About this role

Position: Guidewire InsuranceNow QA Lead

Location: Urbandale - Iowa (Remote)

Position Type: Contract

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:

Guidewire InsuranceNow QA Lead

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