Business Analyst with Guidewire Claims

Role: Business Analyst with Guidewire Claims (P&C)

Location - NY/ New Jersey (Remote allowed but candidate need to travel to client location on need basis)

Duration: 6+ Months

NOTE: Ideally we are looking for a strong BA with a good amount P&C personal lines Claims experience that can get up and running pretty fast, work at a fast pace (produce roughly a min of 5 stories per week of various sizes), on some large complex projects as the only BA for that team . Ideally experience with Homeowners and/or personal Auto (our two biggest lines) would be our preference. Hope this helps provide further clarity on what we are looking for.

Skill Requirements

• Someone who can drive sessions with the business users to obtain their business requirements of HL requests.
• Work with the business SMEs (of various levels including executives) to look at problems and determine business requirements for the system solutions
• Someone that knows how the business uses a claim system and handle claims.
• They do not need to have technical knowledge of GW (don t need to be able to configure / code in GW). But experience with running / obtaining the business requirements for projects adding new functionality to GW or new integrations would be a big plus.
• Can write business user stories and work with the technical (Dev and QA) to determine solutions and final requirements for the User Story and functionality requested.
• Has worked on UAT (writing scripts, helping facilitate the UAT session, assess and try to recreate defect and explain them to the team, etc.)
• Someone that can largely work on their own to drive the requirements from start of gathering them through working go live and warranty (working with the dev team and qa team for implementation and testing, can demo to the business, work with our Ops team on scenarios for UAT, create UAT scripts, facilitate UAT, support the training team, and support release and warranty of the item)