Location: Ireland - Dublin

Employment Type: Full-time

Team: Delivery Services

We are looking for an enthusiastic QA Engineer who is passionate about building and maintaining high-quality software and ensuring the success of new & existing Guidewire Cloud customers. The CAPS team works with customers to develop new features, resolve issues, and assure the quality of each customers’ production codebase.

Ensure the quality of our monthly releases to Guidewire Cloud. Push to advance our productivity and efficiency through automation. Work closely with our customers and consultant developers. Help us transition to a cloud native approach. Grow into a Senior Test Automation Engineer.

You will have the opportunity to work directly with some of the largest insurance companies all over the world. We work in lean, empowered, and collaborative teams that communicate daily and enable us to focus on solving complex technical challenges. You will work with and learn from intelligent, experienced colleagues while also getting opportunities to grow your own leadership skills. We have a strong culture and a reputation for technical excellence within the industry and want a skilled and motivated test engineer to help grow this.

Successful Test Engineers at Guidewire typically are:

• Committed
• Have humility and hunger to learn from others
• Curious and have an internal motivation to improve constantly
• Focused on advocating for and creating good quality test cases that meet or exceed industry-standard
• Able to take ownership of the hands-on development effort for manual and automated testing of customer deployments
• Confident communicators, comfortable speaking their mind and promoting ideas based on merit

What are we looking for?

• Good knowledge of QA processes and terminology.
• Experience writing and executing tests in an automation framework.
• Experience working with customer development teams and customers to understand business objectives and functional requirements
• Experience in designing and writing manual test scripts
• Broad technical knowledge such as Object-Oriented Programming (JAVA or C#), relational databases (data modeling/SQL), web UI (design and development), XML, HTML, and CSS
• Ability to prioritize work effort in a dynamic work environment
• Experience with Agile software development lifecycle and related tools (ex. TFS, Jira, or Rally)
• Experience testing RESTful APIs and competent with API testing tools (ex. Postman and Swagger).
• BSc in Computer Science or equivalent from a third level institution

Nice to have

• Knowledge of JavaScript and Selenium
• Experience in TestCafe or other JavaScript-based frameworks.

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently.

Guidewire combines core, data, digital, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 400 insurers, including 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 1000+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of add-ons that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

Guidewire Software Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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