Guidewire’s development team is looking for an inquisitive, proactive, and results-oriented SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) to test elegant solutions for the property & casualty insurance industry’s complex business domain and make our industry-leading products even better. The team is looking for an enthusiastic engineer who is passionate about testing high quality software with a great team and improving the customer experience for millions of people who use our products every day.
As an SDET, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our industry-leading enterprise and SAAS software. You will be responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive set of automation tests using Guidewire testing frameworks and tools.
Our teams are lean, empowered, and collaborative. You’ll work alongside intelligent colleagues who’ve checked their egos at the door. We’ve built a strong culture, and we’re looking for engineers who can help us maintain it.
Successful SDET at Guidewire typically have:
- A passion for building quality into everything we do throughout the whole development cycle
- Curiosity and internal motivation to constantly learn and improve
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
- Work closely with Product Management and development engineers to understand features and contribute to the design of test plans and robust test cases
- Hands-on experience designing and developing test automation
- Maintain and update automated tests for continuous regression testing
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to express ideas and defend them based on merit while remaining open to learning from others
- Excellent collaboration abilities, working effectively within cross-functional teams
- Proficient in manual testing techniques
- Experience in setting up and managing test environments
- Familiarity with testing microservices
Key qualifications include experience with:
- Strong experience in software testing, test automation, and quality assurance.
- Experience in creating test plans, test cases, and doing risk analysis prior to product releases
- Understanding of software testing methodologies, best practices, and test automation strategies
- Experience in developing automated tests and/or frameworks using Java, Javascript or an equivalent object-oriented language
- Industry standard API Framework/Tools (Karate, Postman)
- Industry standard UI testing frameworks (TestCafe, Selenium, Cypress)
- 3rd party software integrations (REST APIs, XML, JSON)
- Tools (NPM, Gradle, TeamCity, Jenkins, Jira, XRay)
Knowledge of these technologies is a bonus:
- Experience working with Kotlin code
- Behavior Driven testing (Cucumber, Gherkin)
- Experience working with tools such as Datadog, Docker etc.
- Cloud services such as AWS
- Operating Systems (Unix, Windows, MacOS)
The ideal candidate has a Computer Science degree or equivalent and shares our core values: collegiality, integrity, and rationality. See and hear from our employees at
https://careers.guidewire.com/
If you embody these qualities and are passionate about making a significant impact in a dynamic and innovative software development environment, we encourage you to apply for the SDET position at Guidewire. Your ability to design and implement robust test automation solutions, as well as perform manual testing, will play a vital role in upholding the quality and success of our enterprise and SAAS software offerings. Join our team and contribute to the continuous improvement of our testing practices, ensuring that our software meets the highest standards of quality and reliability.
About Guidewire
Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 500 insurers in 38 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.
As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1000+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.
Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it’s applicable to the position.
Disability Accommodations and Guidewire’s Appeals Process. 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 (650) 356-4940 or
[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. Within five business days of receiving a notice of denial of an accommodation, or receiving a notice of your non-selection for a vacancy, call (650) 356-4940 or e-mail
[email protected] to make 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 within 10 business days.
