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PRAVALI GURRALA

Bellevue,WA

Summary

Holds master's degree in computer information systems and has served as requirements analyst at CVS Health, aiming to advance in the business analysis field after completing a second master's in project management at Cumberlands University.

Overview

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Certification
2027
2027
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
03.2021 - Current

- Delivered accurate migration support for employer pharmacy benefit plans by aligning RxClaim configurations with MyPBM requirements.

- Produced requirements documentation and facilitated implementation discussions to enable development teams to address plan rules, workflow changes, and functional updates.

- Validated migrated plans in UAT, analyzed loading errors, refined requirements, and confirmed fixes resolved configuration issues across end-to-end plan migration lifecycle.

  • Conduct requirement-gathering sessions with managers and business stakeholders to understand plan configurations, business rules, and expected functionality.
  • Analyzed existing plan configurations in RxClaim and translated business requirements into functional requirements for the development team.
  • Document requirements, business rules, workflows, and expected system behavior for developers and testing teams.
  • Work closely with developers throughout the implementation process to clarify requirements, answer questions, and validate that the solution meets the business needs.
  • Assisted in the plan extraction and migration process by extracting plan-related data using clinical tools and transferring files to the UAT environment through FileZilla.
  • Coordinate the loading of plan data into the myPBM UAT environment and monitor the results.
  • Perform functional testing and validation in UAT to verify that migrated plans are configured correctly and function according to the documented requirements.
  • Analyze validation and migration errors generated during the plan-loading process, identify the underlying business or configuration issue, and determine the required changes.
  • Create or refine requirements based on validation errors and work with developers to implement fixes.
  • Retest the updated functionality in UAT and validate that the issues have been resolved successfully.
  • Supported migration lifecycle from requirement gathering to UAT testing, ensuring seamless transition through documentation, development, plan extraction, data loading, validation, defect analysis, and fixes.

Overall, my role serves as a bridge between the business, plan configuration, and development teams, ensuring that employer-specific pharmacy benefit plans are accurately understood, migrated, configured, and validated in myPBM.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of Houston Clear-Lake
  • Assisted Dr. Khondker Hasan in teaching advanced java and data structures courses, supporting student learning and engagement.
  • Evaluated java assignments and provided programming support to graduate and undergraduate students, enhancing their understanding of course material.
  • Assisted University of Houston Clear Lake faculty with classroom instruction and student support.
  • Graded assignments using course rubrics and instructor guidelines.
  • Led discussion sessions and reviewed lesson material with students.

Education

Master of Science - Project Management

University of The Cumberlands
Williamsburg, KY
08-2025

Master's - Computer Information System

The University of Houston Clear-Lake
12-2020

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

JB Institute of Engineering and Technology
Hyderabad, India
05-2017

Skills

  • Programming Languages : Python
  • Requirements gathering
  • UAT testing
  • Databases : SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB, GIT
  • RxClaim configuration
  • Requirements analysis

Certification

Full stack java developer certificate: angular and spring boot., The complete web developer certificate from Udemy (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React Js, Node Js).

ACADEMIC PROJECTS:

  • Customizable Registry, UHCL, TX (Angular/ LiuzLab/Mock registry /MDS Patient Registry) August 2020, Created a User-friendly application that allow user to enter data as input fields by building the dynamic forms using the angular services., Nodejs is used for backend side., It is a cloud-based approach to meet the health portability and accountability act requirements.
  • Design of Database Engine (Java, MySQL) January 2020, Developed a rudimentary database engine using Java supporting DDL, DML, VDL of DBMS., Created an object-oriented design that reads a text file and optimized the query processing and retrieval by building the index using the data structure B+ tree indexing.
  • Health Center Management System, UHCL, TX August 2019, Implemented web application using HTML, CSS as front end and PHP as Server side and MYSQL as database., Developed relational model, followed normalization, created DB tables. Created Primary and Secondary Indexes on the tables for efficient retrieval of records.
  • Implementation of Algorithms (Java) January 2019, Implemented data structures (Stack, Queue, LinkedList, Trees), searching & sorting techniques, traversals of Trees & Graphs as part of academic projects.
  • Fast Detection of Transformed Data leaks January 2017, Data leaks are detected while transforming the data by using sequence alignment algorithm. Encryption and decryption of data is done in order to provide the security., We implement a parallelized version of our algorithms in graphics processing unit that achieves high analysis throughput. We demonstrate the high multithreading scalability of our data leak detection method required by a sizable organization.

Timeline

Software Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services
03.2021 - Current

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of Houston Clear-Lake

Master of Science - Project Management

University of The Cumberlands

Master's - Computer Information System

The University of Houston Clear-Lake

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

JB Institute of Engineering and Technology
PRAVALI GURRALA