Guidewire InsuranceNow QA Lead

Job Title: Senior Specialist - Package Implementation

Required Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• 9 years of dedicated software quality assurance experience with at least 2 - 3 years focused on test automation
• Handson experience testing Guidewire implementations upgrades or PC insurance workflows
• Strong experience with at least two test automation frameworks e.g., Selenium Cypress Playwright TestNG JUnit
• Strong analytical problem solving and debugging skills
• Agile experience with tools such as JIRA

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of the insurance industry personal lines preferred policy claim administration systems ex Guidewires InsuranceNow reinsurance insurance billing
• Hands on experience testing Guidewire InsuranceNow implementations upgrades or PC insurance workflows
• SQL experience Database knowledge writing SQL queries for backend data validation
• Experience with cloud platforms AWS Azure Knowledge of performance testing tools like K6 or JMeter
• Familiarity with AI assisted productivity tools for test case generation and optimization

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead test automation effort from the ground up
• Design develop and maintain automated test frameworks and easily maintainable test scripts for primarily web applications with potential expansions into other platforms
• Execute automated and manual test cases to validate functionality regression integration and performance
• Understanding the needs of our customers both insureds and agents and being a proactive advocate for their Berkley One brand experience
• Ability to translate business requirements into executable test strategy and clearly communicate risk to others in the organization
• Incorporate AI into QA Automation process where applicable
• Perform exploratory testing and identify edge cases not covered by automation Monitor and report on quality metrics test coverage and release readiness
• Continuously identify and articulate process improvement recommendations that will increase quality and/or efficiency and keep to best practices

Soft Skills:

• Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities
• Excellent communication and coordination skills
• Ability to work independently and manage cross functional teams
• Analytical mindset with problem solving orientation