Lead Quality Automation Engineer - Guidewire

Guidewire automation

• Education: Any graduate degree from a recognized institution. • Experience: 5–10 years of overall QA experience with a minimum of 5 years of relevant, hands-on testing experience on Guidewire BillingCenter, PolicyCenter, and/or ClaimCenter. • Strong Guidewire expertise: Proven experience testing configurations, integrations, and customizations in at least two of the three modules (BillingCenter, PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter), with solid understanding of P&C insurance processes. • Automation skills: Practical experience in designing and executing Playwright-based automation for web applications, including scripting, debugging, and maintaining test suites. • Testing fundamentals: Solid knowledge of software testing life cycle (STLC), defect life cycle, test design techniques, and regression testing strategies. • Communication & collaboration: Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams, clearly articulate issues, and provide structured feedback in an agile environment • Advanced Guidewire proficiency: Hands-on experience across all three modules—BillingCenter, PolicyCenter, and ClaimCenter—covering end-to-end policy, billing, and claims lifecycle scenarios. • Playwright framework ownership: Demonstrated ability to architect or significantly enhance a Playwright automation framework (page object model, test data strategy, environment configuration, parallel execution). • CI/CD integration: Experience integrating Playwright tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI) to enable automated regression and smoke suites on each build. • Performance and reliability mindset: Exposure to non-functional testing concepts (performance, reliability, stability) for large-scale enterprise applications, especially in insurance or financial services. • Leadership in quality engineering: Prior experience leading small QA/automation teams, setting quality goals, reviewing test assets, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. • Domain understanding: Strong understanding of P&C insurance products, rating, billing cycles, claims handling, and related business rules within Guidewire implementations. • Documentation & best practices: Proven track record of maintaining clear test documentation, reusable test libraries, and enforcing coding and testing standards in automation projects. Good to have skills: Git, Jenkins, REST API testing, SQL, Agile/Scrum • Lead end-to-end quality engineering for Guidewire BillingCenter, PolicyCenter, and ClaimCenter implementations, ensuring high-quality releases for complex insurance workflows. • Design, develop, and maintain Playwright-based automation frameworks for UI and API testing of Guidewire applications, focusing on reusability, scalability, and maintainability. • Analyze business and technical requirements to derive comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and test cases covering functional, integration, regression, and sanity testing. • Drive test automation adoption by identifying high-value regression scenarios in Guidewire modules and converting them into robust automated suites using Playwright. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, BAs, product owners, architects) to clarify requirements, define acceptance criteria, and embed quality practices early in the lifecycle. • Perform hands-on testing of BillingCenter/PolicyCenter/ClaimCenter configurations, integrations, and customizations, validating rating, billing, policy, and claims processes end-to-end. • Implement CI-friendly test suites by integrating Playwright automation into build pipelines, enabling frequent, reliable regression runs and quick feedback to the team. • Monitor and report on quality metrics such as defect trends, automation coverage, and test execution results, providing clear, actionable insights to stakeholders. • Troubleshoot complex defects across Guidewire modules, working with development teams to isolate root causes and validate fixes in a timely manner. • Mentor and guide junior testers in Guidewire domain knowledge, test design, and automation best practices, fostering a culture of quality and continuous learning. • Ensure compliance with QA standards, documentation practices, and organizational processes for test artifacts, defect management, and release sign-off.