QA Architect
Lead a Specialized Consulting Center team. Provide technical leadership and guidance. Help drive a 'shift-left' transition. Guide our automation teams in the adoption of Guidewire Cloud standards. Enable your team to meet delivery commitments. We want highly-skilled problem solvers who enjoy leading and mentoring team members. We really value clear and logical thinking, good communication skills, a focus on quality, and the ability to work well in a globally distributed team. Is this you?
Join us and be part of a new, growing team of QA Engineers working at the forefront of Guidewires cloud transformation.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of QA engineers
- Enable our production QA teams to meet fast cadence delivery deadlines for release of new product features and defect fixes.
- Identify and resolve platform issues from a QA perspective
- Drive the 'shift-left' adoption in QA
- Collaborate on transition from manual to automation for QA team in terms of scope & resourcing needs
- Find, and deliver on, test efficiencies
- Mentor and guide fellow team members, focusing on knowledge sharing and training opportunities to foster continuous improvement and growth of the overall team
- Deliver proactive guidance to our team on cloud testing and standards
- Keep current on, and contribute to, Product Test Strategy
- We are firm believers in Guidewire’s core principles of integrity, rationality, and collegiality. Practicing and advocating for these principles is an important part of how we work
- Work in India with the potential for occasional travel internationally, specifically to customers and also internal team events
Required skills/Experience:
- Eager to learn new things and passionate about quality!
- A self-motivated individual contributor and a great teammate with good communication and teamwork skills.
- In-depth knowledge of QA process lifecycle, inputs and outputs
- Property and Casualty insurance Domain Knowledge is required
- Agile approach to Software Development
- Able to apply creative and critical thinking techniques and domain expertise to critique the product
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis abilities
- Solid understanding of CI/CD tools and technologies such as Jenkins or TeamCity
- API and UI testing, with prior Karate or TestCafe experience a plus
- Experience with BDD (Behavior Driven Development)
- Accept feedback with eagerness to learn more
- Flexibility to do shift work as needed (aligning to US colleagues/customers)
Top Skills
What We Do
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, 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 1,000+ 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.
Why Work With Us
We're focused on each and every employees' personal and professional development, and offer internal career mobility programs and growth opportunities that make Guidewire unique. Other perks like generous PTO, flexible working, our Guidewire Gives Back charitabeland our "Work From Almost Anywhere" program support our employees' work-life balance