Guidewire
Systems Business Analyst (BSA)
As a Guidewire Systems Business Analyst (BSA), you will join a team contributing to a strategic Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance Transformation Program. You will participate in the evolution of Guidewire solutions by acting as a liaison between business and technology teams. You will work closely with business partners, developers, architects, and quality assurance specialists to define, document, and implement solutions that meet organizational needs. You will contribute to process analysis, requirements definition, and the continuous improvement of solutions and delivery practices. You will actively participate in the delivery of Guidewire initiatives in an Agile environment, ensuring alignment between business needs, proposed solutions, and organizational objectives.
More specifically, you will be responsible for:
- Acting as an intermediary
between business and technology teams to gather, analyze, and document
business and functional requirements
- Participating in the analysis
of business processes and recommending solutions to improve operational
efficiency and business value
- Translating business needs into
user stories, business rules, functional specifications, and other
deliverables required for solution implementation
- Preparing impact analyses,
process diagrams, and functional documentation to support solution design
and delivery
- Collaborating with developers,
quality assurance specialists, architects, and business partners
throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure a shared understanding of
requirements and solutions
- Participating in the analysis,
design, planning, and implementation of Guidewire solutions
- Contributing to the definition
of test cases and supporting functional validation and user acceptance
testing activities
- Monitoring incidents,
enhancement requests, and functional issues in collaboration with the
relevant teams
- Participating in the resolution
of production issues and providing user support when required
- Actively participating in Agile
ceremonies and contributing to the continuous improvement of processes,
practices, and delivery methods.
Requirements
Required Expertise:
- Bachelor's degree in Business
Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related
discipline
- A minimum of eight (8) years of
relevant experience in business analysis or functional analysis, including
five years as a Systems Business Analyst (BSA) working with the Guidewire
platform
- Please note that other
combinations of relevant education and experience may be considered
- Experience in the Property
& Casualty insurance industry
- Experience in gathering,
analyzing, and documenting business and functional requirements
- Experience writing user
stories, functional specifications, business rules, and impact analyses
- Experience delivering projects
in an Agile environment and in preparing and executing functional and user
acceptance testing
- Guidewire ACE certification
- French language proficiency
required
- Advanced English proficiency
due to the nature of the responsibilities, work tools, and interactions
with English-speaking partners, members, and clients
- Advanced knowledge of
application integration concepts as well as REST/SOAP, XML, and JSON
technologies
- Advanced knowledge of Property
& Casualty insurance business processes
- Knowledge of collaboration and
management tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio, and the Microsoft Office
suite
- Knowledge of underwriting,
billing, or claims processes in Property & Casualty insurance
