Praphulla Chourey Email & Phone Number

Mumbai, Mh, In

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mumbai

Pune, Maharashtra, India

As development lead I am responsible for end to end delivery of entire team working on application development using Microsoft Azure platform. My responsibility lies in Estimation of work, Plan team work, define process for incoming work, implement practice that quality is ensured. As mentor for the team I oversee their work and help them technically as well as in following the standards and processes. I am involved during technical discussion with client and drive Application architecture related decisions.

Mumbai Area, India

Leading team located at multiple locations. My responsibilities spread across all aspect of maintenance and supporting 5 applications which all are in different legacy technology. With that mentoring and working with team technically and interviewing candidates, conducting trainings for new joiner, vendor management, overlook staffing, release and deployment support, weekly, monthly and other governance reports and shift assignments. Identified automation opportunities in day to day work and initiated the process using RPG. Initiated continuous improvement process within team and implemented 6 ideas via automation and user training.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area, Usa

For new project, on request from Client visited their office at different location to understand and prepare blue print for infrastructure upgrade and rearchitect the applications. Worked with different vendors to identify the software and hardware components for vendor managed application and prepare future architecture. Study and documented functional and technical details for the applications to help Client procurement team to offer application support to vendors.

Hartford, Connecticut Area, Usa

Rearchitected the Infrastructure and simplified the ETL process for further improvement. Transitioned deployment for 5 applications from different vendor and Participated in Internal and External Audits. Application maintenance and support, Problem management, prioritization, Capacity planning and train as well as guide resources at offshore. Primarily focus on Client and vendor relationship management and scope for continuous improvement. Onshore Lead Business Analyst Feb - 2012 to March - 2017Requirement elicitation, scoping and prioritization, impact analysis, effort estimation, managing vendor, customer and stakeholder relationships and facilitate communication among teams. Improvised the company’s documentation process to improve the overall quality of project deliverable. Initiated various process changes including implementing the use of documentation templates, adapting improved methodologies to streamline operations.

Hartford, Connecticut, Usa

Lead Business AnalystLead teams in the development of the company’s Claim Processing application projects focusing on requirement elicitation, scoping and prioritization, impact analysis, effort estimation, managing vendor, customer and stakeholder relationships and facilitate communication among teams. Supervise the work of 10 staff members and help them with the challenges faced during project implementation. Facilitated and helped users in QA and User acceptance testing. Key Accomplishments:Improvised the company’s documentation process to improve the overall quality of project deliverable.Initiated various process changes including implementing the use of documentation templates, adapting improved methodologies to streamline operations.Focused on project planning and requirement gathering practices to achieve improvements in financial and operational efficiency and higher client’s satisfaction.Mentored systems engineering staff to focus more on process improvements and automations to achieve satisfactory results and improved turnaround time.Selected Projects:APD Vendor replacementFacilitate communications with client and vendor to conduct detailed analysis of the vendors IT system and prepare project plans to implement the Interface with new vendor system. Requirement elicitation and documentation to provide teams with comprehensive directives to accurately implement the required changes. Prepared the document for Business to understand the updated process where new vendor is active for upcoming assignments and old vendor is available only for historical assignments. Validate implemented functionalities to match the needs of each system and according to the need of business processes to implement each new feature. Coordinated with teams to replace the vendor products smoothly with minimal interruption to business operations.

Mumbai Area, India

Coordinated activities throughout the lifecycle of software product development. Prepare technical design and help developer during implementation. Review and maintain project artifacts from audit perspective.

Mumbai, India

Design and develop enhancement request from Business in rule based system implemented inhouse for Claims intake. Perform peer review, defect triaging and providing fix, UAT coordination and release deployment support.

Master Of Computer Applications (Mca), Computer Programming

Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

Bachelor'S Degree, Electronics

Completed the Graduate Degree