Guidewire PolicyCenter Production Support Business Analyst – P&C Insurance

About The Job:

• Shift: 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM
• We are looking for an experienced Specialty Business Analyst (BA) with strong knowledge of the Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance domain to support production incident management and application support activities.
• The BA will take ownership of functional analysis, triage, investigation, and coordination of production incidents, reducing the incident-management workload currently handled by the existing BA team.
• The role requires the ability to understand insurance business processes, analyze application and data issues, and work closely with Development, QA, Operations, and business stakeholders to drive incidents through resolution
• Experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter and/or Specialty Insurance Administration systems is highly desirable.

Essential Job Functions:
Incident Management & Production Support

• Take ownership of incidents raised against P&C insurance applications and perform initial triage, impact assessment, and functional analysis.
• Investigate production issues to identify whether the underlying cause relates to business process, configuration, data, integration, application functionality, or a software defect.
• Reproduce reported issues and document clear findings, business scenarios, expected versus actual system behavior, and supporting evidence.
• Resolve functional or process-related incidents wherever possible without requiring Development team involvement.
• Escalate genuine application defects to the Development team with sufficient analysis and documentation to enable efficient resolution.
• Work with Development and QA teams throughout the incident lifecycle, providing business and functional clarification as required.
• Track incidents through investigation, remediation, testing, and closure while ensuring agreed SLA and priority requirements are met.
• Identify recurring incidents and support root-cause analysis and problem-management activities to reduce repeat production issues.
• Maintain incident knowledge articles, troubleshooting documentation, known-error information, and support procedures.

P&C / Specialty Insurance Business Analysis

• Apply strong understanding of Property & Casualty insurance processes, particularly policy administration and the insurance policy lifecycle.
• Analyze incidents and change requests across processes such as quote, bind, issue, endorsement, renewal, cancellation, reinstatement, and policy servicing.
• Understand insurance concepts including insureds, risk/exposure, coverage, limits, deductibles, premiums, underwriting rules, rating, forms, and policy transactions.
• Work with business and underwriting stakeholders to understand reported issues and translate business problems into clear functional requirements or technical inputs.
• Perform impact analysis for proposed fixes and minor enhancements, including downstream and integration impacts.
• Support functional validation and UAT of incident fixes and production changes.

Stakeholder & Delivery Coordination

• Act as the functional bridge between business users, Operations/Support teams, QA, and Development teams.
• Communicate incident status, business impact, dependencies, risks, and resolution progress to relevant stakeholders.
• Participate in incident review, defect triage, root-cause analysis, and production-support meetings.
• Coordinate effectively with geographically distributed onshore and offshore teams.
• Ensure appropriate handover and knowledge transfer to strengthen the overall incident-management capability.

Qualifications:
Must Have Skills:

• Guidewire PolicyCenter
• Business Analysis in Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance
• Production Support
• Strong experience working as a Business Analyst in Property & Casualty Insurance environments.
• Hands-on experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter.
• Experience in Production Support, Incident Management, and Functional Analysis.
• Strong understanding of P&C insurance lifecycle processes and policy administration.
• Experience working with Development, QA, and Support teams in issue resolution.
• Knowledge of incident management, root-cause analysis, and SLA-driven support processes.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a production support environment.

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About VARITE:

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