SUMMARY

• 9 years 9 months of experience in analysis, design, development and testing in J2EE related applications.
• Currently working in Guidewire - Confidential Insurance Product for 4 plus years.
• Worked in Onsite U.S.A for 40 months before and effectively managed and Co-Ordinated onsite/offshore teams with team size ranging from 3-5.
• Worked extensively with Java, J2EE technologies including JSP, Servlets, and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB).
• Have strong knowledge of Webservices, SOAP and have successfully implemented in real time.
• Possess high degree of excellence in WebSphere Application Server and Rational suite of Products viz.Requisite Pro, RAD, Multisite Rational Clearcase, and Rational XDE.
• Participated in training on EMC suite of products from EMC document Sciences.
• Extensive knowledge in Insurance domain both in Life and Property Insurance (Policy, Claims).
• Possess the ability to do requirement study, analyze high-level business requirements and identify the relevant functional and technical requirements for web based Technologies.
• Worked with various insurance clients such as MetLife Insurance, Mercury, and Hartford Insurance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Java, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, Gosu

Technologies: Java, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Struts, JNDI, JMS, JDBCHibernate, XML, SAX APIs, SOAP, DOM APIsDesign Patterns

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere, Weblogic, Tomcat

Operating Systems: Windows

Databases: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server

Open Source: Apache, Log4j, Ant, Hibernate, ORM, JBossFrame Works J2EE Design Patterns, Jakarta-Struts and Spring MVC

IDE: Guidewire Studio, RAD, Eclipse, STS, WebSphere Studio Application

Version Control System: SVN, Multi-site Rational Clearcase, Star Team, Visual Source Safe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Policy/Document Management Lead

Technologies: Guidewire Claim Center 7.0, Oracle 11g, Apache Tomcat 6.0, Weblogic

Responsibilities:

• Working as theme lead in the project while managing and communicating with Offshore team (size of 8 members).
• Working on Document Management configuration/integration maintenance changes as well as production support.
• Worked on app configuration changes for FNOL, Policy, and Exposure screen.
• Worked on inbound/outbound integration with Policy systems according to client’s requirements.
• Helped other team members in the project if they are facing any technical issues in application integration and configuration side.
• Assigning tasks to the team members in sprint preplanning and giving estimates for the Change Requests and some other new requirements which came up during requirements gathering.
• Prepared Technical Specification document before start of coding.
• Done Peer review for the user stories which are assigned to our team members.
• Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Bug Fixing and defect resolution.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all facets of AGILE - application development in each SPRINT from system design, implementation, maintenance, support, testing and also proficient in documentation.
• Played pivotal role in development and integrated Guidewire application with ISO application through webservice successfully.
• Worked on mutiple configuration and screen development activities within Guidewire Confidential application.
• Have worked with teams configuring and managing Tivoli Work Scheduler for batch processing and possess extensive, advanced specialized knowledge of Guidewire product tools and technologies.
• Has good knowledge in insurance business process and has worked extensively in many application development tools and utilities.
• Analyzed complex technical situations, generates alternatives, and identifies the best technical solutions on project integration and enhancements, and effective estimation of activities based on each sprint requirements.

Confidential

Onsite Coordinator/Lead/Developer

Technologies: Websphere 5.1, 6.1,WSAD 5.1, 6.1, IBM's RAD 7.0, 8.0, DB2 Command Center,(DB2 UDB 8.1), Advanced Query Tool(AQT), Query Tool, Win SQL, Aqua Data Studio, DB Visualizer,SOAP UI

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all facets of application development from system design, implementation, maintenance, support, testing and also proficient in documentation
• Architected, designed and implemented critical business applications in J2EE with Service Oriented Architecture and has good knowledge in insurance business process and has worked extensively in many application development tools and utilities.
• Performing the role of an Onsite Team lead for 19 months with excellence in client-facing skills and technical skills
• Have configured and managed Tivoli Work Scheduler for batch processing and possess extensive, advanced specialized knowledge of EMC Vendor product tools and technologies
• Discussing with EMC vendor for any technical enhancements to the EMC products such as xPression, xDesign, xRevise.Troubleshooting and fixing high priority defects in development, maintenance phase of the project. Performed Code Deployment in Dev, QA, Staging and Production environments

Developer

Confidential

Technologies: WSAD 5.1,DB2 Development Center, DB2 Command Center, Advanced Query Tool (AQT), Query Tool, WinSQL

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for component level requirements analysis, design, code and test using different techniques, concepts and methods.
• Understanding of business requirements and identify the relevant functional and technical requirements
• Creating design documents, creation of Proof of Concepts and prototypes and to prepare and review technical design, wherever applicable.
• Responsible for Conducting Unit testing, assist in system testing, set up environment and data, creation of test plan documents and to prepare test strategy document and also to conduct peer reviews during design, coding and testing.
• Lead three to five member team for more than 2 years and ensure that the quality of deliverables at on time with least number of defects in the testing phase
• Created build scripts using Ant to automate build process, leading to speedy deployment.
• Offshore and Onsite co-ordination during the Requirements Analysis, Development & Testing Phase