About Us: Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, redefining clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our outstanding industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com. Cognizant Technology Solutions is looking for "Sr. Manage - Guidewire APD" to join the team of IT professionals in a permanent role. If you meet our background requirements and skills and are looking for an opportunity with these skills and expertise, here is the ideal opportunity for you! Education Details: BS or Equivalent Job Location: Cost Mesa, CA (Hybrid) Job Description: Plan inception/requirements workshop schedule, prioritize requirements for sprints, demonstrate OOTB product, identify gaps and provide OOTB solutions. Conduct Requirements workshops by directly working with business SME's in capturing requirements. Create user-stories, use cases, functional requirements, wireframes, system flow diagrams, and other documentation for Guidewire configurations and Integrations requirements. Review and analyze how changes to the business process and / or business needs will impact technical requirements throughout the GW applications and other downstream integrations. Clarify requirements prior to delivery of user-stories to the Development team. Be the liaison between functional leads, development teams and support teams. Support UAT (User Acceptance Testing) sessions during UAT phase. Support production releases Perform smoke testing Work with the QA team to ensure test cases are current, accurate, and cover alternative paths for existing and new system functionality. Required Skills Expert knowledge on Guidewire Suite of application Policy-Center with Advance Product Designer. Knowledge on Xmind, configuration of products using mind maps on Xmind, Product Management in Guidewire APD. Knowledge on functional areas of the Insurance business to understand customer requirements and provide GW Solutions. Knowledgeable on integrations with internal and external applications; research any dependencies and work on system design plan with solution architect and developers. For Digital portals : Hands-on experience in one or more products: Customer Engage, Producer Engage, Customer Engage, GPA, AMP, Claims portal Detailed knowledge and experience of agile methodologies. Skilled at writing detailed user-stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, and wireframes. Strong background using defect-ticketing software (such as Rally, JIRA, etc.) to document requirements, user-stories, defects for development teams. Experience working daily in cross-functional teams. Skilled at negotiating consensus among departments that request sometimes conflicting or inconsistent software requirements. Applications will be accepted until December 25th ,2024 Salary and Other Compensation: The annual salary for this position is between $88,6900– $155,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans. Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off 401(k) plan and contributions Long-term/Short-term Disability Paid Parental Leave Employee Stock Purchase Plan Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law