Guidewire Quality Analyst

Job Title: Guidewire PolicyCenter QA Engineer

Overview / Summary

We are seeking an experienced Guidewire QA Engineer with strong expertise in Guidewire PolicyCenter and Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance to ensure the quality and reliability of Guidewire implementations. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing of Guidewire applications, along with a strong understanding of PolicyCenter business processes, Agile methodologies, and software testing best practices. Guidewire Cloud experience and certifications are highly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze business requirements, functional specifications, and user stories to develop comprehensive test strategies and test cases.
• Perform functional, integration, system, regression, end-to-end, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) support for Guidewire PolicyCenter.
• Validate PolicyCenter configurations, product model changes, workflows, underwriting rules, and business processes.
• Execute test scenarios covering policy lifecycle transactions, including submissions, quotes, issuance, endorsements, renewals, cancellations, and reinstatements.
• Coordinate with developers, business analysts, product owners, and stakeholders to ensure complete test coverage and timely defect resolution.
• Identify, log, track, and verify defects using defect management tools.
• Participate in Sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Perform integration testing with external systems and third-party applications.
• Support test data preparation, test environment validation, and production verification activities.
• Create and maintain test plans, test cases, test execution reports, and quality metrics.
• Participate in release validation and production deployment support activities.
• Ensure adherence to Guidewire QA standards, testing best practices, and organizational quality processes.

Required Qualifications

• 6–8 years of overall IT experience.
• Minimum 4+ years of hands-on testing experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter.
• Strong functional knowledge of Guidewire PolicyCenter (v10 or later preferred).
• Must possess Guidewire Certification in any Guidewire InsuranceSuite application (PolicyCenter certification preferred).
• Experience in at least one end-to-end Guidewire Greenfield implementation.
• Strong knowledge of Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance domain.
• Experience performing:
  • Functional Testing
  • System Testing
  • Integration Testing
  • Regression Testing
  • End-to-End Testing
  • UAT Support
• Hands-on experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments.
• Experience using:
  • Azure DevOps (ADO)
  • JIRA
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Project
  • SharePoint
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and defect management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Guidewire Cloud Certification (PolicyCenter Cloud or related Guidewire Cloud certification).
• Experience working on Guidewire Cloud implementations or migrations.
• Experience with Guidewire Cloud testing and validation of cloud-based deployments.
• Knowledge of Guidewire integrations and end-to-end testing across PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, and ClaimCenter.
• Experience with test automation tools such as Selenium, ReadyAPI, or similar.
• Experience with SQL for backend data validation and troubleshooting.

Required Technical Skills

• Guidewire PolicyCenter
• Guidewire InsuranceSuite
• Functional Testing
• System Testing
• Integration Testing
• Regression Testing
• End-to-End Testing
• UAT
• Agile/Scrum
• Azure DevOps (ADO)
• JIRA
• Microsoft Office Suite
• SharePoint
• SQL (preferred)

Experience

• 6–8 years of overall IT experience.
• Minimum 4+ years of Guidewire PolicyCenter QA experience.
• Experience in at least one end-to-end Guidewire Greenfield implementation.