Lead Guidewire PolicyCenter Automation Architect

American Family Insurance; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Pension plan

Annual incentive

Holidays & PTO

Student loan repayment

Paid-family leave

Job summary

American Family Insurance seeks a leader to own the Guidewire PolicyCenter functional and automation strategy across its insurance tech applications. You will drive testing innovations, set standards for frameworks, environments, and ROI, and mentor QA teams to solve complex problems for quality and speed.

The role focuses on large-scale automation initiatives, cross-functional collaboration, and strategic testing alignment with enterprise goals.

Qualifications

• Experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter and integrated systems.
• Experience delivering customer-driven solutions or services.
• Extensive automation or software engineering experience in insurance tech.
• Experience leading automation strategy in large systems.
• Subject matter expert in one or more automation frameworks.
• Knowledge of cloud-based CI/CD and test environments.
• Ability to align testing initiatives with organizational goals.
• Experience evaluating new tools and technologies.
• Experience architecting scalable test solutions.
• Experience analyzing mockups for test design changes.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience with test data management and validation.
• Experience mentoring others.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the Guidewire PolicyCenter functional & test automation strategy across applications.
• Establish quality standards for framework design, versioning and test environments.
• Negotiate and build consensus on complex technical decisions and testing objectives.
• Lead manual, automated, and performance testing across multiple systems.
• Research, evaluate, and implement innovation in testing tools and methods.
• Align regression coverage metrics and reporting on automation ROI to leadership.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to QA teams to drive improvements.
• Participate in other assignments or projects as needed.

Skills

Guidewire PolicyCenter

Test automation

QA leadership

Automation strategies

CI/CD

Mentorship

Automation frameworks

Cloud technologies

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Karate API

Coding/Scripting

Job description

American Family Insurance seeks a leader to own the Guidewire PolicyCenter functional and automation strategy across its insurance tech applications. You will drive testing innovations, set standards for frameworks, environments, and ROI, and mentor QA teams to solve complex problems for quality and speed.

The role focuses on large-scale automation initiatives, cross-functional collaboration, and strategic testing alignment with enterprise goals.