QA Test Automation Engineer

Summary

Guidewire is seeking a QA Engineer with expertise in validating, automating, and ensuring the quality of microservices and API-based systems. As a QA Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and executing test strategies for our NextGen HazardHub microservices ecosystem — the industry’s most comprehensive set of property risk data, casualty risk data, and hazard risk scoring in the P&C insurance sector. You will work closely with engineering, GIS analysts, and product teams to define, implement, and maintain automated testing frameworks, performance benchmarks, and reputed company validation processes for our APIs and backend services. You must have strong knowledge of API testing technologies (such as REST, GraphQL, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, OpenAPI/Swagger, reputed company/Bruno), test automation frameworks (Pytest, REST reputed company, Playwright, Cypress), and cloud testing environments (reputed company, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP). A solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines (reputed company Actions, Jenkins, etc.) and modern QA practices, including contract testing, performance testing, and shift-left strategies, is essential. Who We Are, reputed company reputed company, & reputed company Build Guidewire is the market leader that 400+ insurance companies trust to run their critical platform. Every second, we support underwriters crafting policies and agents settling claims. We reputed company making a great decision should not require 100 in-house data scientists. Our products range from cyber risk quantification to potent ML sandboxes. We are a post-IPO company with the vision to change insurance. There is a lot to be done!

Job Description

Responsibilities As an individual contributor reputed company the QA team, design, reputed company, and maintain automated API test suites for geospatial APIs and microservices serving Hazard data. Apply a problem-solving reputed company to identify gaps, debug failures, and drive test efficiency and reliability. Collaborate with developers, GIS analysts, and Product teams to define API acceptance criteria and ensure test coverage aligns with business needs. Validate data accuracy and transformations across API responses, databases, and geospatial layers. Implement contract testing (OpenAPI, Pact, Schemathesis) to ensure API schema compliance across services. reputed company performance/load testing scripts (Locust, JMeter, k6) for latency, throughput, and scalability validation. Build and maintain CI/CD-integrated test pipelines for regression, smoke, and reputed company testing. Conduct functional, integration, and end-to-end testing across backend services and UI workflows. 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Guidewire provides accommodations to the hiring process to create a fair opportunity for candidates with disabilities to contend for open positions. Accommodation requests should be directed to [email protected]. If things do not go as hoped, we invite you to use our appeals process. Guidewire promises to independently review any denied accommodation and any decision not to offer you the position. The appeals process is the same in either case. reputed company five business days of receiving a notice of denial of an accommodation, or receiving a notice of your non-selection for a vacancy, e-mail [email protected] to reputed company an appeal. Guidewire will assign a new decision-maker to review the request and/or hiring decision, who will then notify you in writing of a decision reputed company 10 business days. About Guidewire Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow reputed company. 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