SUMMARY:

• 9 years of Strong experience in analysis, design, development, testing and deployment of software applications mainly based on the Web technologies, n - tier and Client-Server architecture and 6 years of experience in Guidewire Claim Center, Policy center and Billing center
• Well-equipped in planning estimation and scheduling.
• Well-equipped in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle and metrics.
• Experienced in implementing policy center data migration using Guidewire accelerator
• Experienced in integrating complex integrations with the external vendors using webservices, Plugins, messaging
• Experienced in generating Daily, Monthly and yearly reports for the external vendors
• Experienced in implementing customized business functionality using Gosu in appropriate rulesets, enhancements, code tabs on PCF files.
• Experienced in using Agile Methodology including creating product / sprint catalogs, active participation in Scrum, Sprint planning and exit meetings and also to lead the scrum meetings when called for.
• Active role in eliciting requirements from users by utilizing methods like Interviews, Requirement workshops, Joint Application Design (JAD) best practices.
• Designed, developed, and delivered several commercial Web and Java and GUI applications.
• Experienced in creation of burn up and burn down charts for measuring task completion and resource utilization during a sprint.
• High proficiency in written and oral communication skills along with excellent inter personal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages/Design Tools: JAVA, Gosu

Products: Guidewire Claim Center 7.x, Guidewire PolicyCenter7.x, Guidewire Billing Center3.x, Guidewire Claim Center 8.x, Guidewire PolicyCenter 8.x, Guidewire Billing Center8.x Guidewire Contact Center / Contact Manager and Guidewire Studio

Web/Application Servers: Tomcat, WebLogic and Jetty

IDE: Eclipse 3.2, my Eclipse, Guidewire Studio and Edit plus.

Database: Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g and SQL Server 2000/2005 / 2008/2012 and MySQL 5.x

Version or Source Control: CVS, GIT, Clear case, Tortoise Subversion and Perforce.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Madison, WI

Senior Guidewire Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked On copy submission functionality
• Improved the performance of the existing batch process and also sequenced and stream lined the dependent batch jobs
• Identified various performance impacting code and optimized them
• Developed functionality for creating multiple certificates for the policy
• Implemented Search, Local print, batch print and email functionalities for the Certificates
• Developed discount framework to configure the BOP discount instances
• Configured various discount instances.
• Worked on the Reference material URL’s and preference settings
• Worked on the automatic email notification when an activity is assigned to the user /user group
• Developed Data Load API which is extensively used by the testing team to create submissions, Bind and issue the policy.
• Developed message History search functionality
• Configured various GUnits Templates and Factory classes which are used by all GUnits
• Worked on the Database triggers to remove unused Entities, columns and Type list
• Used code Narc to identify issues and fixed them
• Fixed database consistency checks issues
• Worked on unit testing and system Integration testing.
• Involving in the defect tracking, fixing in Stabilization.
• Worked as code merge coordinator for merging various branches
• Developed various GIT scripts to automate the current process
• Created new data model elements and extended the existing applications data model with new properties
• Establish and execute traceable unit and integration tests (automated as to be agreed)
• Execute the development & ensure successful completion of assigned user stories for each sprint.

Confidential, Norwich, CT

Guidewire Lead

Responsibilities:

• Integrated policy center with multiple comparative raters like PL rater, Win rater and EZ rater.
• Integrated with lexis Nexis using web service to pull the credit scores which are used in rating as part of evaluating a quote
• Worked on various PC batch process like OFAC, CLUE monthly to Lexis Nexis
• Integrated with Ivan’s for commission payments
• Worked on general ledger integration for billing center and claim center and extracted financial data for generating monthly reports
• Implemented Jenkins Scheduler plugin to handle the batch process in pc, bc, cc and external batch process
• Created new GXmodels and used them to generate the payloads
• Expert in batch Sequencing and performance optimization
• Created and enhanced various Screens, Pages, Details views and list views
• Created several event fired rules to track financial transactions
• Created and extended new entities as per the client requirement.
• Enhanced various Expensive value expressions and queries to improve performance

Confidential, Brea, CA

Senior Guidewire Developer

Responsibilities:

• Tested existing code and identified various performance impacting items and optimized them.
• Optimized multiple performance intensive method calls in UI.
• Identified various performance impacting code for form trigger and forms in Policy center and improved performance by 50%.
• Created index for entities and achieved up to 98% performance improvement.
• Extensively used guidewire profiler to profile batch process, web services, Web sessions, work queue and Startable plugins
• Integrated GW application with APPDynamics
• Worked on Mbeans to monitor the system Performance
• Enhanced and Implemented BatchRunner accelerator for PC, BC and CC which triggers the batch process defined in guidewire application and to track the progress of batch execution up to completion.
• Worked on batch load testing, estimated its threshold limit and improved their performance to handle more load
• Fine-tuned and stream lined Billing center batch process like PaymentMethodChange, PaymentProcess, InvoiceDue, Invoice, Auto Disbursement, Disbursement and checkPrinting
• Enhanced and Implemented HyperCube framework which allows queries against multi-dimensional sets of data where one or more query result values may be returned for use in decision trees or calculations

Confidential, Encino, CA

Policy Center Integration Developer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering client data model for both legacy and Policy Center.
• Interacting with the client’s business team on requirement change or enhancements (These are running targets)
• Present prototype of proposed solution and finalize requirements
• Design of data mapping for both legacy and Policy Center.
• Creating staging table to load legacy payloads
• Configuring GXmodels according to the structure of migrating payload.
• Configuring batch to improve the processing.
• Invoking batch and migrating data from staging table to GW Policy Center.
• Testing the migrated data and fixing related issues
• Conducted regular Code Reviews to give valuable design and implementation suggestions to other members of the team
• This process was implemented using AGILE Methodology and not only actively participated in the Scrum meetings but also led the Scrum meetings when called for.

Environment: Guidewire data migration accelerator 7.0.7, Guidewire Policy Center 7.0, Guidewire Contact Center 7.0, Guidewire Studio 7.0, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2012, Tortoise SVN, WebSphere Application Server, My Eclipse, XML Studio, Tomcat.

Confidential, Chevy Chase, MD

Guidewire Configuration Developer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering for Desktop views and Team Tab user and supervisor views
• Requirement gathering for activity patterns required by various teams on the ATLAS project.
• Building design documents for desktop views and team tab views requirements including UI specification document, use case document etc.
• Created various activity pattern as per requirements from the multiple teams on ATLAS project.
• Building different screens, details views, list views and input sets for implementing Desktop views and Team views for Salvage.
• Building different screens, details views, list views and input sets for implementing Desktop views and Team views for ADRewrite.
• Redesigning the team tab view as per new requirements from the business.
• Performance boosting of the team tab view for faster rendering of the page on login of the user.
• Fixing upgrade issues from GUI code for the activities module.
• Creating Desktop view and Team View for the appointments / assignments for the AD Adjusters.
• Adding salvage and subrogation statistics display on the claim summary page on team tab view.
• Participated as a key member in the design discussion for emergency road service module.

Environment: Guidewire Contact Center 7.x, Guidewire ClaimCenter 7.0.4.x, Guidewire Studio 7.0.4.x, perforce, my Eclipse, XML Studio.

Confidential

Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all aspects of the software development lifecycle
• Interfaced with end-users, production staff and business units for the purpose of gathering requirements
• Responsible for creating Java modules for checking and savings account, and customer database
• Independently developed authentication procedures using JSP and JDBC
• Involved in developing Java modules to generate reports and statements.
• Participated in the requirements gathering, scope analysis, and detailed design phases of the project.
• Developed tag libraries to display the information on the front end, as per the user requirements.
• Developed an advanced dynamic front-end using JSP, JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Designed and developed the middle tier java beans components for workflow logic and database abstraction.
• Developed graphical user interface (GUI) for the product using JSP
• Validated the client server code and server side code
• Created Operational model based on business requirements, Extract technical requirements from functional reporting
• Extensive client interaction and business user interaction for requirements gathering
• Create user's and user groups for specific functional work processing and collected user input statistics
• Developed automated test tools using XML
• Created and worked on Oracle tables, dealt with PL-SQL Queries. Worked on the table structures, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reporter, PL-SQL, Tuning etc.
• Understanding business requirements to recommend and communicate potential areas of integration with other Oracle modules and legacy systems
• Used MQ Series to notify the message to the legacy Systems, once the transaction is completed. It notifies successfully otherwise message with exception.
• Implemented the entire UI/Front-End pages for the Net Pay/system using XSL/JavaScript/XPath.
• Test data in XML files was converted to java objects using DOM
• Wrote shell scripts to help perform routine activities like monitoring performance, starting/stopping and archiving logs of applications.

Environment: Java, J2EE, WebSphere application server, XML, XSL, JSP, Struts, XSLT, HTML, Java Script, JDBC, Oracle 8i.