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What You Can Find on Udemy (and What to Look For)

There aren’t any official Guidewire courses, but you may still utilize Udemy to get ready by acquiring skills that will help you in Guidewire jobs, like: For Guidewire Developers: 🎯 Learn Java (Gosu is built on Java)

Classes:

Tim Buchalka’s Java Programming Masterclass

Java for Beginners: Start Learning Java from Scratch

Why: Gosu has 80–90% of the same syntax as Java.

Learn about APIs and web services

Testing a REST API with Postman or SoapUI

SOAP and REST Java Web Services

Why: Guidewire employs both REST and SOAP to connect different systems.

For Guidewire QA/Testers: Learn how to use Selenium or API Automation.

Java and Selenium WebDriver

Testing Postman and REST APIs

Using JMeter to Test Performance

Learn the Basics of Software Testing

Tools for Manual Testing, Agile, and JIRA

📊 For Business Analysts and Functional Roles: 📚 Learn the Basics of Insurance

Principles of Insurance or Insurance 101 (different authors)

Agile/Scrum for Business Analysts

Writing UML and Use Cases

📌 How to Find Skills on Udemy That Are Useful

These are the words you should use:

“Java for Newbies”
“Gosu programming” (very few, primarily indirect) and “REST API testing”
“Basics of insurance”
“Selenium with Java”
“Agile Teams Use JIRA”

🔐 What if you want to really use Guidewire?

You have two major options: 1. Become a Guidewire Partner Company:

After hiring, companies like Cognizant, Infosys, Capgemini, and Accenture train their own employees. They will let you in on:

Guidewire Learning Portal (GLP)

Guidewire Studio

Environments for sandboxes

2. Use self-guided learning (free and paid)

You can ask me for:

Some Gosu exercises

Mock scenarios for setting up Guidewire

Walkthroughs of the entity model

“Build a Claim FNOL workflow” is an example of a mini-project.

✍️ Last tip: Use Udemy and guided practice together.

Use Udemy to learn the basics of technology, like Java, testing, and insurance, and let me be your Guidewire coach. I can:

Make up interview situations

Take you through the rationale of PolicyCenter

Help write Gosu snippets and business rules for integration