Abhishek Thakur

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Senior Project Manager Cognizant Tech. @ Cognizant
teaneck, new jersey, united states
Abhishek Thakur's Location
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, Canada
About Abhishek Thakur

• A delivery focused project manager with extensive experience in delivering business change while leading large complex program of works involving multiple cross functional teams.• Extensive experience in managing cross-functional projects with a passion for solving problems from Software Engineering, management to driving execution.• Seasoned in working with stakeholders, creative teams, business to understand project scope and requirements and bridge the non-technical to technical discussions and vice versa.• Performing analysis, design, driving development, customizations and implementation of software applications within health care and banking domain.• Managing project risks to mitigate impact to timeline, dependencies, and critical path deliverables and work with team and stakeholders to remove impediments.• Experience in various software development methodologies like Scrum, Waterfall and Incremental. A certified SAFe. 5 Scrum Master.• Capable of leading and motivating global multi-cultural and virtual teams through all project development lifecycle stages.• Strong database skills, Object Oriented Programming and Software development knowledge.• Executed complex software projects for Healthcare Organizations for compliance with Government Health Care Reforms like CMS regulations and HIPAA.• Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner and a team player with focus on Customer’s positive experience.• Aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage.

Abhishek Thakur's Current Company Details
Cognizant

Cognizant

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Senior Project Manager Cognizant Tech.
teaneck, new jersey, united states
Website:
cognizant.com
Employees:
278214
Abhishek Thakur Work Experience Details
  • Cognizant
    It Project Manager Product Consultant
    Cognizant Jun 2015 - Present
    Denver, Colorado
    Currently working as technical project manager and product consultant for Trizetto Cognizant clients and my current roles and responsibilities include:• Work with the Business users including Business leads, client Project Managers, Architects and Business analyst to get the requirements drafted which are sufficient to write all technical details in further development process.• Translate customer requirements into formal functional design, technical requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.• Responsible for leading the development team in delivering solutions to our business partners in the custom software solutions area, deliver new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements.• Support all phases of the implementation of assigned projects from original concept through project closure activities and implementation warranty.• Utilize in-depth knowledge of software developed to integrate enterprise systems and other leading-edge products and technology in conjunction with industry and business skills to deliver solutions to customers.• Provide day to day direction to the development team and regular project status to the stakeholders utilizing SDLC.•Establish Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitor and audit to ensure team meets quality goals.• Frequently look into opportunities for developing new products that can enhance customer’s experience or automate business problems to save cost and effort.• As a manager I am responsible for work assignments to resources in team, evaluate their performance regularly and help in appraisal process.
  • Syntel
    Senior Project Lead
    Syntel Nov 2014 - May 2015
    Denver Colorado
    Worked as Senior Project Lead and Product Consultant.Worked on hosted batch environment for health care products and was responsible for developing custom software solution, doing estimations, analysis, design, assisting development, establishing testing and implementation of customized software solutions for new implementations and updates.Responsible for leading the development team in delivering solution to business partners in the custom software solutions and integrating large healthcare software systems.Delivered new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements around healthcare business.Worked with onshore Business users including the Business leads, Project Managers, Architects and Business Analyst to get the requirements drafted which were sufficient to write all technical details in further development process.Translate customer requirements into formal technical requirements and design documents, established specific solutions, and lead the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.Responsible for effective communication between the onshore project team and the business. Provide day to day direction to the development team and regular project status to stake holders.Establish Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitor and audit to ensure team meets quality goals.
  • Unitedhealth Care
    Technical Lead
    Unitedhealth Care Nov 2013 - Nov 2014
    Phoenix, Arizona
    As a technical lead I was responsible for estimations, analysis, design, assisting development, testing and implementation of customized software solutions for new implementations and upgrades for our UHG US customers like state of Maryland, Texas and Nebraska for Federal health care programs.• Responsible for leading the development team in delivering solution to our business partners in the Custom software solutions area.• Deliver new and complex high-quality software solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements as per new UHG business.• Work with the onshore Business users including the Business leads, Project Managers and Business Analyst to get the requirements drafted which were sufficient to write all technical details in further development process by development teams onshore and offshore.• Translate customer requirements into formal technical requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.• Supporting ICD 10 and HIPAA 5010 projects / enhancements on the several projects across multiple teams like EDI, Mainframe and Custom code development teams.• Research on other solutions implemented across other projects within the organization and other industry standard solutions and suggesting the best possible implementations.• Provide 60 days post deployment warranty to all the implementations.• Responsible for effective communication between the onshore project team, offshore project teams and the business.• Defect tracking for business and IT team on ALM.• Planning trainings for new joiners for developing competency at UHG.Environment: Facets 4.41, Facets 4.71, C# Dot net, Sybase 12.5, Sybase 15.0Team Size : 15 to 20
  • United Health Group
    System Analyst Facets
    United Health Group Sep 2009 - Nov 2013
    As a technical lead I was responsible for estimations, analysis, design, assisting development, testing and implementation of customized software solutions for new implementations and upgrades for our UHG US customers like state of Maryland, Texas and Nebraska for Federal health care programs.Responsible for leading the development team in delivering solution to our business partners in the Custom software solutions area.Deliver new and complex high-quality software solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements as per new UHG business.Work with the onshore Business users including the Business leads, Project Managers and Business Analyst to get the requirements drafted which were sufficient to write all technical details in further development process by development teams onshore and offshore.Translate customer requirements into formal technical requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.Supporting ICD 10 and HIPAA 5010 projects / enhancements on the several projects across multiple teams like EDI, Mainframe and Custom code development teams.Research on other solutions implemented across other projects within the organization and other industry standard solutions and suggesting the best possible implementations.Provide 60 days post deployment warranty to all the implementations.Responsible for effective communication between the onshore project team, offshore project teams and the business.Defect tracking for business and IT team on ALM.Planning trainings for new joiners for developing competency at UHG.
  • Niit Technologies Limited
    Software Engineer
    Niit Technologies Limited Jan 2007 - Sep 2009
    As a member of the development team I was involved as an application developer in the project. My role was to analyze the and create requirement specifications, technical design documents and implement the new requirements and changes through out the applications, creating new applications as per requirements, creating Unit Test cases and execution and bug fixing as reported by the testing team. Some applications were part of ETL processes, developed these single handedly for data loading purposes which were totally XML configurable.My role also included gaining business understanding of the project and I was also involved as the Business Analyst in certain applications, Insurance Domain. The Project: Worked on multiple projects from Banking and Insurance domain in various technologies. Also gained knowledge on Banking and Insurance domain including Title insurance.Technologies used: • ASP.Net,VB.Net, C#.Net, Visual Basic 6.0, iApprove 3.5 and Integrify 4.0• XML• SQL Server 2005• MS Access• Sybase 12.5 and Sybase 15.0

Abhishek Thakur Education Details

  • Institute Of Information Technology And Management
    Institute Of Information Technology And Management
    C, C++, Java, Software Engineering, Computer Architecture, Shell Scripting, Sql, Oracle, Networking
  • Indian Institute Of Information Technology And Management
    Indian Institute Of Information Technology And Management
    C, C++, Sql, Linux, Unix, Software Engineering, Physics, Data Mining

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Abhishek Thakur attended Institute Of Information Technology And Management, Indian Institute Of Information Technology And Management.

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