Guidewire Business Analyst

Location: Montreal

# Guidewire Business Analyst Montreal Hybrid Agility  and Product Management Apply With  over 30 years of recognized expertise, COFOMO is now a leading Canadian consulting firm specializing in digital and artificial intelligence. Supported by more than 3,000 experts, 10 Centers of Excellence, and 4 offices across the country, we are uniquely positioned to successfully guide our clients through their transformations.

Both strategic and tactical, we help organizations across a wide range of industries thrive in today’s rapidly evolving world.## Our promise

Help our clients succeed and maximize the impact of their transformation initiatives, turning them into powerful drivers of growth and innovation.## Job description
** Here's a brief overview of the tasks and responsibilities you'll have :*
* • Act as an intermediary between business and technology teams to collect, analyze and document business and functional needs;

• Participate in business process analysis and recommend solutions to improve operational efficiency and business value;

• Translate business needs into user stories, business rules, functional specifications and other deliverables necessary to achieve solutions;

• Prepare impact analyses, process diagrams and functional documentation supporting the design and delivery of solutions;

• Collaborate with developers, quality specialists, architectural consultants and business partners to ensure a common understanding of needs and solutions;

• Contribute to the analysis, design, planning, and implementation of Guidewire solutions;

• Define test cases and support functional validation and user acceptance activities;

• Follow up on incidents, evolution requests and functional issues in collaboration with the teams concerned;

• Support the resolution of production issues and support users when required;

• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to the continuous improvement of processes, practices and delivery methods.

** The profile you are looking for is as follows:*
* • Bachelor's degree in administration, computer science, information systems or a relevant discipline;

• Have a minimum of eight (8) years of relevant experience in business analysis or functional analysis, including five years as a systems business analyst with the Guidewire platform;

• Experience in the field of property and casualty insurance;

• Proficient in collecting, analyzing and documenting business and functional requirements;

• Write user stories, functional specifications, business rules and impact analyses;

• Be familiar with Agile delivery approaches as well as the preparation and execution of functional and user acceptance tests;

• Hold Guidewire ACE certification;

• Possess an advanced level of English due to the nature of the tasks, work tools or interactions with English-speaking partners, members or clienteles;

• Knowledge of application integration concepts as well as REST, SOAP, XML and JSON technologies;

• Master business processes in damage insurance;

• Use collaboration and management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Visio, and the Microsoft Office suite;

• Learn about the underwriting, billing or claims processes for damage insurance.