Role & responsibilities
Job Description: Guidewire Automation Tester
Experience: 1012 Years
Location: Hyderabad
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Guidewire Automation Tester with strong hands-on expertise in Guidewire ClaimCenter (CC), BillingCenter (BC), and the Guidewire Testing (GT) Framework. The candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable automation frameworks, automating critical business workflows, and ensuring quality across Guidewire applications and integrations.
ClaimCenter will be the initial implementation priority, followed by BillingCenter. PolicyCenter experience is not mandatory. Experience with Playwright and TypeScript is preferred to support future automation initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reusable, and modular test automation frameworks for Guidewire ClaimCenter and BillingCenter.
- Build and execute automated tests using the Guidewire Testing Framework, including GT-UI and GT-API.
- Automate ClaimCenter workflows such as FNOL, claim setup, exposures, reserves, payments, recoveries, and claim closure.
- Automate BillingCenter workflows, including account billing, invoicing, payment plans, collections, disbursements, delinquency, and commissions.
- Validate integrations between Guidewire applications, downstream platforms, and third-party systems.
- Support regression, release, upgrade, and cloud implementation testing.
- Integrate automated test suites with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or equivalent tools.
- Develop automation strategies, test plans, estimates, reusable utilities, and test-data management solutions.
- Monitor test execution, troubleshoot failures, improve automation stability, and report quality metrics.
- Conduct code reviews, establish automation standards, and mentor team members.
- Collaborate with developers, architects, DevOps engineers, product owners, business teams, and client stakeholders.
- Contribute to Playwright-based automation for surrounding web applications as the automation roadmap evolves.
Mandatory Skills
- 10-12 years of overall experience in test automation or quality engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with Guidewire ClaimCenter and BillingCenter business processes, configuration, integrations, and testing.
- Mandatory hands-on expertise in the Guidewire Testing (GT) Framework, including GT-UI and GT-API.
- Experience with test-data setup, automated test execution, and CI/CD integration.
- Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale custom, hybrid, or modular automation frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of UI automation, API automation, reusable utilities, synchronization, error handling, reporting, and test-data management.
- Experience in test strategy, estimation, planning, regression planning, and automation candidate identification.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, technical leadership, and mentoring skills.
Preferred Skills
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Playwright, preferably using TypeScript.
- Knowledge of Playwright fixtures, hooks, locators, assertions, browser contexts, storage state, tracing, retries, reporting, parallel execution, and sharding.
- Good understanding of TypeScript, including types, interfaces, classes, modules, promises, and asynchronous programming.
- Experience combining Guidewire automation with Playwright automation for surrounding web applications.
- Experience with REST API automation and tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and Docker.
- Exposure to cloud-based test execution and self-healing automation concepts, including Selenium-based solutions and dynamic locator recovery.