This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Min Experience: 5+ years
Location: Remote
JobType: full-time
We are seeking a detail-oriented Guidewire QA Engineer to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of Guidewire InsuranceSuite applications. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in software testing and quality assurance, with a strong understanding of Guidewire PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, and BillingCenter.
The role involves validating application configurations, business rules, workflows, and integrations through comprehensive testing activities. The candidate will collaborate with developers, business analysts, and business stakeholders to identify defects, verify fixes, and deliver high-quality insurance technology solutions.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
1. Test Planning and Execution
- Develop, maintain, and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts for Guidewire applications.
- Perform functional, integration, regression, system, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Validate Guidewire InsuranceSuite implementations, including PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, and BillingCenter.
- Analyse business and technical requirements to design comprehensive test scenarios and ensure adequate test coverage.
- Execute test cases and document results to verify that applications meet functional and business requirements.
2. Guidewire Application Testing
- Validate Guidewire configurations, business rules, workflows, and application functionality.
- Test end-to-end business processes across relevant Guidewire modules.
- Verify data accuracy and consistency across application components and integrated systems.
- Identify potential issues affecting application functionality, usability, and reliability.
- Support testing activities throughout the Guidewire implementation and release lifecycle.
3. API and Integration Testing
- Perform API testing for Guidewire integrations using tools such as Postman, SOAP UI, or equivalent platforms.
- Validate REST and SOAP-based services and ensure reliable communication between integrated applications.
- Verify data exchange, integration behaviour, and error handling across systems.
- Collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot integration failures and validate fixes.
4. Defect Management and Quality Assurance
- Identify, document, track, and retest defects using tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, or ALM.
- Perform root cause analysis in collaboration with developers and technical teams.
- Participate in defect triage and ensure issues are resolved within agreed timelines.
- Prepare test execution reports, defect summaries, and quality metrics.
- Recommend improvements to testing processes, test coverage, and overall software quality.
5. Test Automation and Continuous Improvement
- Support test automation initiatives and identify opportunities to automate repetitive testing activities.
- Work with automation frameworks and tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or TestNG.
- Contribute to continuous quality improvement and efficient regression testing.
- Support integration of testing activities with CI/CD pipelines where applicable.
6. Agile Collaboration
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Collaborate with developers, business analysts, and stakeholders to clarify requirements and resolve issues.
- Work within cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of quality software.
- Maintain clear documentation of test scenarios, execution results, and defects.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- 3–5 years of experience in software testing or quality assurance.
- At least 2 years of hands-on experience testing Guidewire InsuranceSuite applications.
- Experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, and/or BillingCenter.
- Strong knowledge of manual testing, functional testing, integration testing, and regression testing.
- Experience with API testing and validation of application integrations.
- Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
- Ability to write SQL queries for data validation and testing.
- Experience using defect management tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, or ALM.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
Must-Have Skills
- Guidewire InsuranceSuite
- PolicyCenter
- ClaimCenter
Good-to-Have Skills
- Selenium Automation
- Java
- Postman
Preferred Qualifications
- Guidewire Associate or Specialist certification.
- Experience with test automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or TestNG.
- Exposure to the Guidewire Cloud Platform and cloud-based testing.
- Experience testing REST and SOAP-based integrations.
- Understanding of the Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance domain.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
- Knowledge of automated regression testing and quality engineering practices.
Technical Skills Summary
- Guidewire: InsuranceSuite, PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, BillingCenter
- Testing: Manual Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, UAT
- API Testing: Postman, SOAP UI, REST APIs, SOAP Web Services
- Database: SQL and data validation
- Defect Management: JIRA, Azure DevOps, ALM
- Automation: Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, TestNG, Java
- Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, SDLC, STLC
- DevOps: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CI/CD