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Praveen Kumar K

Plano,TX

Summary

Experienced Business Analyst with Over 5+ years of professional experience as a Business Analyst with experience in Business Analysis, Business Modeling and Design, Requirements Management and PRPC implementation in the Health Insurance Claims, Financial, and Supply Chain Logistics industries. Expertise working in Pega SCRUM (Agile), Pega SmartBPM, Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Certified Pega Business Architect v8.8

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Business Analyst

Charter Communnications
09.2023 - Current
  • Responsible for analyzing business processes with Business SME’s, identify automation opportunities, define RPA value proposition, reengineer process to improve automation potential and recommend RPA approach/strategy across different applications like payroll, customer service and accounting.
  • Identifying opportunities for RPA using Opportunity Assessment tool across different service lines of Financial Service Center.
  • Documenting As Is and To Be artifacts for the RPA and Pega.
  • Designing automation case flow for use case as a part of COE for the business processes identified for RPA.
  • Working with business stakeholders to understand the productivity impact of the automation and business priority for RPA process with process Assessment, ROI Assessment, feasibility, and complexity analysis.
  • Support proof-of-concept automation solutions to demonstrate the viability of automation in client environments.
  • Document the automation flow process in functional specification document and elaborate to epics, features, and user stories.
  • Support Cloud team to capture the requirements with technical specifications to migrate the On Prem projects to Pega PaaS.
  • Responsible for facilitating business design work sessions, documenting gaps in different business processes, and designing a new business process.

Business Analyst

HCL Technologies
03.2021 - 08.2023

● Responsible in gathering requirements and documentation using use case specifications for a government-contracted healthcare program – Risk Adjustment Data Validation (RAD-V) and Online Submission (OLS).
● Conducting DCO sessions, Focus Group Interviews and Discovery Workshops with Product Owners for Requirements Elaborations and documentation in the form of User Stories, Business Rules, Data specification, Workflows and Screen mockups leveraging Pega OOTB features. Educate Product Owners on Pega OOTB features and ensuring requirements efficiently leverage the Pega OOTB features.

● Hands on experience using the OOTB features such as User Admin, In-bound correspondence.

● Created work type process workflows and local action workflows in PRPC.

● Created and edited case flows and build mock up screens using Process modeler
● Responsible for documentation of ‘As Is’, ‘To Be’ and articulate them to the impacted users and delivery teams.

● Used Contour for writing Epic, user stories with use cases and uploaded them to SharePoint.
● Responsible for conducting JAD sessions with business users, SME’s and System Architect and capture the backlogs in Agile system.

● Participated in weekly status meetings, walkthrough and documented the proceedings through Excel and upload it to SharePoint and Contour.

● Responsible for conducting Client, Product owners’ meetings for anticipation of possible issues and communicating back to the team.

● Created and managed project templates use case project templates, requirement types and traceability relationships in Contour.
● Used Postman and REST service testing for the payload on OLS project from DocuSign. Responsible for Database Testing and Data retrieval by writing SQL queries.
● Hands on experience with documentation of production implementation plan.

Business Analyst

Tech Mahindra
09.2018 - 02.2021
  • Stake holder interaction: Business need analysis and Scope Definition for Clinical and support service departments.
  • Requirement elicitation: Collaborate with Clinical and ancillary Users for Identification of use cases.
  • Requirement rationalization: Communicate the expectations gathered from the business from the system to the development team, in form of systems requirement.
  • Prioritize & Trace Requirements: Prioritize the functionalities to be implemented based on the complexity rating & relevance.
  • Manage Functional Changes: Configuring the system as described in the business requirements.
  • QA & Test strategy: Testing Strategy -in collaboration with project stake holders, confirming if the system is fulfilling the requirements.
  • Training Application Users: Provide training to users of different modules . Help in building the paper based and electronic training material for clinical and support modules of the information system.

Business Consultant

Capgemini Technology Services
05.2016 - 02.2017
  • Analyze health insurance data (costs, utilization, fraud) and generate reports.
  • Identify areas to improve efficiency and reduce costs in healthcare processes.
  • Recommend changes to plans, networks, or reimbursement policies.
  • Gather business requirements for new systems or process improvements.
  • Collaborate with various departments and communicate findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Stay updated on healthcare regulations and industry trends.
  • Utilize data analysis tools and potentially have knowledge of healthcare coding systems.

Senior Analyst

UnitedHealth Group
11.2010 - 04.2016
  • Functions as a liaison between Production Technology, Account Management teams and business clients in gathering, defining and understanding client’s needs.
  • Collaborate with Supervisor, Subject Matter Experts, Product Managers to find the best approaches to address the client’s requirements.
  • Development of business process and technology to support Medicare Claims, Care Management and Medicare Risk Adjustment.
  • Experience in developing requirements and performing system analysis.
  • Experience with managing and or implementing Claims systems and technology.

Education

Bachelor of Science -

RR College, Rajiv Gandhi University.
Bangalore
10.2009

Skills

  • Operations Analysis
  • Technical Writing
  • Data Analysis
  • Gap analysis
  • Business Process Mapping
  • Forecasting and planning
  • KPI Tracking
  • Stakeholder Management

Timeline

Business Analyst

Charter Communnications
09.2023 - Current

Business Analyst

HCL Technologies
03.2021 - 08.2023

Business Analyst

Tech Mahindra
09.2018 - 02.2021

Business Consultant

Capgemini Technology Services
05.2016 - 02.2017

Senior Analyst

UnitedHealth Group
11.2010 - 04.2016

Bachelor of Science -

RR College, Rajiv Gandhi University.
Praveen Kumar K