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Abhijit Sahoo

Toronto,ON

Summary

A certified Guidewire Developer having over 13 years of experience in web-based application development. Working knowledge of P&C insurance model. Experience in Guidwire policyCenter/ClaimCenter applications, Java/J2EE, SOA. Extensive experience of complete SDLC including requirement gathering from business/client, analysis and solution architecture, technical design, development, integration and QA handling. 8+ Years of experience in on-site offshore model as technical lead and managed technical teams. Experienced in both WaterFall and Agile methodology. Experience in unit, integration and regression testing, defect tracking. Experience in post-production support activities. Strong communication & relationship management skills, enthusiastic & self-driven with high degree of commitment and team player. Experience working at client locations in Canada and USA.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

GuideWire Lead/Senior Manager

Capgemini America Inc
10.2022 - Current

Client Name: Hartford Insurance ( Commercial Property and General Liability LOB)

Project Name: Middle And Large Commercial Enhancement Program

Working as Config lead at Hartford Insurance client to build and design new PCFs, Making product model changes, WorkFlows, Guidwire message queues and Batches GW rating engine related changes

Responsibilities:

  • Designed, Coordinated, Developed and Delivered guidewire related changes for PolicyCenter
  • Conducted session to review Configuration specification.
  • Interact with other internal IT teams (including client, onshore and offshore) to complete project initiatives.
  • Successfully managed high volumes of client-facing interactions.
  • Set overall vision and provided team leadership.
  • Managed 10 onshore/offshore resource and ensured code reviews and code are of highest quality.
  • Build and Deploy code to all environments

Guidewire Integration Lead/Manager

Capgemini America Inc.
10.2021 - 10.2022

Client Name: Hartford Insurance

Project Name: COMPASS Data Migration

Working as a Guidewire Integration Lead at Hartford Insurance to build and migrate multiple LOBs( Package, General Liability, Commercial Property, Umbrella and Auto) from their existing legacy systems to Guidewire 10.0

Responsibilities:

  • Designed, Coordinated, Developed and Delivered 5+ products to their newly set up guidewire application. Helped building 15+ major integrations to guidewire frontend.
  • Planned integrated sprint plan, estimated work, Coordinated Build and Deploy, Defect Triage and fix.
  • Conducted session to review integration specification and high-level design document with Solution Architects.
  • Successfully managed high volumes of batch runs.
  • Set overall vision and provided team leadership.
  • Managed 4 offshore resource and ensured code reviews and code are of highest quality.
  • Built, managed and coached insourced and outsourced teams.

Technical Delivery Lead/Associate Manager

Ernst And Young Canada
03.2019 - 09.2021

Client Name: Insurance Corporation Of British Columbia

Project Name: Autoplan Care Enhancement

Working as Technical Delivery Lead at ICBC to build new Personal And Commercial Auto line business segments. This new system will be developed using Guidewire Products and Agency Portal as front end to Implement advanced functionality such as Account Creation, Agent Quoting, Underwriter review system, Quote Proposal, Quote Issuance. It is a vast system Integrating with 40+ web services and Guidewire for Policy Center, Billing Center and Claim Center.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide technical guidance to identify gaps in out of box functionality and assess complexity of changes during solution validation phase.
  • Complete end to end technical delivery of Guidewire PolicyCenter/ClaimCenter.
  • Support management of scope, work estimate, preparing integrated sprint plan and schedule of AgencyPortal, policycenter/ClaimCenter work stream.
  • Design, develop and unit testing of technical solution using policycenter/ClaimCenter products.
  • Communicate and coordinate with onshore/offshore teams and client as required to deliver effectively.
  • Set overall vision and provided team leadership.
  • Conduct session to review integration specification and high-level design document with Solution Architects.
  • Understanding and working from business requirement documentation (use case, UML and traditional software application).
  • Defect triage and providing fix for defects.

Senior Guidewire Developer

Ernst And Young Canada
03.2018 - 02.2019

Client Name: Insurance Corporation Of British Columbia

Project Name: RAAPR ( Rating Enhancement)

As part of this implementation the plan is to implement guidewire rating engine by redesigning the existing duck creek framework

Responsibilities:

  • Designed, Coordinated, Developed and Delivered 15+ end to end Guidewire integration for Auto lob.
  • Partnering with accenture team to understand the existing architecture and plan/prepare/document gaps that will be need to resolve before migrating to guidwire rating engine.
  • working on performance issues with the help of OOTB provided GW profiler tool and also taking advantage of advanced profiling tool like OpNet
  • Managed 5 offshore resources to deliver highest quality of code

Senior Guidewire Developer

Ernst And Young Canada
12.2014 - 01.2018

Client Name: Insurance Corporation of British Columbia

Project Name: ISAS

Working as integration Developer for ICBC client to build replacement for their legacy Web insurance quoting system (Rite price) for Auto LOB business segments (Auto, Home and Package). This New Quoting System was built using Guidewire Products and J2EE technologies to Implement advanced functionality such as Account Creation, Agent Quoting, Underwriter review system, Quote Proposal, Quote Issuance. It is vast system Integrating with 40+ web services and Guidewire for Policy Center, Billing Center and Claim Center.

Responsibilities:

  • Designed, Coordinated, Developed and Delivered end to end policyCenter Implementation for Auto LOB with integration to 40+ new/legacy webservices
  • Developed multiple new batches, workflows and worked on many of the new integrations like document management, fraud management,claim management
  • worked closely with offshore developers to deliver highest quality product in timely manner
  • work with deployment team for smoke testing and code merge initiatives.
  • Work with ESB and Data Management team on data mappings and store procedures

Senior Java-J2EE Developer

Aricent Technologies ( Now Capgemini India )
06.2012 - 09.2014

Client Name: Verizon Telecom

Project Name: Virtual Inventory

VI(virtual Inventory) Web application is for creation and workflow management of all type of telecom equipment. The equipment details are provided by the ordering systems. The system mainly used by retail ordering and assurance team. Each of them uses web services to communicate with VI

Responsibilities:

  • Analyzed requirements and designed class diagrams, sequence diagrams using UML and prepared high level technical documents.
  • Designed and developed UI screens JSF (MVC) to provide interactive screens to display data.
  • Defined WSDLs and created web services.
  • Developed business logic layer.
  • Implemented Hibernate to persist data in persistence layer.
  • Used Jasper report generator for generating reports in PDF formats.
  • Used Maven automated build scripts to compile and package application and implemented Log4j.
  • Involved in documentation,review,analysis.
  • Maintained production and test systems.
  • Worked on fixing post production issues and enhancements on change requests.
  • Performed unit testing, integration testing and regression testing.

Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer

Medal Software
08.2010 - 05.2012

Client- D-Mobile Srilanka

Project Name : D-Candy

Responsibilities:

  • Analyzed FRD and prepare technical design document.
  • Performed technical design reviews.
  • End to end product development with JSF, Dozer, Webservices, Hibernate.
  • Defined WSDL and created webservices.
  • Wrote business logic layer and persistence layer.
  • Performed unit testing and integration testing.
  • Involved in release bug fixes.

Education

Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science

Biju Pattnaik University of Technology
Balasore | Odisha | India
2010

Skills

  • Guidewire PolicyCenter
  • Guidewire ClaimCenter
  • Guidewire AgencyPort, CustomerPort Framework
  • Java/J2ee
  • Hibernate
  • JMS, AWS SQS
  • XML, SOAP, REST, WSDL, XSD, HTML, JSON
  • SQL Server
  • SVN, Git
  • Tomcat, IBM WebSphere Application Server

Accomplishments

  • Guidewire PC Configuration Specialist - 10.0 (up to date with latest version)
  • Guidewire PC Integration Specialist -10.0 (up to date with latest version)
  • Guidewire Certified Associated (up to date with latest version)

Timeline

GuideWire Lead/Senior Manager

Capgemini America Inc
10.2022 - Current

Guidewire Integration Lead/Manager

Capgemini America Inc.
10.2021 - 10.2022

Technical Delivery Lead/Associate Manager

Ernst And Young Canada
03.2019 - 09.2021

Senior Guidewire Developer

Ernst And Young Canada
03.2018 - 02.2019

Senior Guidewire Developer

Ernst And Young Canada
12.2014 - 01.2018

Senior Java-J2EE Developer

Aricent Technologies ( Now Capgemini India )
06.2012 - 09.2014

Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer

Medal Software
08.2010 - 05.2012

Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science

Biju Pattnaik University of Technology
Abhijit Sahoo