Senior Automation Tester (Strong Guidewire/Claim Center/ Billing Cent)

Cerebra; Chennai, Coimbatore District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebra is seeking an experienced Automation Tester in Chennai and Coimbatore to design, build, and execute enterprise-scale automation for Guidewire ClaimCenter and BillingCenter. Hands-on GT Framework expertise is mandatory, with Playwright/TypeScript preferred to support the roadmap.

You will own the automation strategy, design modular components, and ensure CI/CD integration. The role focuses on CC first, BC next, and PolicyCenter in a later phase.

Qualifications

• 10-12 years in test automation or quality engineering.
• Hands-on with Guidewire ClaimCenter and BillingCenter.
• GT Framework, GT-UI, GT-API, CI/CD integration expertise.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale automation frameworks.
• UI and API automation, test-data management.
• Automation estimation, test strategy, and regression planning.
• Strong stakeholder communication and technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the automation strategy and framework implementation for Guidewire CC and BC.
• Design reusable, modular, scalable automation components.
• Build and maintain Guidewire automation using GT-UI and GT-API.
• Automate CC flows: FNOL, setup, exposures, reserves, payments, closures.
• Automate BC flows: accounts, invoices, payments, collections, disbursements.
• Validate integrations across ClaimCenter, BillingCenter, and third parties.
• Support regression, release, upgrade, and cloud testing; include Playwright roadmap.
• Integrate tests with Jenkins, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive automation standards, governance, reporting, and quality metrics.
• Collaborate with product owners, architects, developers, DevOps, and clients.

Skills

Guidewire CC/BC

GT Framework

Playwright

TypeScript

CI/CD

Automation strategy

Stakeholder comms

Technical leadership

Tools

GT-UI

GT-API

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Docker

Job description

Role: Automation Tester

Location: Chennai and Coimbatore

Experience: 10-12 years

Primary Focus: Automation, GT Framework, Playwright / TypeScript, PolicyCenter ( Strong Guidewire/Claim Center / Billing Center | GT Framework | Playwright )

JOB Summary

We are seeking an experienced Automation Tester to design, build, and execute enterprise-scale automation for Guidewire ClaimCenter (CC) and BillingCenter (BC).

The current implementation priority is CC followed by BC. PolicyCenter (PC) is planned for a later phase and is not required as the candidates primary Guidewire experience.

Hands-on expertise in the Guidewire Testing (GT) Framework is mandatory. Playwright experience is preferred to support the future automation roadmap

• Own the automation strategy and framework implementation for Guidewire ClaimCenter and BillingCenter
• Design reusable, modular, maintainable, and scalable test automation components
• Build and maintain Guidewire automation using GT-UI and GT-API capabilities.
• Automate core ClaimCenter flows including FNOL, claim setup, exposures, reserves, payments, recoveries, and claim closure.
• Automate BillingCenter flows including account billing, invoicing, payment plans, collections, disbursements, delinquency, and commissions.
• Validate integrations across ClaimCenter, BillingCenter, downstream platforms, and third-party systems.
• Support regression, release, upgrade, and cloud implementation testing. Contribute to Playwright-based automation for surrounding web applications as the roadmap evolves.
• Integrate automated tests with Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or equivalent CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive automation standards, code reviews, governance, reporting, execution stability, and quality metrics.
• Collaborate with product owners, architects, developers, DevOps engineers, business teams, and client stakeholders.

Mandatory Skills

• 10-12 years of overall test automation or quality-engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Guidewire ClaimCenter and BillingCenter / business processes, configuration, integrations, and testing.
• Hands-on expertise in the Guidewire Testing (GT) Framework, including GT-UI, GT-API, test-data setup, execution, and CI/CD integration.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale custom, hybrid, or modular automation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of UI automation, API automation, reusable utilities, reporting, synchronization, error handling, and test-data management.
• Experience with automation estimation, test strategy, test planning, regression planning, and automation-candidate identification.
• Strong stakeholder communication, presentation, mentoring, and technical leadership 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.
• TypeScript knowledge including types, interfaces, classes, modules, promises, asynchronous programming, and reusable framework development.
• Experience combining Guidewire-focused automation with Playwright automation for surrounding web applications.
• Experience with REST API automation, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Docker, or cloud-based test execution.
• Exposure to self-healing automation concepts such as Helenium and dynamic locator recovery