Guidewire QA Automation Architect

Summary

Professional Services at Guidewire partners with P&C insurers worldwide to deliver secure, cloud-delivered platforms that transform how they run their businesses. As part of this team, you’ll help revolutionize services execution by embedding AI and automation to reduce implementation effort and time, accelerate cloud adoption, and drive measurable customer value. We work as one global team—hands-on, collaborative, and outcome-focused—alongside customers and partners across regions.
As a QA Automation Architect, you will own the end-to-end automation strategy for complex Guidewire implementations, spanning InsuranceSuite, digital, and Guidewire Cloud. You’ll design scalable UI and API automation frameworks, introduce AI-assisted quality practices, and turn automation into reusable accelerators that align directly with Professional Services’ FY26 priorities to cut implementation effort by 50%, shorten timelines by 30%, and industrialize AI-powered services across Guidewire- and partner-led projects. This is a highly visible, technical leadership role where you’ll mentor teams, influence customer and SI QA practices, and help insurers adopt Guidewire Cloud with confidence while contributing to Guidewire’s broader mission to transform how the world’s P&C insurers do business through digital, analytics, and AI delivered as a cloud service.

Job Description

What you’ll do

• Architect and own scalable, maintainable UI and API test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Playwright) for PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, BillingCenter, and related digital components, aligned with Guidewire Cloud and modern browser-based delivery practices.

• Design and implement automation strategies and GTUI-based regression suites that significantly reduce manual testing effort and regression cycle time.

• Partner with Professional Services engagement leaders, developers, and customer/SI QA teams to define automation scope, coverage, quality gates, and non-functional testing strategies across Guidewire- and SI-led programs.

• Embed robust, CI/CD-friendly automated suites into implementation methodologies so they become reusable accelerators and repeatable offerings across insurers, regions, and delivery models, supporting PS priorities to industrialize AI-powered, repeatable services.

• Coach and mentor Professional Services engineers and partners on automation engineering best practices, coding standards, test data strategy, GTUI usage, and maintainable test design patterns to uplift quality across the portfolio.

• Collaborate closely with Product Development & Operations and other internal teams to align automation approaches with platform capabilities, GenAI “lifts,” and Guidewire Cloud testing standards, ensuring consistent quality and contributing to Guidewire’s mission to transform the way the world’s P&C insurers do business.

• 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 bringRequired

• Practical experience with GTUI (Guidewire Test User Interface), including building or using regression suites for Guidewire UI flows (e.g., PolicyCenter renewals, ClaimCenter FNOL), stable object identification, and end-to-end test data management.

• Hands-on experience with Guidewire products (PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, BillingCenter, Digital, or Guidewire Cloud) as a QA engineer, developer, or architect.

• Extensive experience designing and implementing UI and API automation frameworks using tools such as Selenium and Playwright in complex enterprise, SaaS, or cloud environments.

• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language commonly used for test automation (such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python), with strong understanding of object-oriented design, reusable components, and clean code principles.

• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (for example, Git-based workflows, build servers, containerized execution) and working within agile or iterative delivery models.

• Background in architecting automation for large, configurable applications or platforms, balancing reusability, scalability, performance, and maintainability.

• Experience working in cloud or distributed environments and understanding how to design resilient tests for highly configurable, multi-tenant systems.

• 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

• Prior Professional Services, consulting, or customer-facing project experience on large, multi-vendor implementation programs where you shaped testing strategy.

• Exposure to AI-powered testing tools, model-based testing, or intelligent test analytics platforms.

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

Your Impact

We believe in clarity and setting you up for success. In your first months, you’ll immerse yourself in Guidewire’s platform, Professional Services delivery methodology, and the FY26 PS VPMOM priorities to revolutionize services execution with AI and automation—cutting implementation effort, shortening timelines, and industrializing repeatable, AI-powered offerings. 

You’ll assess automation assets on high-impact Guidewire Cloud programs, define a unifying automation strategy, and evolve Selenium/Playwright-based and GTUI suites into reusable accelerators that can be rolled out across customers and regions. Within six months, you’ll be leading automation strategy for flagship implementations, demonstrating measurable reductions in manual testing effort and regression cycle time, improving release quality, and helping Professional Services hit its revenue, margin, and AI-adoption targets while enabling insurers to adopt Guidewire Cloud with confidence and advancing Guidewire’s wider mission to transform global P&C insurance through secure, AI-enabled, cloud-delivered software. 

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.