[Remote] QA Test Lead - P&C Insurance (Guidewire)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cognizant is seeking a Test Lead with extensive QA experience and a strong understanding of personal lines Insurance. The role involves validating software functionality, mentoring junior team members, and collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure high-quality testing outcomes. Responsibilities • Review and understand complex test plan/design to validate the quality of new and existing software functionality and support existing Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance systems application testing capability. • Take a defined complex test design and turn it into either appropriate manual or develop required automated test cases and deliver it on schedule, applying appropriate technologies and current software engineering best practices. Can also call out potential coverage gaps or missing test scenarios within that test design. • Write stable, efficient and maintainable automated test code. Use technology to solve straightforward problems, seeking input and guidance from team members. • Works with more junior members to mentor and support them as they create manual or develop automated tests based on defined test plans. Completes code reviews and provides constructive feedback to other Software Development Engineer in Test. • Work effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions. Invent, refine and develop solutions to ensure software testing results are meeting customer needs and team goals. Responsible for tactical ownership and hands-on design implementation, and support of components within your team’s projects. • Collaborates with leads and QA Architects to establish a technical vision for your Agile team, define best practices, analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs and make the right decisions to ensure your teams future success. • Collaborate with subject matter experts and business partners to understand the needs of the business and our customers and create test scenarios to deliver the high quality solutions to our customers. • Actively participate in team design, scoping, prioritization discussions and Agile ceremonies. Skills • Overall 8-12 years of experience in QA testing experience with strong experience in Property & Casualty Insurance. • Must have 4+ years of experience with in Property & Casualty Insurance. • Strong knowledge of P&C insurance product functionality (Auto or Home preferred). • Experience in testing insurance systems such as policy administration, claims, billing, or underwriting platforms. • Good experience with rating, underwriting rules, policy lifecycle, conversion/migration testing in P&C insurance. • Good understanding of Guidewire, or other insurance policy admin systems (P&C/Home, Auto Insurance) preferred. • Solid hands-on QA testing experience (manual/functional/regression), preferably in Agile/Scrum delivery teams. • Experience working within insurance carriers or consulting firms supporting Guidewire implementation. • Experience with test management tools (e.g., ALM, JIRA, Zephyr, TestRail). • Exposure to one or more modules of Guidewire (PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, or ClaimCenter). • Automation testing experience (UI/API). Benefits • Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance • Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off • 401(k) plan and contributions • Long-term/Short-term Disability • Paid Parental Leave • Employee Stock Purchase Plan Company Overview • Cognizant is a professional services company that helps clients alter their business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. It was founded in 1994, and is headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is Apply tot his job