Guidewire Policy Center Developer

**+ years of progressive IT experience as Lead Programmer Analyst with major experience in Insurance domain

Guidewire Certified Specialist – PolicyCenter 10

Guidewire Certified Associate & Specialist – Insurance Suite 10

Proficient in Development using Product Model, GW Studio and GW PolicyCenter

Experience with web backend development and Integration in Insurance Domain

Good understanding of Policy Administration System, Claims and Billing modules

Expertise in Architectural Design and demonstrated technology leadership

SME in other Insurance tools – OneShield technologies and Web application using JAVA

Writing TESL Services (RulesService, TasksService)

Extensive understanding with Release Management, preparing EAD, resolving issues and meeting business targets, Capacity Planning, Schedule Management

Collaborate closely with cross-functional business teams to align technical solutions with strategic goals

Involved in Application health checks, code reviews, Issue Analysis and debugging.

Subject Matter Expert in application enhancements and production support

Certified Product Owner & Scrum Master – Have good experience in Agile Methodologies

Guidewire PolicyCenter (PC): Configuration and integration using Guidewire Studio; experience with Product Model, UI / workflows / state specific implementations.

Gosu, Java, J2EE, Struts, SpringBoot, Java Stream, Lambda, REST API, Lombok, AWS

OneShield PAS, Billing, Claims, OneShield Designer

Integrations, Rating Development, Web Services, Transformation, ETL, TESL, Drools

IBM Websphere, JBoss Server, WildFly, RAD, Eclipse, MyEclipse, IntelliJ, Guidewire Studio

MySQL, PL/SQL Developer and Oracle DB, PostGres, MongoDB

Git, BitBucket, SVN, PVCS, Cygwin, SOAP UI, OfBiz, Bamboo, Putty, WinSCP, ANT

Jasper Reports, BI Reports, AL3 Viewer, HTML, XML, JSON

Core Technology Skills: Java/J2EE, Gosu, Guidewire Policy Center, OneShield, PL/SQL, Oracle.

Domain: Insurance - P&C – Home & Auto, PL, GL, Cyber, Commercial Property, Worker’s Compensation; Education Domain

Certifications and Training:

1.Guidewire –

a.Associate Certification – Insurance Suite 10.0 Developer

b.Specialist Certification – Insurance Suite 10.0 Integration

c.Specialist Certification – Policy Center 10.0 Configuration

2.OneShield –

a.OneShield Certified in Principals of Property & Casualty Insurance

b.OneShield Certified in OneShield Dragon Foundations

c.OneShield Certified in OneShield Dragon Advanced

3.Agile Certification

a.Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Education: Bach. Of Engg. (CSE), 2008

Fecund: Jan 2018 – Till Date

Client : AmFam Group - MSA - Insurance

Description: Personal Lines Main Street Station (PLMSS) – MetaData driven Policy Administration System (PAS) which maintains the Commercial and Personal line policies to cover risk of Commercial business, and personal Auto & Home. This system is integrated with various applications such as CompareRater, Conversion, DataHub, and various interfaces like Polk VIN, address verification, Loss History, Insurance Score. The system is primarily used by the Insurance agents and underwriter. PAS system has integration with Billing and claim system as well.

Role:Technical Specialist

Technologies: Guidewire PolicyCenter v10, GOSU, Java, Git, Jenkins, OneShield Designer, PL/SQL, Oracle 11g, XML, XSD

Guidewire PolicyCenter – Commercial Lines

Configured and customized Guidewire PolicyCenter to support new commercial lines products.

Developed product model components (CoverageTerms, CoveragePatterns, Modifiers, Availability scripts) per business specifications.

Customized UI screens using PageConfiguration and PCF files for policy submission, renewal, and cancellation workflows.

Built and enhanced Rating Worksheets and configured Rate Routines and Rate Tables as per actuarial inputs.

Implemented Location Grouping and Underwriting Authority Profiles based on user roles and access needs.

Worked closely with Business Analysts and QA teams to translate business rules into Gosu logic for validation and eligibility rules.

Contributed to integration development and mapping for third-party services (ISO, Experian) using SOAP/REST APIs.

Participated in sprint activities, user story sizing, and collaborated with QA and BA teams for successful feature delivery.

Handled multiple state specific rollouts.

OneShield Designer – Personal Auto Line

Designed and implemented business rules and screens for Personal Auto policies.

Configured workflows and integrated middle-tier Java services for core insurance transactions.

Closely work with BA and Product owners for End-to-end responsibility - from analysis the requirements to development and production support.

Handled multiple state specific rollouts.

Responsibilities:

•Configured Guidewire PolicyCenter for commercial lines including product model, coverages, and policy transactions.

•Built custom workflows and UI components in Guidewire Studio; integrated external systems via SOAP/REST.

•Implemented business rules, screens, and rating logic in OneShield Designer for Personal Auto.

•Provided technical analysis and state rollout support for CompareRater and PAS enhancements.

•Led Java integration efforts for document generation, data transformation, and UI middleware logic.

•Reviewed business requirements and participated in Agile ceremonies for end-to-end delivery.

•Managed deployments, code reviews, and defect resolution using GIT and Jira.

•Supported the end-to-end policy lifecycle in OneShield, including quoting, binding, endorsements, and renewals.

•Worked as a subject matter expert for the integrated Java / J2EE application Compare Rater (CompRater) providing technical analysis, design and development for state specific rollouts.

•Create Software /Technical Design Documents (SDD / TDD) for various Java Integrations and Object Model changes done in Dragon Designer.

OneShield: June 2012 – Sept 2017

Internal Projects and Client Projects

Description: OneShield is product owner organization of OneShield System (commonly known as Dragon Designer) which facilitates the Insurance companies to manage the Policy Administration Systems using a metadata driven configurable tool. For more than 5 years, had worked on OneShield’s Internal Projects : Base, Core, Claims, Billing, TESL

And the Client projects: Vault, Allstate, ICAT, GB, Advantage Life, Erie, Allied, Federated

Role: Sr Implementation Developer

Technologies: Java, OneShield Dragon Designer, PL-SQL, Oracle 11g, XML, XSD, JIRA, Bamboo

Responsibilities:

•Implemented various Middle Tier Java Integrations and changes for various clients and internal product enhancements using tools like IBM WAS 8.5, Eclipse, JBoss, WildFly, Tomcat Server and Oracle 12c.

•Worked in building OneShield Claims application using Java technology, OneShield metadata configurations involving Workflow design creations, coverage configurations, and PL/SQL Database.

•Written multiple TESL webservices – RulesServices, TaskServices for product enhancement using Java, REST APIs. Lead a small team for one of the modules.

•Enhancing deployment to Automated Builds and releases using Ant and Bamboo.

•SME for OneShield Dragon Designer projects providing technical analysis and design of Policy Admin system (PAS) architecture as part of Client specific implementations of State expansion and rollouts, New Lines of Businesses, New coverages, and Document platform conversion projects using OneShield Dragon Designer and various project methodologies.

•Review Business Requirements provided by the business and provide inputs from a development perspective. Conduct and participate in triage meeting with the business team and technical team for requirement gathering, and identifying complexities, pain points, and challenges.

•Design the User Interfaces, adding functionality logic and rules using OneShield Dragon Designer metadata. Configured and coded output forms, rating worksheets, Declaration pages using Calligo tools.

•Worked with the team in resolving, executing, and communicating the ongoing deliverables within committed timelines.

•Communicate with project managers as to the progress of open items and work with other developers as needed using knowledge of systems development life cycle, systems design, and project planning.

•Control the Code using the source code control Systems versioning using PVCS Version Manager, CVS & GIT.

•Analyze, Design, Implement and maintain various Web Services that OneShield interacts with other applications and third-party systems.

•Create Software /Technical Design Documents (SDD / TDD) for various Java Integrations and Object Model changes done in Dragon Designer.

•Implement PL/SQL functions and procedures to support the implementation as per the requirement of application design. Create tables and columns for fetching and storing the required values in ORACLE. Writing transformation rules in Dragon Designer to transform the same values to External database tables.

•Manage the development infrastructure, change control, Release management, configuration items, and application security utilizing knowledge of information resource management.

NIIT Ltd:

Managed Training Services (MTS): RedHat

Description: Red Hat is one of the world's leading provider of open source, enterprise IT solutions. NIIT owned application MTS is a knowledge hub portal having two modules: Admin Website, and, Student Website. The concept of Website Branding is applied for the Student site. A branded URL is provided to each client, which completely separates one client from other. Due to more and more enhancement and new clients demanding more functionality, the need of emergence of MTS arrived. The admin site is enhanced for Red Hat.

Role: Software developer

Technologies: Java, Spring, Struts, JSP, EJB, Eclipse, JBoss, Apache 2.0, Cygwin, SOAP WebServices

Responsibilities:

•Develop enterprise-level web applications using Java.

•Use Struts for implementing MVC-based web applications.

•Write JSP pages for front-end views and dynamic content rendering.

•Design and implement business logic using Enterprise Java Beans (EJB).

•Create and consume SOAP Web Services for integration with external systems.

•Worked in integrating the main application with another application written in Spring framework. Build scalable and maintainable components using Spring.

•Use Eclipse IDE for writing, debugging, and testing code efficiently.

•Manage builds, configurations, and deployments within the IDE environment.

•Deploy and manage applications on JBoss Application Server.

•Debug server logs and troubleshoot deployment or runtime issues.

•Implement bug fixes and updates as per change requests.

•Documentation & Code Quality –

Maintain code documentation for readability and future reference.

Follow coding standards and participate in code reviews.

•Collaboration & Agile Practices -

Work closely with QA engineers, business analysts, and other developers.

Participate in agile ceremonies like sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives.

Vayamtech Pvt. Ltd: CGDA Lot-7 IFA, ATC

Description: CGDA is a central Govt. oriented project aiding Defense services of India. It is an Enterprise Application, which comprises of two systems ATC - “Audit Thru Computers” and IFA – “Integrated Financial Advisor”.

IFA is an online process for making all Dak-In/Dak-Out receipts/entries of files with a systematic way and saving lot of manual day-to-day work of officers and other CGDA employees to deliver the files and information, and hence helping them by saving time and devote the same on other important tasks. This system is implemented in all LAO offices of DAD, in all over India across the defense services - Army, Air force, Navy

Role: Software developer

Technologies: Java/J2EE, Struts, JSP, EJB, Jasper Reports, JBoss, PostGres, Linux

Responsibilities:

•Develop enterprise-level web applications using Java.

•Use Struts for implementing MVC-based web applications.

•Write JSP pages for front-end views and dynamic content rendering.

•Design and create custom reports using JasperReports and iReport Designer

•Embed JasperReports into Java web application using JSP, Servlets

•Generate reports in PDF format.

•Provided training to various defense batches in various parts of India.

ISTS Worldwide Technologies Pvt. Ltd: Sequoia - SCS Sherpa

Description: ISTS works in payment solutions. It mainly works in creating Point of Sale (POS) device software which are used for Card swapping.

Sherpa application is a product developed for the client- ‘Sequoia Retail Systems’. It is an Online Inventory store

Role: Software developer

Technologies: Java/J2EE, Struts& JSP, JDK 1.6, Eclipse, JBoss 5.0.1 GA

Responsibilities:

•Develop enterprise-level web applications using Java.

•Use Struts for implementing MVC-based web applications.

•Write JSP pages for front-end views and dynamic content rendering

•Being an overall responsible member of the team, ensuring that all the work deliverables meet the project SLA and meets the quality requirements.

•Responsible for coding, peer review and testing of the programs to deliver the quality deliverables

Role: Trainee

•Develop prototype of the project in HTML and implement the same in Java/J2EE using JSP, and Struts.

•Involved in the entire lifecycle, understanding requirements, design, process flow and development of the of the project.

•Coding involved in VO’s, DAOs, JSPs and Action Classes for dynamic representation of data on the client side.

•Designing the User Interface in JSP.

•Designing JavaScript for client-side Validation.

•Developed Java Bean components to communicate with JSP.

•Preparation of unit test cases and manual testing

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