PRASAD PICHIKA

Experience

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  Cognizant

  Oct 2004 - Dec 2016

  Creation of Project Plan, Traceability Matrix for the project.Arranging periodic Status calls and act as a Single point of contact for client managersThe point of contact for interacting with the client in order to discuss and resolve queries related to requirements, project status, and resource allocation.Providing work packages to the onsite and offshore team members, monitoring work progress and ensuring timely and quality delivery.Identify any project risks and issues and resolve them in a timely manner.Assist the Client project manager in estimation of efforts and working out the resource plan. Designing the Workflow structure and creation of corresponding documents.Attend meetings to gather business requirements, assimilating them and breaking them into functional components. Participate in Data Assessment, finding data sources, data elements definitions, data source flow, hierarchy diagram, logical data model and physical data model, with the help of Mellon employees and DBA’s (Database administrators).Create detailed functional specifications and coordinating with Offsite development teams to come up with scalable design specifications. Utilization of Cognizant proprietary tools for design and development so that is complies with Client Standards.Responsible for setting up the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) environment, preparing the UAT testing documents and attending/resolving any issues that arise during UAT.Plan and execute rollout into Integration Testing, System Testing, and User Acceptance Testing and Production environments.Serve as a contact for implementation and postproduction support activities.Periodic code/peer reviews to improve the quality of deliverables.Monitoring one time (Full) and weekly scheduled (Incremental) production batch loads. Document the implementations as per required CMM Standards and was instrumental in Cognizant’s growth in Client Business. Show less Has involved in Project planning and monitoring, estimation, scheduling and budgetingHas Involved in key technical design activities and all SDLC phasesManaging Invoicing, rotation plan and associate report activities for MIS TDD work order Own Knowledge management (KT) task force, one of the differentiating task force in the divisionProcess and quality adherence. 100% Cognizant 2.0 compliance and Project Health Score always in green for the Program managed.Coordinating the work of team members, assigning and regulating project work of the team membersManaging Work Schedule Distribution and Management ReportingEncouraging the team to utilize code coverage tools for improved performance of the Programs.Designing the REXX tools and developing the associated programs with the help of the team.Creation of Knowledge transition documents for the implemented projects.Ensuring process compliance and adherence to SLA. Show less

  • Project Manager

    Jul 2014 - Dec 2016

  • Senior Associate

    Apr 2010 - Jun 2014

  • Associate

    Apr 2007 - Mar 2010

  • Programmer Analyst

    Oct 2004 - Mar 2007
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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Dec 2016 - now

  Project Manager