QA Lead

Role Name: QA Lead
Location: Toronto, ON
Duration: Contract

JOB DESCRIPTION:
"The Guidewire QA Lead is responsible for leading quality assurance activities across Guidewire InsuranceSuite implementations PolicyCenter BillingCenter ClaimCenter This role ensures that all Guidewire configurations integrations and upgrades meet highquality standards through comprehensive test planning execution automation and defect management The QA Lead acts as a bridge between business teams development teams and project managers while guiding the QA team throughout the SDLC

Key Responsibilities

• Test Strategy Planning:

Develop and own the endtoend QA strategy for Guidewire projects
Create detailed Test Plans Test Scenarios and Test Cases covering functional integration regression and UAT testing
Estimate QA efforts define scope and identify risks and dependencies

• Test Execution Management:

Lead and coordinate testing across Guidewire modules such as
PolicyCenter
BillingCenter
ClaimCenter
Digital portals integrations

Validate configurations business rules product models and workflows
Ensure complete coverage of API testing UI testing data validation and environment checks

• Automation Leadership:

Drive automation strategy using
Guidewire Testing Framework Gosu
Selenium Java
REST Assured Postman for API automation

Prioritize regression test automation and maintain automation scripts

• Defect Management:

Log track and analyze defects using tools like JIRA ALM Azure DevOps
Work closely with developers to reproduce troubleshoot and validate fixes
Conduct rootcause analysis to prevent recurring issues

• Team Leadership:

Lead QA team membersassign tasks mentor juniors review test artifacts
Ensure adherence to QA best practices and Guidewire implementation standards
Support crossteam communication and maintain strong client interactions

• Delivery Documentation:

Ensure all QA deliverables are completed on time and with high quality
Prepare dailyweekly status reports and support release planning
Maintain documentation related to test cases traceability matrices and signoffs

Required Skills Experience
Technical Skills
Strong handson experience in Guidewire InsuranceSuite testing
Understanding of Guidewire configurations product models rating workflows PCFs and integrations
Experience with:-
SQL queries data validation
SOAPREST web services
Automation tools Selenium GTF Postman ReadyAPI

Good knowledge of AgileScrum methodologies
Leadership Functional Skills
Ability to lead endtoend QA lifecycle for Guidewire projects
Strong communication stakeholder management and requirementanalysis skills
Experience managing onsiteoffshore QA teams"