Position: Senior Business Analyst
Company: Luxoft
Category: Business Analyst
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

We provide Consulting, Cloud services, Desktop support, Application Modernization, Development and Maintenance services for the customer.. The customer is working with us collaboratively for migrating the Underwriting applications from legacy to new modernized platform for Quoting, Binding and Issuing the policies. This entire program is driven by Agile methodology and products / LOBs are being implemented incrementally for next 5 years. Guidewire product is used primarily for the new platform. Customization and re-engineering of the interface applications is also part of the program scope. We in collaboration with customer are investing for the long term to build the new Underwriting platform that will fuel the revenue growth.

 Underwriting Management (UM) web application developed using Guidewire product. The tool uses Java as coding language. In turn UM application uses many other frameworks like XML, Mavan, Spring framework, JBOSS and etc.

UM application uses GIT as a code repository and UM uses JIRA for sprint release plans.

First product is planned to be deployed in September 2021

The identified team members will be trained on Guidewire tool.

Agile model. not more than 250 hrs. >250 project backlogs. Jira deployed.

Support and enhancement work

Learn and grow with some of the best experts in the industry

Contribute to technically diverse (platforms: Unix, Containerization, Java, Salesforce, Pega), highly scalable, open source technologies and hacker friendly projects

Work with a high-growth, publicly traded company (with over 500 employees in 11 years)

Join a friendly, culturally diverse team and clients, where people value excellence, team spirit, passion, courage, pragmatism and accountability.
Responsibilities:
Identify and/or review high level business requirements coming from Product Managers and detail them in the form of user stories;
Support decision making with data analysis
Manage product backlog (building, prioritization);
Participate in peer review sessions (requirements specifications, system design)
Participate in release and iteration planning;
Work together with development team(s) in a role of proxy product owner;
Assist the team with understanding of requirements in particular during estimation meetings; ensure that specifications are unambiguous;
Review acceptance test specifications and occasionally perform acceptance testing of the developed functionality
Evaluate information systems functionality to identify gaps;
Assist senior managers in identifying problems or opportunities that might be addressed to the software system;

Mandatory Skills Description:
7+ years of overall experience.
4+ years of experience in the role of functional analyst / Business Analyst
Experience in the creation of use cases, user stories, and experience in working with direct customer
Good verbal and written communication. Client communication (written/spoken) to understand and clarify requirements.
Team player who can work effectively in a team environment
Ability to understand and improve business processes, development processes and to be customer-focused
Sound knowledge of Insurance domain