Srinivasa Rao Katta

Client Name - USAA (The United Services Automobile Association)

Owned and prioritized product backlog.

• Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
• Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where, and when each component would work.
• Collaborated with development team on Auto Modernization Cloud migrations services and tasks.
• Analyzed customer feedback to identify areas for improvement.
• Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.
• Coordinated with software developers to create custom applications and trackers to achieve client goals.
• Worked with Core (Guidewire) and Non-core (API) teams to make sure downstream systems (like Data Mod, Billing, Forms and Financials) get the policy data in the form of payloads from Umbrella Guidewire system using integration views, Messaging architecture and Kafka messaging broker.

Client Name - Farmers Insurance Group

Strong Functional Knowledge & Experience in P&C (Property and Causality) Insurance Domain. AINS Certified from AICPCU

• Experienced in Guidewire PolicyCenter Configuration and Integration with cloud experience, additional knowledge of solid understanding, capturing business requirements, writing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and Functional Story Cards.
• Study existing integrations of Claims/Policy system and Peripheral systems (Financial, Document processing, Vendor, Reporting systems etc).
• Involved in Bug fixing and defect resolutions.
• Involved extensively in design of various Guidewire configurations like User Interface configuration (PCF's, Widgets, Data panels, Location Groups and UI helper classes), Jobs configuration (Job Wizards, Job workflows, Job rule sets), Class-based validations, Data Model, Product Model, Business Rules, Activity patterns, Workflows, Contingencies, Policy Rating management, Community model and Underwriting Authority.
• Very good experience on Guidewire Integration framework and various integration methods like Gosu Queries, Query API builder, RESTful Web services, Cloud API, REST Client, Plugins, Batch-processes, Messaging, Integration views and rating integration (Earnix pricing)

Client Name - Farmers Insurance Group

• Participate in application architecture, infrastructure and design.
• Assess the project ROM (Rough Order of Magnitude) or LOE (Level of Effort).
• Advise and coordinate each team’s technical activities.
• Ensure adherence to appropriate standards of technical best practice.
• Focus on team to ensure on-time delivery of the agreed requirements.
• Ensure testing and review activity is scheduled and done.
• Ensure iterative development process is properly focused and controlled.
• Take measures to avoid centralization of knowledge.