Programmer Analyst Trainee (Business Analyst) - Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
(2025-08)
Client: Fortune 500 Financial Services Organization
- Mapped business logic and source data structures to target schemas for a legacy-to-cloud SaaS migration of retirement-account data across 4 modules.
- Diagnosed gaps between legacy and target-system schemas and identified 12 source-to-target data discrepancies during migration validation, enabling defect triage through UAT.
- Reconciled source-to-target data across 4 migration modules, validating participant contribution and plan-rule data using Oracle SQL Developer.
- Investigated post-migration data-quality anomalies through SQL queries, accelerating defect triage and resolution.
- Authored 25+ functional user stories and acceptance criteria in Jira, aligning requirements between product and engineering teams across migration waves.
- Tested 15+ backend REST APIs in Postman for the customer-facing portal, uncovering 12 API payload defects ahead of UAT sign-off.
Programmer Analyst Trainee – Internship - Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
(2025-04 - 2025-07)
- Completed structured training in SDLC, Agile/Scrum, relational databases, and SQL query design.
- Analyzed a case-study business requirement as part of a 4-member team, translating requirements into use cases and Jira sprint tasks.
Trainee, Business Analyst - KPMG Advisory Services Pvt. Ltd.
(2023-08 - 2023-10)
Client: Government & Public Sector, HRMS/ERP Implementation
- Reviewed RFPs and policy documents to extract functional workflows for a state-government HRMS/ERP implementation serving 300,000+ employees.
- Evaluated gaps between existing and proposed workflows and authored SRS/FRD documentation across 3 ERP functional workstreams.
- Captured requirements from 4 stakeholder-elicitation workshops and synthesized inputs into structured BRD drafts.
- Mapped AS-IS and TO-BE processes across Employee/Manager Portals and Leave Management, coordinating UAT across 5+ functional workflows.
- Developed step-by-step training materials facilitating post-go-live onboarding for 150+ government HR staff.
