Prachit Parikh

Business Analyst | AI, data, requirements, SQL data validation, UAT

About Prachit Parikh

I'm a business analyst. Most of my work sits where requirements, data and testing meet: I take what stakeholders say they need and turn it into requirements and user stories a team can build and test, each with acceptance criteria and a clear line to the test that proves it.

I check the data behind those requirements in SQL and Excel, build reports in Power BI, and plan UAT so a change goes live the way the business expected. I was a business analyst at Banking Circle, working on data validation, traceability and UAT planning. Before that I worked in customer care at Elevance Health and did business systems analysis on an employee portal and an inventory system at Saklax Manufacturing.

These days I write about where business analysis is heading: AI agents that build from specs, data you can actually trust, and what the future of work looks like for people who translate between the business and the machines.

Free BA toolkit

BA Toolkit by Prachit Parikh

Free templates: UAT plan, data mapping sheet, traceability matrix, 7 SQL data validation checks and an agent-ready requirements checklist.

Latest video

AI agents can write the code now. The bottleneck is the requirements. (video)

YouTube. A 3-minute animated explainer on why clear, testable requirements matter more than ever with AI coding agents. Shorts: AI made developers 19% slower? · 95% of AI pilots showed no profit · How to write requirements AI can build

Latest writing

AI agents can write the code now. The bottleneck is the requirements.

Medium. What Stack Overflow, METR, MIT and Gartner research says about AI at work, and a checklist for agent-ready requirements.

Data mapping document template: how I map a system migration field by field

Hashnode. A copyable template, transformation rules and a sign-off checklist.

7 SQL checks I run before UAT sign-off

Dev.to. Row counts, totals, duplicates, orphans and more, with queries you can copy.

What a good UAT plan actually looks like

Substack. Scope, entry and exit criteria, and how to keep testing on track.

What a business analyst actually does all day

Blogger. A realistic look at the job.

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