Guidewire APD Technical Product Specialist

2 weeks ago


PhoenixAZN Norterra Pkwy, United States Cognizant Full time
About Cognizant

Cognizant is a leading professional services company that redefines clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era.

Technical Product Specialist Role

We are seeking a skilled Guidewire APD Technical Product Specialist to join our team of IT professionals in a permanent role. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Guidewire Suite of applications, Policy-Center with Advance Product Designer, and experience working with cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Plan inception/requirements workshops, prioritize requirements for sprints, and demonstrate out-of-the-box product capabilities.
  • Conduct requirements workshops by working directly with business subject matter experts to capture requirements.
  • Create user-stories, use cases, functional requirements, wireframes, system flow diagrams, and other documentation for Guidewire configurations and integrations.
  • Review and analyze how changes to business processes and needs impact technical requirements throughout Guidewire applications and downstream integrations.
  • Clarify requirements prior to delivery of user-stories to the Development team.
  • Act as a liaison between functional leads, development teams, and support teams.
  • Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions during the UAT phase.
  • Perform smoke testing and work with the QA team to ensure test cases are current, accurate, and cover alternative paths for existing and new system functionality.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
  • Expert knowledge of Guidewire Suite of applications, Policy-Center with Advance Product Designer.
  • Experience with Xmind, configuration of products using mindmaps on Xmind, and Product Management in Guidewire APD.
  • Knowledge of functional areas of the insurance business to understand customer requirements and provide Guidewire solutions.
  • Knowledgeable about integrations with internal and external applications, research dependencies, and work on system design plans with solution architects and developers.
  • Hands-on experience with one or more Guidewire products: Customer Engage, Producer 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 to document requirements, user-stories, defects for development teams.
  • Experience working daily in cross-functional teams.
  • Skilled at negotiating consensus among departments with conflicting or inconsistent software requirements.
Salary and Benefits

The annual salary for this position is between $66,000–$132,000 depending on experience and qualifications.

This role is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program based on performance and subject to applicable plans.

Cognizant offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) plan, long-term and short-term disability, paid parental leave, and an employee stock purchase plan.


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