QA Architect

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.
• 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).Property and Casualty insurance Domain Knowledge.
• Accept feedback with eagerness to learn more.
• Flexibility to do shift work as needed (aligning to US colleagues/customers).