Souvik Samanta

Lead Software Developer @ Stratus

About

Over 8+ years of working experience in Guidewire Configuration, Integration, and Leading teams for strategic delivery across large-scale P&C and Mortgage Insurance applications in USA, Canada, and India which includes Policy and Claims processing. Primary Skills: Guidewire Cloud, Integration, Configuration - Policy Center, and Claim Center 1. Configuration - pcfs, gosu, rules, validations, JobProcess, etc 2. Policy Centre Rating – internal and external rating engines. 3. Guidewire Integration - In-suite, Messaging, Plugin, Batch, WorkQueue, API, etc Roles & Responsibilities: 1. Attend grooming with Business SMEs and understand Business needs. Materialize requirements. 2. Design solutions, develop/fix user stories/defects, and complete unit testing. 3. Managing delivery pipeline between multiple code repositories and Code Promotion for release. 4. Agile AMS Planning and Coordination – Sprint Planning & Daily Scrum meetings. 5. Analyzing and translating business requirements into technical requirements to design architectural patterns.

Country

Canada

City

Toronto

Industry

Insurance

Skill

Teamwork, Analytical Skills, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), CSS Sprites, HTML, Jira, Guidewire Configuration, Policy Center, Claim Center, Guidewire Integration, Guidewire Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Guidewire, Agile Methodologies, Core Java, SQL, Java, Jenkins, Git

Experience

Lead Software Developer

Stratus

2024-2 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1. Development lead, managing team, taking ownership to meet the delivery timeline 2. Develop user stories and features for Personal and Commercial Line of Business. 3. Analyze and fix Production incidents/defects 4. Attending grooming with the Business Analyst and understanding Business needs. Materialize requirements for Guidewire. 5. Perform code review, develop user story/defects, and unit testing for different PolicyCenter features. 6. Managing team, supporting development and analysis of tasks assigned to the team, focusing seamless delivery. 7. Taking Ownership, managing the team to meet the delivery timeline and coding standards.

Software Engineer

Travelers Canada

2023-8 - 2024-2 · 7 mos

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Senior Consultant

Capgemini

2022-6 - 2023-8 · 1 yr 3 mos

Canada

1. Attend grooming with Business SMEs and understand Business needs. Materialize requirements for Guidewire Policy Center. 2. Design solutions, develop user story/defects and complete unit testing. 3. Develop and test Guidewire work queue & batch process integration using AutoSys. batch and Informatica. 4. Analyze and develop policy configuration & rating for Personal Auto, Home and Umbrella LOBs. 5. Managing delivery pipeline between multiple code repositories and Code Promotion for release. 6. Release planning with Analysts and Product Owners, Understand requirements, identify impacts and develop.

Consultant

Capgemini

2018-1 - 2020-6 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Canada

1. Understand business requirements and implement solutions on Guidewire Policy Center and ClaimCenter. 2. Analyze and develop configuration and integration user stories/defects in guidewire v08 and v10 Dobson. 3. Manage Policy and Claim configuration for multiple LOBs like- Personal Auto, Home, Farm, Farm Package, garage, and Commercial Property. 4. Analyze and fix EdgeAPI for Guidewire Agent Portal and Guidewire In-suite Integration, MVR, VIN, SOLAR, EventFired-Data mapping - Request/Transport/Reply Plugin and Doc Management. 5. Manage code proportion and deployment on multiple environments over Guidewire On-prem and SAAS infra. 6. Planning and Distribution of user stories between Onshore and Offshore teams. Provide solutions and manage team to perform seamless delivery.