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RAVEENA GRACE THOMAS

Summary

With 8+ years of IT industry experience , a Senior Java Developer specializes in Guidewire Development spanning across design and development using J2EE technologies, Guidewire Policy Centre Configuration & Integration, Service Oriented Architecture and Database technologies. Brings on board hands-on experience in coordinating the software development lifecycle from the analysis stage to design, development, delivery, and maintenance. Adept at identifying bugs and prescribing solutions to increase efficiency of a product.

Passionate servant-leader, eager to contribute to team success in any role and a consistent team player with exemplary multi-tasking skills recognised by peers and seniors alike for a "team above self" mentality.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Configuration Developer

  • Center
  • Involved in Policy Centre Guidewire technologies, configuration and implementation
  • Involved in code and design of various Guidewire components such as PCF, batch jobs, dropdowns, validations
  • Monitored production error logs, root cause analysis and resolution
  • Performed database quality checks by checking database consistency, analysing DBCC queries
  • Coordinated with business teams to clarify requirements and business needs
  • Prepared unit test documents, managed defect tracking and closure through HP Quality Centre
  • Conducted knowledge transfer to the team for various projects
  • Managed resources on various tasks, collaborated in weekly meetings with onsite and offshore developers.

Senior Software Engineer

Implementation Consultant

Ogon Consulting
07.2022 - Current
  • Co-operative Insurance Project
  • Developed and implemented Guidewire InsuranceNow application enhancements for clients with success
  • Performed from project initiation to full customer product roll-out
  • Customize, configure and test the InsuranceNow application
  • Provide technical support and effort estimation related to Guidewire InsuranceNow configuration development requests
  • Propose solutions to improve business unit productivity and/or business results
  • Experience translating user functionality into system design work in an agile team, pair programming, and supporting results in production development on the InsuranceNow platform
  • Work as a technical developer on the project with responsibility for participating in the design, development and delivery of software components
  • Expertise in understanding the existing framework and working on enhancements to the basic functionality
  • Provide product scoping, discovery, hands-on technical input and help translate user requirements into system design
  • Receive and provide feedback in code reviews and contribute to their development
  • Work with the User Experience team to deliver a great user experience
  • Work within the Scrum team to understand requirements and possible implementation options
  • Participate in the analysis of the existing framework and suggest improvements for coding best practices
  • Involved in gathering requirements, analyzing the existing framework and coordinating the onsite offshore team to resolve the tickets
  • Involved in fixing critical defects that were show stoppers in a limited time window
  • Involved in unit testing and documentation review.

Java FullStack Developer

Devji Systems SPC
05.2021 - 10.2022
  • JiVA Application
  • Developed end to end web application using J2EE, Servlets and Hibernate
  • Expertise in Spring framework, extensively used Spring MVC, Spring DAO, Spring JDBC templates, Dependency Injection, Annotations
  • Provided assistance in all aspects of software development, including product design and maintenance
  • Developed web interfaces using HTML, CSS and jQuery
  • Applied advanced approaches including MVC patterns, jQuery and JSON
  • Knowledge of jQGrid library (jQuery plugin) for displaying and manipulating tabular data
  • Experience with iReport tool for report design and generation
  • Involved in requirements gathering, unit and regression testing
  • Expertise in session storage, local storage
  • Conducted working sessions to understand customer requirements and worked on architecture and development from end to end
  • Integrated Google Analytics with the application to collect data and generate reports
  • Worked on Magento integration with Java application.

Associate Consultant

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Mercury Insurance project
11.2018 - 11.2020

Integration Developer

Capgemini
12.2015 - 10.2018
  • Policy Center
  • Responsible for the development and testing of the Policy Centre Administration Guidewire implementation framework
  • Experience in Policy Centre production support, development and enhancement of existing frameworks on various projects
  • Hands on experience with batch processing, event fired rules, messaging in Policy Centre
  • Experience in implementing web services in Gosu and consuming web services from external systems
  • Supported maintenance team through troubleshooting and daily stand-up calls
  • Participated in sprint planning meeting to come up with activities for the project
  • Worked extensively with QA team to coordinate testing and automation cycles
  • Prepared system test plans to ensure Software Quality Assurance (SQA) standards were met and validated that business objectives were met.

Education

B. Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering

Kerala University
2015

Skills

  • Technical Skills
  • Programming:
  • Java, C, SQL,Gosu
  • Web Technologies:
  • J2EE ,SOAP, Web Services ,JSP
  • WebUserInterface: JavaScript, jQuery, jqGrid, HTML, CSS
  • Database: H2, IBM DB2
  • Tools/Utilities: Eclipse IDE, Oracle SQL Developer, Toad and Guidewire studio
  • Configuration: Tortoise SVN
  • Web & Application Servers: Web Logic and Tomcat, VMWare
  • Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

Timeline

Implementation Consultant

Ogon Consulting
07.2022 - Current

Java FullStack Developer

Devji Systems SPC
05.2021 - 10.2022

Associate Consultant

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Mercury Insurance project
11.2018 - 11.2020

Integration Developer

Capgemini
12.2015 - 10.2018

Configuration Developer

Senior Software Engineer

B. Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering

Kerala University

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