Resource Profile

• Client is looking for Business Analysts with proven experience implementing in Guidewire Products Suite Agile and experience in SCRUM set up
  

• Provide expertise and support to the technical teams and business clients throughout the enterprise by conducting in-depth analysis, summary, and recommendations.
  
• Maintain effective working relationships with the business to discuss and resolve issues, understand current state and business processes, identify future needs and opportunities to fully support business data and report needs. Perform other related duties as assigned or required.
  
• Participate in daily SCRUMs, forums, product demos and working groups varying in scope and complexity
  
• Work on reports and presentation materials.
  
• Provide input/feedback for Sprints planning
  
• Fill SCRUM master role if required
  
• Lead and perform testing activities as per defined Sprints schedule
  

Knowledge & Skills

• 8+ years experience in business analysis with a focus on insurance
  
• 8+ years facilitating agreement between several stakeholders with different opinions to obtain business requirements
  
• 5+ years senior level communications experience including document prep, conducting workshops and presentation to executive level
  
• 7+ years in an Agile environment with exposure to SCRUM, and Lean methodologies
  
• Working with Guidewire products, specifically, Claim Center,Policy center & Billing center Contact Manager
  
• Understand Guidewire implementation methodology and processes
  
• Experience implementing Guidewire products
  
• Working with Agile practices and associated skills including user story writing and defining user acceptance criteria
  
• Analyze a broadly-defined area and using functional decomposition to define high-level epics and stories
  
• Create a well-organized, value-driven framework to provide the required business value in the Product Backlog.
  
• Write individual stories that are very clear and concise and are easy to understand and implement by the development team.
  
• Identify related user stories and epics, group them into themes as necessary and document the interrelationship and associated business process flows
  
• Ability to understand complex technical concepts and present them in simple terms to nontechnical team members and clients.
  
• Proven experience with end-to-end business process mapping, business and technical requirements analysis, business planning, modeling, verification and methodology and product development.
  
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills to effectively build relationships and influence decisions
  
• Influential skills include conflict management, negotiation and facilitation skills to act as a consultant in various forms to resolve issues, diffuse conflicts and handle escalated sensitive issues from team members and to alert project sponsors of serious repercussions.
  
• Analytical, evaluation and problem-solving skills, to assess client requirements and translate
  
• these into functional and information documentation (e.g. re process/IT requirements and
  
• changes).