Deloitte | Senior Associate | Guidewire BA | Hyderabad | Engineering as a Service/ Operate

Key responsibilities

• You act as a senior member within Agile teams, ensuring requirements are clear, testable, and aligned to Guidewire product capabilities, while adhering to Zurich standards and functional blueprints.
• This role focuses on strong execution, functional depth, and delivery of reliability, with growing ownership across run and change.
• Analyze business requirements across Guidewire platforms: Policy Center, Billing Center, Claim Center.
• Identify functional gaps, dependencies, and impacts across: Underwriting, Claims, Billing.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Business SMEs, Delivery leads.
• Contribute input to business cases and solution options.
• Ensure requirements align with agreed process models and product standards.
• Own the quality and readiness of assigned backlog items: User stories, Acceptance criteria, Non‑functional requirements.
• Ensure stories are: Complete, Unambiguous, Testable, Ready for development.
• Maintain traceability from business needs to delivered functionality.
• Act as the functional point of contact for story clarification during sprints.
• Collaborate closely with: Developers, Quality Engineers, Integration and release teams.
• Support testing activities including : Functional validation, Integration testing, UAT support.
• Support L2/L3 production incidents from a functional perspective.
• Assist with: Root‑cause analysis, Defect triage, Functional clarification for fixes.
• Ensure learnings from production issues are reflected into requirements and design.
• Contribute to reduced defect leakage and improved production stability.
• Identify opportunities to improve requirement quality, clarity, and delivery efficiency.
• Contribute to documentation and knowledge assets.
• Act as a role model for: Intermediate and Junior BSAs, New team members.
• Support onboarding, shadowing, and informal mentoring as required Required Qualifications / Must have: - 4–6+ years of experience as a Business Analyst / Business Systems Analyst in enterprise environments.

Requirements

• Strong hands‑on experience with Guidewire Insurance Suite.
• Solid understanding of P&C insurance business processes.
• Proven experience working in Agile delivery teams.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working across multi‑BU or shared‑service delivery models.
• Exposure to Guidewire Cloud transformations.
• Experience supporting production issues or run activities.

Deloitte

Deloitte is one of the Big Four professional services networks, offering audit and assurance, tax, consulting, financial advisory and risk advisory services. The firm traces its roots to William Welch Deloitte, who opened an accounting practice in London in 1845.

In India, Deloitte works through member firms such as Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP. Both are among the largest recruiters of chartered accountants for audit, tax, risk advisory, transactions and consulting roles.

• Industry: Audit, tax, consulting and advisory (Big Four)
• Headquarters: London, UK
• In India: Deloitte member firms in India with offices in major cities