Associate Software Developer

BUSINESS ANALYST PRAGYA LATHIYA

**** ******* ****** **, *** 3G, Columbia, SC, 29223, Phone: 803-***-****, **********@*****.***

Career Objective

Seeking Insurance Business Analyst position supporting business objectives through successful initiation, planning, execution, control and closing of projects and programs

Profressional Experience

Project

Hartford IC

Period

Aug 2008 – Dec 2008

Responsibilities

Functional Approach definition, Requirement documentation, Smoke and Regression testing, Functional testing, Integration test and Issue tracking.

Team size

15

Project Description

Hartford IC Project caters to the need of Hartford Insurance in North America. These enhancements were done on the top of CSC’s Exceed Insurance Product. Was responsible for Design and development of these enhancements for Policy Subsystem. Policy Subsystem addresses the business needs of creating new Insurance Policy, attaching various Vehicle, Home and Dwelling Units to these policies for the coverage taken by the insured. Once all the policy information is fed to the system it undergoes rating process to determine premium charged to insured. Also before issuing a Policy an underwriting process is initiated by system to take decisions whether Policy should be issued, referred or place on hold based on various underwriting factors.

Project

Unitrin IC (Auto Driver)

Period

Dec 2008 – Nov 2009

Responsibilities

Test case document preparation, Use case analysis, Requirement and approach document, Functional testing

Team size

17

Project Description

These enhancements were done on Exceed product Policy subsystem for Unitrin Insurance customer. Below features are supported by these enhancements:

1)It provides the flexibility of making Driver assignments on Vehicle Unit attached to the Policy. This process of assignment is automated as soon as rating on Policy is initiated. Once the Policy has been rated user can see Driver assignments to Vehicle by accessing the Policy inquiry mode.

2)Also rating indicator was set based on the underwriter decision.

3)Vehicle functionality was modified to provide additional input for information such as Collision, Liability and OTC.

4)These enhancements were configured ON/OFF based on switches and DBLs configured as per customer requirement.

5)Continuous Delivery Process (CDR) and guidelines were followed in order to deliver these functionalities as per Quality standards.

Project

Unitrin IC (Agency Lock Data)

Period

Nov 2009 – March 2010

Responsibilities

Approach Document, Requirement gathering, Functional QA Testing, Integration Testing and System Testing.

Team size

8

Project Description

This enhancement was developed for Unitrin Insurance Company. It provides flexibility to access third party claims system through Exceed products Policy subsystem. These third party claims screens and database was accessed by setting up web service communication between Exceed Policy and third party system, Exceed Product is three tier architecture consisting of three layers, i) Front End ii) Communication framework iii) Mainframe Host. In order to interact with third party system web service calls were routed through communication framework. Mainframe Host is enterprise information system wherein Business logic and data access logic is coded to access mainframe DB2 database, Calls from Mainframe to third party system are directed from communication framework vis-à-vis. Following functions are support by Exceed Policy system: 1) Endorsement 2) Renewal 3) Cancellation 4) Reinstatement and 5) Correction/Reissue.

Education

-Master of Engineering in Computer Science & Engineering from RGPV University 2012(India) with honors (C.G.P.A - 7.98).

-Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science & Engineering from I.E.T University 2008(India) with honors (Percentage – 76.9%).

Technical Skills

-COBOL, JCL, CICS, QUICK 3270, DB2, SQL, Visual Studio, ASP.NET, XML, XSLT, C#

-Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)

-Good understanding of SQL and Relational Database Management

-Familiar with Agile software development methodology

-Completed INS 21 and INS 22 (AICPCU)

Additional Skills

-Strong Interpersonal communication skills.

-Problem analysis and problem solving.

-Organizational skills and customer service orientation.

-Adaptability and ability to work under pressure.

-Initiator.

I hereby declare that all the information given above is true and written with best of my knowledge.

Place: Columbia, SC Yours Faithfully

Date: 06/29/2016 Pragya Lathiya

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