Develop, maintain, test, debug and deploy code as per the requirement specifications
• Understand the data requirements and develop test scenarios
• Understand the Agile application development environment, deliverables due and follow the SDLC
• Create low level design for components
• Identify and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines. Proactively address issues and work on mitigating points of failure
• Take ownership to deliver on goals specified in a timely and efficient manner
• Participate as a member of project team in meetings and technical sessions to develop reliable, cost effective and high-quality solutions
• Continuously upskill/reskill and cross skill to scale up to new technologies
• Possess excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

Eligibility criteria

• 2025 batch of specific B.E / B.Tech / M.E / M. Tech  are eligible to apply (Streams such as Leather technology, Food technology, Fashion technology, etc. are excluded).
• Students should possess consistent academic record with minimum 60% in X, XII, Diploma, UG & PG (rounding off 59.9% is not allowed)
• At the time of joining, all recruits need to have a minimum 60% aggregate in the pursuing degree with no standing arrears
• Appropriate CGPA to % conversion to be considered as per university norms
• Students with standing arrears are NOT eligible.
• Flexibility to work from any Cognizant office location in a given shift timing and technology is mandatory.
• Open to Indian nationals / OCIs who are currently residing in India.
• Students will get the communications only to the registered mail ID in Superset. It must be their personal mail ID and shall be considered as the primary email ID. This email ID should not be changed at any point during hiring process or until Full Time Employment (FTE) onboarding.

Mandatory documents for registration

• Resume attached with latest passport size photograph.
• Industry accredited certificate if available to be uploaded mandatorily.

Mandatory documents for interview

• All academic documents including the college ID card (if available), school / college, UG and PG marksheets, provisional/ degree certificate.

Mandatory documents for onboarding

• PAN card. It is a mandatory requirement for onboarding. Please ensure that your last name, father's name, and other details are accurate. Please note that background verification will fail if the last name is not updated or if the PAN card name does not match the registered name.
• Voter Id card / Passport will be mandatory to verify citizenship.

GenC Next 

Students should be technically and academically proficient, with advanced programming, matured coding skills and full stack abilities with Industry accredited certificate/s in one or more: Java, C#, Web technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript), Python, Oracle, SQL/PLSQL, Cloud (AWS, Azure and GCP),Data Structures and Algorithms, Object Oriented Programming, Maven, Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring REST, Data Structures and Algorithms, Object Oriented Programming, Advanced Python, Advanced Cloud Fundamentals, ASP .Net Core, SQL Server,  Entity framework Core, ASP .Net Core Web API. 

GenC Pro

Students should be technically proficient with expertise in enterprise platforms/products/specific technologies, such as Cybersecurity, Oracle, Salesforce, Mulesoft, Pega, SAP ABAP, SAP Basis and ServiceNow with Industry accredited certificate.

Note: All shortlisted candidates will be notified on the hiring category for interview. Final decision on candidate screening, eligibility for assessments, interview and final selection will be at the sole discretion of Cognizant.