Summary

Join Guidewire’s Product Development and Operations (PDO) team, where we deliver operational excellence and transformative innovation for the world’s leading P&C insurance software. Our team is at the forefront of AI, cloud, and data platform adoption, working collaboratively in a hybrid environment to ensure our solutions are secure, scalable, and deliver measurable value for customers. We thrive on curiosity, continuous improvement, and a culture that values diverse perspectives and teamwork.

As an SDET III, you will play a critical role in advancing our automation and quality engineering practices. You’ll help shape the future of our SaaS analytics and microservices by designing robust test automation frameworks and leveraging AI for comprehensive testing. This is an exciting opportunity to drive innovation, ensure product reliability, and contribute directly to Guidewire’s mission of transforming the insurance industry through technology.

Job Description

What you’ll do

• Design and develop end-to-end test automation for customer scenarios across Guidewire’s SaaS analytics and microservices solutions.
• Build and maintain automation frameworks and tools to support continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Create dashboards to track and communicate product quality metrics.
• Spend over 90% of your time hands-on with automation, driving efficiency and reliability.
• Test and automate distributed systems, focusing on scalability, availability, and data security.
• Develop and execute test strategies for microservices, ensuring high standards of durability, reliability, and fault-tolerance.
• Leverage and develop AI agents to enhance testing coverage and analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed GenAI and automation into daily operations and product offerings.
• At Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI—empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.

What you’ll bring

Required

• Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your current role as well as data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.
• Minimum 5+ years of relevant work experience in software development or test automation.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, JavaScript, or similar scripting languages.
• Experience with serialization frameworks such as Avro or Parquet.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts (consistency, availability, durability, reliability, fault-tolerance, consensus algorithms).
• Expertise in REST API testing and automation, preferably using Karate or Cucumber.
• Proficiency with UI automation tools (Selenium WebDriver, TestCafe, Playwright).
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Analytical mindset with a strong bias toward automation and continuous improvement.
• Eagerness to learn new technologies and a passion for innovation.

Preferred

• Practical experience developing or leveraging GenAI and AI agents for testing.
• Experience in building dashboards and reporting tools for quality metrics.

Your Impact

We believe in clarity and setting you up for success. In your first six months, you’ll design and implement automation frameworks, contribute to the adoption of GenAI in testing, and deliver measurable improvements in product quality and deployment speed. Your work will directly support Guidewire’s goals of operational excellence and transformative innovation, ensuring our customers receive reliable, secure, and cutting-edge solutions. Over time, your contributions will help shape the future of insurance technology and elevate the standards of quality engineering across the organization.

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 540+ insurers in 40 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 1600+ 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.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

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.