Candidates About

        

  Shiva Kumar

Guidewire Developer

 

 PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

·         7+ years of combined experience in JAVA/J2EE application development

·         3+ years of experience in Guidewire platform.

·         Worked on tasks based on Projects and Incoming Support Tickets.

·         Projects consists of developing in Guidewire using Java and GOSU Code, making changes to the Oracle DB via SQL scripts, and updating and creating new code based on requirements.

·         Very good understanding of Model View Controller (MVC), Client Server and Multi-tier architectures.

·         Expertise in web development using Angular JS, HTML, DHTML, CSS, Java Script, XSL, XSLT, and XML (SAX, DOM, JAXP, JAXB).

·         Good experience in writing SQL Queries, PL/SQL Procedures, Functions, Triggers

·         Experience in working with Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic and JBoss.

·         Performed end-to-end, functional, integration (via Thunderhead), and regression testing

·         Professional experience in designing, developing and testing internet/intranet Web-based applications, Client/Server applications, J2EE Architecture, OO Design patterns, Core Java.

·         Worked on new extensions, enhancements, GOSU classes, PCFs in Guidewire Billing Center.

·         Extensive knowledge in Insurance domain in Property and Casualty Insurance (Policy and Claims). 

·         Worked on Data Migration between various versions of Claim Center applications. 

·         Worked on client-side widget behavior and server widget behaviors. 

·         Good understanding with Guidewire Rating Framework.

·         Experience working on integration mechanisms like Messaging, Web services, Plugins, GX Models, GOSU templates. 

·         Solid techno functional expertise and experience on Guidewire Policy Center 8.x,7.x (Configuration, Integration), Guidewire Claim Center 7.x and 8.X (Configuration, Integration) and Guidewire Billing Center 8.X.

·         Worked on Custom Batch Processing, Work flows, Localizations, Activity Patterns, Groups, Users, Administration, Event Messages, and Script Parameters. 

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Guidewire Products	Guidewire Rating Framework, Policy Center, Claim Center, Billing Center, Guidewire Portal and Contact Manager.
Languages	Java, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, GOSU
Web/Application Servers	IBM Web Sphere, JBoss, Tomcat
Operating Systems	Windows, UNIX
Databases	Oracle, SQL Server
Open Source	Apache, Log4j
Build Tools	Jenkins, Maven, Ant
IDE	Guidewire Studio, IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.x, RAD, Eclipse
Version Control System	Tortoise SVN, Git

 

WORK EXPERIENCE:

 

Project 1:

Client: CNA Insurance Group, Chicago, IL                                                                                       AUG’15 to till date

Role: Guidewire Developer

Responsibilities: 

·         Involved in daily scrum and weekly meetings to provide status and discuss potential issues. 

·         Prepared Integration design documents for various integration functionalities. 

·         Designed and developed Inbound and Outbound Interfaces in Policy Center. 

·         Customized data model as per business requirements in Policy Center. 

·         Customized Policy Search and Retrieval services to integrate Policy Center with Claim Center. 

·         Integrated Policy Center with Other Portals for retrieval of Customer Information. 

·         Led several projects and teams responsible for integrating Guidewire Claim Center, Billing Center and Policy Centers; integration with external and internal systems.

·         Implemented VIN validation and Address Validation Services in Policy Center. 

·         Involved in customization of Data Model as per business requirements in Policy Center. 

·         Implemented Quote, bind and Default level validations in Policy Center

·         Hands on experience with various Guidewire rating frameworks including Rate Table Maintenance, Rating algorithm workbench, rating impact testing, and Rating worksheets. 

·         Design and develop web service to generate Producer's Commission Report from Billing Center in Policy Center. 

·         Involved in integration with Web Services in Policy Center. 

·         Worked on multiple configuration and screen development activities within Guidewire Claim Center application.

·         Involved in Design and developed Outbound messaging service for GL reporting in Claim Center. 

·         Involved in Design and Developed Reinsurance Agreement Admin Functions for Excess of Loss Treaty in Claim Center. 

·         Involved in integration of Policy Center, Claim Center and Contact Manager

·         Worked on implementation of integrating Claim Center with Rental Reservation System

·         Worked on integration of Claim Center with Vehicle Management System.

·         Worked on the implementation of Emergency Service functionality in Claim center

·         Worked on new extensions, enhancements, GOSU classes, PCFs in Guidewire Billing Center.

·         Implemented Cancellation and Delinquency work flows in Billing Center.

·         Extensive experience in Customizing Billing Center implementations like Billing API, Invoice Assembler, Payment Plan etc.  as per client requirements

·         Implemented the rules for Payment Acceptability, Payment Request, Billing Instructions, Policy Period, Suspense Payment, Disbursements etc.

·         Integrated Billing Center with external applications and other Guidewire applications

·         Working experience in configuration of Rating Engine classes for various line of business. 

·         Involved in configuration of Rate Books, Rate Tables, Parameters and Routines as part of Rating Management

·         Performed Code Reviews, Coordinated Claim Center personal auto and general liability project

·         Analysis, Design and develop Messaging Plugin to send the Claim financial information to downstream system.

·         Creating and Modifying Rules for loss details, policy, exposures, financials, activities, matters, claims

·         Involved in running the claim center maintenance tools, table import commands as the process of integrity checks and database consistency checks.

·         Implemented activity patterns and Assignment logic for Custom Assignable entities in Policy Center.  

Environment: Guidewire Claim Center 8.x, Policy Center 8.x, Billing Center 8.x & Guidewire Contact Manager 8.x, Guidewire Rating framework, SQL Server, MBoss, Tomcat Server, GIT, XML Studio. 

Project 2:

Client: GEICO, Tampa, FL                                                                                                               Nov’13 – Jul’15

Role: Guidewire Developer

                                                                                                               
Responsibilities: 

·         Used Guidewire studio for interface development, rules design and implementation.

·         Created new PCFs as well as modify PCFs for Policy Creation wizard.

·         Created Alert messages for various transactions of Personal Auto Policy Claims.

·         Deployed Data model to identify gaps and changing Entities and type-lists to include new fields per business requirement.

·         Work on Forms development team, build the xml’s with GX Models and send them to Thunder Head service.

·         Created new Pages, Popups, and Worksheet Screens and Exit points as per requirements in the project.

·         All aspects of PolicyCenter configuration with multiple lines of business

·         Involved in merging activities of Claim, FNOL, Financial, Desktop, Admin screens

·         Worked on modifications on rules related to exposure creation, activity creation and assignment of claims, exposures and activities

·         Designed and Developed plug-in, batch programs to integrate new claim system with External Systems.

·         Cleaned up unnecessary rules that were no longer being used as part of GPUP claim processing

·         Integrated Claim Center with several external vendors

·         Created Intermediate Data Store using Erwin for the XML's generated by Guidewire PolicyCenter plug-in generator to feed all the downstream systems.

·         Worked side by side with Claim Center and Billing Center team for monthly release

·         Creating and modifying Rules in Rule sets (Segmentation, Assignment, Validation, Exception, Transaction Approval, and Pre-Update).

·         Written GOSU code for integration with IA (Integration Adapter) in PolicyCenter.

·         Created Entity extensions and extended type-lists based on business requirements.

·         Working on creating connectivity through MQ between applications.

·         The configuration process was implemented using agile methodology and actively participated in scrum, sprint planning and exit meetings.

·         Design and develop various configuration functionalities using appropriate Wizards, Pages, Popups, Screens, Detail Views, List Views and Input Sets in Policy Center. 

·         Implement required business Rules in Post-setup, Pre-setup, Validation, Pre-Update and Event Fired rule sets in Policy Center. 

·         Implemented Pre-update rules on Transaction, Account, Policy Period and Activity entities to capture the History events.

·         Developed java classes to feed the Corvel data from Claim Center to Corvel

·         Worked on side by side configuration to add modifiers to the page.

·         Customized the user interface sidebar containing actions menu so that a user can navigate to different parts of the application and let users to create new page locations.

·         Created reusable utility GOSU files for common methods e.g. String manipulation, Address concatenation, Data manipulation.

·         Developed the Plugins and Other messaging plugins to communicate between two end systems.

·         Worked on Test Definition workshop, Test Strategy, Test Planning using Insurance Test Framework for Guidewire.

·         Involved in creating standard document on GOSU coding, Enhancement coding, Data model coding standards.

Environment: Guidewire Claim center 7.x, Guidewire PolicyCenter 7.x, Guidewire Billing Center 7.x, Guidewire studio, SQL Server, XML studio, MBass, WebSphere Application Server, MS Office, XSLT, JSON, SOAP UI.

Project 3:

Client: BCBSAL, Birmingham, AL                                                                                                        Jan’13 - Oct’13

Role: Full Stack Java Developer

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

·          Involved in Agile Standup meetings throughout project with team on day to day basis. 

·         Actively participated in Analysis, Design, Development and Testing phases of various modules. 

·         Developed UML class diagrams, sequence and use case diagrams using Rational Rose. 

·         Worked on J2EE design patterns like DAO, Front Controller, Session Façade, Factory Pattern and Singleton. 

·         Worked on OOPs, Collections, Exception handling & Multi-Threading using Core Java. 

·         Extensively used Spring MVC architecture for the application development. 

·         Developed application service components and configured beans using Spring IOC. 

·         Involved in creating the Hibernate POJO Objects and mapped using Hibernate Annotations. 

·         Used Hibernate, object/relational-mapping (ORM) solution, technique of mapping data representation from MVC model to Oracle Relational data model with a SQL-based schema. 

·         Created the spring Application Context for initializing services. 

·         Created Request transformer, Response transformers, Custom Components and configured them in Mule-config.xml.  

·         Developed and tested REST based web services.

·         Worked on Database queries using Oracle instance. 

·         Used JAXB to convert XML content into a Java Object. 

·         Involved in unit testing, test case & code reviews with applicable development standards. 

·         Involved in integration system testing and user acceptance testing (UAT).

·         Worked on Web deployments in DEV, QA and UAT environments. 

·         Supported the application whenever encountered production issues. 

·         Deployed application in WebLogic Application server. 

Environment: Java1.6, JSP, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, Apache CXF Framework, REST Web services, JAXB, Oracle - SQL & PL/SQL, Linux, Shell scripting, WinSCP3, log4J, Maven, SVN, WebLogic Server, Eclipse.

 

Project 4:

Client: Happiest Minds, Pune, India                                                                                                    Mar’10 – Dec’12

Role: J2EE Developer

                                                                                                               

Roles & Responsibilities:

·          Designed, Developed and analyzed the frond-end and back-end using JSP, Servlets and Struts.

·         Successfully managed sub-group of three junior developers and helped each member equally to accomplish their task for developing flawless modules. 

·         Involved in study of User Requirement Specification.

·         Requested insufficient information and helped clearing ambiguity in requirements document. 

·         Involved in the Analysis and Design of the system. 

·         Designed system patterns like Abstract Factory, Front Controller, Business delegate, Session Façade, and DAO in designing the system. 

·         Implemented MVC Architecture using Struts Framework. 

·         Used commons Struts-Validator for validation of form fields. 

·         Robustly Validated queries through making significant changes in XML rule constraints and by addition-modification of rules. 

·         Developed client side interface and GUI with the help of XML using XSLT. 

·         Design and Development of software components like Interface, Action Handlers and Client side scripts using JAVA, JSP, and Java Script. 

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, Servlets, Struts, HTML5, HTML, CSS3, Java Script, XML, UML, UNIX, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, WebSphere.

Project 5:

Client: ICICI Prudential, Pune, India                                                                                                        Sep’09 - Feb’10

Role: Java Developer

                                                                                                               

Roles & Responsibilities:

·         Involved in product development for financial workflow systems for several groups in National Network Systems.

·         Designed the application using the J2EE design patterns such as Session Façade, Business Delegate, Service Locator, Value Object and Singleton.

·         Developed presentation tier as HTML, JSPs using Struts Framework. Used AJAX for faster page rendering.

·         Developed the middle tier using EJBs, Stateless Session Bean, Java Servlets.

·         Entity Beans used for accessing data from the Oracle 8i database.

·         Worked on Hibernate for data persistence.

·         Prepared high and low level design documents for the business modules for future references and updates.

·         Deployed the application in JBoss Application Server in development and production environment.

·         Implemented CVS as Version control system.

·         Code Walkthrough/ Test cases and Test Plans.

 

Environment: Java/J2EE, Struts, Tiles, EJB, JMS, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, JavaScript, Hibernate, JBoss Application Server, JUnit, Eclipse, Oracle8i, Windows NT and Linux.