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piyush richhariya Business Analyst, CSC
 
piyush richhariya's Profile
piyush richhariya
Business Analyst, CSC
Computer Sciences (CSC)
confidential
confidential
new york, India
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Professional summary
piyush richhariya's Experience
Current :

Business Analyst, Computer Sciences (CSC)

IT Products

Working from 2007

Brief summary :

My Role involves: Analysis of business/testing requirements,planning the testing, coordinating with the offshore and the client.Being part of projects which involve multi vendor environment , i am involved in coordinating between different teams(vendors) and in understanding/handling various applications involved.

Previous :

Business Analyst, BeyondKey Systems Pvt

Worked from 2005 to 2011

Brief summary :

Strong abilities in the area of Life Insurance, Health Insurance, Employee Disability Benefits. Skilled in analyzing business practices and define and document optimal procedures and practices. Strong analytical and organizational skills and a keen client need assessment aptitude. Effective communicator with good relationship building and interpersonal skills. Active contributor for knowledge management initiatives. Competent in streamlining and improving existing systems / processes, envisioning new methodologies, future trends and driving development, direction and accomplishment. ousing, Application Testing Total Experience (October 2005 - Till date)(6 Years) Senior- Business Analyst (Sep 2010- Till date) Total Client Site Experience (USA) (2 Years) Employee of BeyondKey Systems Pvt. Ltd., Client Location-(First Rehabilitation Life Insurance Company of America, Great Neck, NY) Responsibilities Customer interaction and total Onsite coordination. Managing the complete project delivery to the customer. Liaising with FRL users/managers to elicit and understand business user requirements. Getting actively involved in estimation activities using appropriate estimation tools in order to provide high level effort estimation to management for development projects. Proposing alternative solutions, preparing functional design documents, and ensuring that solutions are implemented in a timely and effective manner. Coordinating between Offshore Team and the Client. Making my offshore team understand the requirements, processes and techniques required to complete the project. Preparing the Test plans, conducting walkthrough with the Client, Receiving Signoffs and sending Test Execution Notes to the Client with Defect Reports other details. Actively managing queries from business users and providing domain training to new joiners and team members on a need basis. Providing primary domain consultancy support to a team comprising of around 12 technical and test analysts. Experience / Projects Web Site Development and Management for FRL : Complete website content and data management, as per the regulatory compliances of business , product portfolios and all applicable Business Functionalities. Products: DBL , Discount Cards, Dental and Vision Coverage, Life Insurance. Functionalities: Quote, Buy, Reprint, Rewrite, Compare Plans. Recognized as good networker and an efficient coordinator between different vendors, Client and the offshore team. Complete Cycle of `IVR and `Online Payments for Client, coordination between multiple vendors. Senior- Business Analyst (Jul 2007- Sep 2010) Employee of CSC India, Client Location-(Allstate Financial Technologies, Northbrook, IL) Responsibilities Customer interaction and Handling Managing the complete project delivery to the customer (Testing) Liaising with AFT managers to elicit and understand business user requirements. Getting actively involved in estimation activities using appropriate estimation tools in order to provide high level effort estimation to management for development projects. Proposing alternative solutions, preparing functional design documents, and ensuring that solutions are implemented in a timely and effective manner. Coordinating between Offshore Team and the Client. Making my team understand the requirements,processes and techniques required to complete the project. Preparing the Test plans,conducting walkthrough with the Client,Receiving Signoffs and sending Test Execution Notes to the Client with Defect Reports other details. Actively managing queries from business users and providing domain training to new joiners and team members on a need basis. Providing primary domain consultancy support to a team comprising of around 25 technical and test analysts. Coordinating with different teams(Vendors) for E2E testing of different assignments,and supporting them with the required data and the verification part. Experience / Projects Across Area Of Responsibility : Short Down Payments, ACORD pending cases, Data Quality System, Account Receivable Conversion project,Term Conversion Project Products: EIUL and VUL product Testing. Functionalities: Loans ,Grace and Correspondence Testing. Recognized as good networker and an efficient coordinator between different vendors,Client and the offshore team. Module Lead - IT (Apr 2006 - Jul 2007) Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance, Yerwada, Pune Responsibilities Understanding the requirements. Discussions and Meetings with the leads of different teams. Analysing the feasibility of the proposed changes and estimate the effort and time required to implement the same. Helping developers by preparing Business specifications and explaining the requirements. Participating in the development. Technical representation and interactions with other teams. Data warehouse maintenance and DSS Reporting. Experience / Projects Corporate Agents Commission Process Creation Of Various MIS Reports for DSS Like: Top Stms Reports, Collection Marketing Report for SCB Bank, and other reports to support and enable various competitions of ICCs And Stms to motivate the Sales Force . Implement the K click Report Suite. Trainee Executive - IT (Oct 2005 - Mar 2006) Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance ,Yerwada, Pune Responsibilities Building And Using Data Warehouse A Data Repository to query and get information from,to support MIS and DSS. Experience / Projects Technologies : Data Warehousing, Pl/Sql . Database : Oracle 9i. Tools-Used :Oracle Warehouse Builder,Oracle Discoverer(Administrator and Desktop),Toad.

 
 
 
 
piyush's communities
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piyush's contributions
1.Knowledge about the application product,how is it intended to be used,by whom,at what frequency,upto what load etc..(Answers to these Depends on the customer). 2.Knowledge about data warehousing concepts(better if he has worked as a data base...
I believe that 'A developer becomes better analyst',and i myself have done the same. I started my carer as a Developer in an insurance company,learned the domain,took a few insurance certifications and have converted my self to a Business Analyst Life...
 
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