Functional QA Consultant - Manual Testing Specialist

Functional QA - Consultant

Summary

Professional Services at Guidewire partners with P&C insurers worldwide to design, implement, and optimize mission-critical solutions on the Guidewire platform, with a strong focus on cloud and AI-enabled delivery. You’ll join a collaborative, global team that values curiosity, transparency, and continuous improvement, working closely with customers and internal stakeholders.
As a Test Engineer - Manual, you will be responsible for designing and executing functional tests for Guidewire implementations, ensuring our solutions meet business requirements and are delivered with high quality and reliability. You will contribute to the full QA lifecycle, learn our products and the P&C domain, and play a key role in helping projects go live successfully and on time.

Job Description

What you’ll do

• Participate in Guidewire or P&C insurance implementation projects, supporting QA activities from requirement analysis and test design through execution and sign-off.

• Design, write, and maintain clear manual test cases and test scenarios based on functional and business requirements for core P&C processes (for example, policy, billing, claims).

• Execute functional, integration, regression, and UAT support testing; document results and log defects with sufficient detail for resolution.

• Collaborate closely with Functional and Technical Consultants, developers, and customer stakeholders to clarify requirements, ensure adequate test coverage, and track defects and retesting using tools such as Jira.

• Contribute to test planning, estimations, and status reporting, highlighting risks and issues that may impact quality or timelines.

• Follow and help improve QA standards, templates, and best practices to support consistent, efficient delivery across projects.

• At Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI—empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.

What you’ll bring

Required

• 3–5 years of experience in QA functional testing of enterprise applications.

• Exposure to P&C insurance domain.

• Strong skills in writing and executing manual test cases and test scenarios from business and functional requirements.

• Experience with defect and test management tools such as Jira (or similar), including logging, tracking, and retesting defects.

• Solid understanding of SDLC and basic testing types (functional, integration, regression, UAT support).

• Good analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and a focus on quality.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively as part of a distributed, cross-functional team.

• Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your current role as well as data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.

Preferred

• Experience on implementation or migration projects in a consulting / Professional Services or customer-facing environment.

• Familiarity with cloud-based solutions or SaaS implementations.

• Exposure to test automation tools or frameworks and interest in learning how automation and AI can reduce testing effort over time.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Your Impact

We believe in clarity and setting you up for success. In your first six months, you will support QA on one or more Guidewire implementation projects, learning the product, understanding customer business processes, and contributing to test design and execution. You’ll help ensure test coverage is sufficient, defects are well documented, and releases are delivered with confidence. Over time, you will grow your ownership of QA workstreams, become a go-to QA specialist on projects, and contribute ideas on how to use AI, tooling, and best practices to improve quality and efficiency across Professional Services.

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.

Experience Level

Mid Level