Quality Engineer/QA Engineer - Remote/Guidewire at Kforce Inc.
New York, NY 10016
About the Job
- Create Guidewire test approaches and strategy for Insurance implementations
- Set up test processes and drive continuous efficiencies
- Participate in daily sprint stand ups and plan for test execution of stories, features, and epics
- Build sprint test design and execution plans
- Manage allocation and assignments and drive test progress
- Build test plans and approaches for time travel testing including the planning associated towards required environments
- Participate in business requirements reviews and provide feedback to developers
- Work with business towards test design reviews, incorporating feedback and test results sign off
- Define test automation strategy towards meeting functional and non-functional requirements and drive the implementation
- Document defects where required and own them towards closure helping the dev teams on retesting and prioritization
- Demonstrate solution progress at regular intervals to the program stakeholders
- Identify the test dependencies well ahead and plan to meet them with right stakeholders involved in a timely manner
Requirements:
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related degree required
- Minimum 8 years of experience as a Quality Engineer or Quality Analyst with Guidewire products and insurance domain required
- Minimum 5 years of experience will tools like Jira, Git, Bitbucket, etc. required
- Minimum 4 years of experienced with full implementation cycle of end-to-end insurance domain implementations required
- Minimum 2 years of experience working Test automation experience driven by Guidewire GT UI and API test frameworks required
- The primary requirement is that the individual has undergone 2-3 full Guidewire implementations
- The ideal candidate should be familiar with the Guidewire Testing framework
- Experienced with Insurance domain and value chain across Policy, Claims and Billing and E2E program test implementations
- Experienced with full implementation cycle of end-to-end insurance domain implementations
- Test automation experience driven by Guidewire GT UI and API test frameworks
- Implementation experience in leveraging Gatling towards performance testing
- Experienced in planning, design of time travel testing
- Experienced across multiple core integrations like data warehouse, financial, portal, rating, financial, etc.
- Understanding of GW branching and experience with associated automation suites management
- Execution experience in driving QE planning, design, and execution in a SAFe agile manner
- Implementation of quality gates implementation through GW TeamCity CI/CD and associated tooling
- Implementation experience of SAFe agile methodologies for Integration and end to end planning and execution
- Understanding of test automation across test data, data platform, Guidewire, APIs, and non-functional testing
- Guidewire Associate certification with latest v10 Guidewire product preferred
- Guidewire Cloud experience is a plus
The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.
We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.
Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.
This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.
Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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