Guidewire Business Analyst – GW ClaimCenter

Job description

Job Description

Guidewire Business Analyst – GW ClaimCenter

Position Description
We are Canada’s largest independent information technology services firm, and after 44 years, we are still growing! Join Canada’s largest IT Company as a Guidewire Business Analyst, in our Insurance Vertical in the GTA. Since our founding in 1976, CGI has been at the forefront of change within the Insurance sector. CGI understands industry challenges and has the experience to help clients overcome these challenges, minimize upfront capital outlays, and achieve business results that drive performance and profitability.
The GTA-CPS Property & Casualty Insurance team is looking to staff client engagements with skilled Guidewire Business Analysts. We are looking to staff using a combination of existing Property & Casualty Insurance Vertical members and new additions.

Your future duties and responsibilities
Your future duties and responsibilities:
• Reporting into the Requirements Manager for performing business analysis function
• Works in a fast paced cross functional agile (Scrum/SAFe) work environment
• Leads requirements for Guidewire ClaimCenter – Integration and Conversion functions with a focus on Commercial lines of business
• Works with client SME to elicit business and technical requirements
• Conducts user story / sprint demonstrations at the end of sprint / release
• Conducts and facilitates workshops / JAD sessions etc. with internal and client stakeholders; seeks timely approvals from the client SME / stakeholders
• Documents requirements specifications for data analysis, data mappings for Guidewire, third party integrations and transformation
• Develops functional specifications in the form of User Stories, process flows, use cases, data mappings leveraging tools such as JIRA, Confluence, rally etc.
• Works with product owner and team to determine the Acceptance criteria for a user story
• Performs testing of the completed user stories
• Conducts user story / sprint demos at the end of sprint / release
• Participates in agile sprint ceremonies, daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews and retrospective sessions
• Conducts end user training by means of workshops, training guides and operation manuals
• Works with globally distributes teams across geographies for the purpose of delivering
• Works with internal development, testing teams to support requirements clarifications throughout the project execution
• Works with Requirements Manager, Scrum Master and Program Manager for various project activities

What will you bring?
• Excellent domain knowledge in Property & Casualty Insurance to understand and analyze the business needs of the customer
• Detailed knowledge of Guidewire applications specifically ClaimCenter
• Experience in data analysis, data mappings for Guidewire and third party integrations
• Expertise in creating functional specifications in the form of User Stories, process flows, use cases, data mappings
• Experienced in gathering, defining and organizing business and functional requirements – including acceptance criteria for use by developers and testers to implement and test a functionality
• Ability to lead and facilitate the requirements gathering sessions
• Eliciting requirements and scope using client interviews, documents reviews, legacy analysis, survey and translating client requirements into agile user stories
• Collaboratively work closely with business product owners, architects, actuaries, developers and testers to ensure the solution is built in accordance to defined requirements
• Identifying, capturing, resolving or escalating risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies
• Strong business judgement, leadership and integrity; Should be able to take decisions, able to bring healthy, aggressive, yet responsible approach to business problems
• Ability to work in the global delivery model and be a liaison between the client and software development team situation across different geographies
• Experience in working in a fast paced Agile (Scrum / SAFe) and multiple stakeholder environments

Required qualifications to be successful in this role
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
• Minimum 8 to 10 years of experience in delivering wide range of technology solutions across Insurance Industry
• At least 3 to 5 years of BSA experience in Guidewire ClaimCenter
• Experience in writing functional/technical specifications
• Hands on experience working on Guidewire Data Dictionary, Product Designer, Underwriting rules etc.
• Experience in data analysis, data mappings for Guidewire and third-party integrations
• Experience in performing testing
• Experience in running SQL queries
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpretation skills

Nice to have:
• Guidewire ClaimCenter functional certifications
• Agile certifications (Scrum/SAFEe)
• Insurance enthusiast

Technical skills:
• Guidewire application knowledge – ClaimCenter
• Experience in performing testing - UAT
• Experience in using management tolls like – Confluence, Jira, Rally, RTC etc.
• Expertise in using Microsoft Office suite, Visio etc.
• Ability to query SQL database and analyze results
• Experience working on XML and JSON structures

Build your career with us.

It is an extraordinary time to be in business. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, CGI is at the center of this change—supporting our clients’ digital journeys and offering our professionals exciting career opportunities.

At CGI, our success comes from the talent and commitment of our professionals. As one team, we share the challenges and rewards that come from growing our company, which reinforces our culture of ownership. All of our professionals benefit from the value we collectively create.

Be part of building one of the largest independent technology and business services firms in the world.

Learn more about CGI at www.cgi.com.

No unsolicited agency referrals please.

CGI is an equal opportunity employer. In addition, CGI is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in accordance with provincial legislation. Please let us know if you require a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.

Skills

·  Business Analysis

Reference

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