Guidewire Automation QA Senior Consultant

Summary

Our Professional Services team partners with customers worldwide to implement extend and optimize Guidewires industry-leading cloud platform for P&C insurers. We work at the intersection of product engineering and customer delivery to reduce implementation effort and time while driving measurable customer value and successful cloud adoption. Youll join a collaborative outcomes-focused team that blends deep insurance cloud and AI expertise to help customers transform how they do business.

In this role as Guidewire Automation QA - Senior Consultant you will be involved in designing frameworks defining test strategy and ensuring reliable highquality delivery of our applications in the cloud. You will bring strong JavaScript automation skills CI/CD experience and a passion for robust engineering practices to reduce manual effort and accelerate releases. You will collaborate closely with developers DevOps and project teams mentoring others and using automation and AI to cut implementation effort and time in line with Professional Services transformation goals.

Job Description

• Design implement and maintain scalable UI automation frameworks for Guidewire applications using TestCafe (hybrid datadriven modular) JavaScript JSON-based test data and custom HTML reporting.

• Define and drive the automation strategy for Professional Services projects aligning test coverage quality goals and execution priorities with PSs mission to reduce implementation effort.

• Develop review and optimize robust automation scripts (primarily JavaScript) that validate complex Gherkin/BDD-style requirements ensuring reusability maintainability and adherence to coding standards.

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins TeamCity) so suites run reliably from the CI server supporting faster safer cloud releases for customer programs.

• Use tools such as Ignite to generate and refine Page Objects and write custom JavaScript functions to cover sophisticated endtoend and regression scenarios across web and API layers.

• Execute and debug automation runs distinguish application defects from script issues and proactively fix and refactor flaky tests to keep the automation suite stable over time.

• Collaborate closely with developers architects DevOps and Professional Services project teams to plan test effort estimate automation scope and provide clear quality and defect insights using tools such as JIRA and test reporting frameworks.

• Mentor and up-skill junior QA engineers and partner teams on automation best practices contributing to PSs broader AI- and automation-enabled methodology and knowledge sharing.

• At Guidewire we foster a culture of curiosity innovation and responsible use of AIempowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.

Required

• 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.

• 7 years of overall QA experience with at least 3 years leading automation initiatives or acting as a senior automation engineer on complex projects.

• Strong programming skills in JavaScript and experience building or extending test automation frameworks (UI and ideally API) including data-driven and modular architectures.

• Hands-on experience with at least one modern automation toolset such as Selenium Cypress Playwright or Appium and willingness to primarily work with TestCafe for UI test automation.

• Practical experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins TeamCity Azure DevOps) and working with Git/Bitbucket for version control and code review.

• Ability to interpret BDD/Gherkin-style requirements and translate them into robust maintainable automated test suites.

• Experience with test reporting and defect tracking using tools such as JIRA and test reporting libraries providing clear actionable quality metrics.

• Strong collaboration communication and mentoring skills with experience working in cross-functional globally distributed teams.

Preferred

• Experience in Professional Services consulting or customer-facing project delivery environments ideally in a SaaS or cloud context.

• Exposure to P&C insurance or financial services domains or a strong interest in developing deep insurance domain expertise as part of this role.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS Azure or GCP) and running automation suites in containerized or cloud-native environments (Docker Kubernetes).

• Background in performance reliability or non-functional testing in addition to functional automation.

• Experience contributing to test strategy effort estimation and quality risk assessment for large-scale programs.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

We believe in clarity and setting you up for your first six months you will learn Guidewires product ecosystem and Professional Services delivery model deepen your understanding of P&C insurance workflows and take ownership of the automation framework and strategy for one or more customer implementation projects. Youll streamline and stabilize our automated regression and endtoend suites integrate them into CI/CD and help teams reduce manual testing effort while increasing coverage and confidence in each release. As you mature in the role your work will directly support Professional Services FY26 prioritiesusing AI and automation to reduce implementation effort and time accelerate cloud adoption and ensure every customer is successful and referenceablecontributing to Guidewires broader mission to transform how the worlds P&C insurers do business through secure AIenabled cloud solutions.

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 and follow us on Twitter: @GuidewirePandC.

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 its applicable to the position.