claimcenter test engineer

Job Title: CLAIMCENTER TEST ENGINEER

Location:
Markham, ON

Position:
Full time/Subcon

Mode:
Hybrid (Mandatorily need to visit office 3 days a week)

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Summary:

• Responsible for reviewing user stories, requirements, and technical design specification documents to provide timely feedback from a Quality Assurance Perspective

• Responsible to Create comprehensive test strategies, test plans, estimates, complex test scenarios and test cases, and lead / execute as per agreed delivery plan.

• Delivering timely testing estimates and scope of work with coverage and traceability to business / test requirements, scenarios, and test cases.

• Provide test artifact walkthroughs to the delivery team for review and feedback.

• Responsible for design / build / update / execution of existing and new regression test suites.

• Performing all aspects of functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing.

• Effective use of testing tools like JIRA/Zephyr to build /modify and execute manual test cases (where applicable) and bugs management.

• Implementing updates to the existing automation frameworks to support the testing.

• Review, propose and implement enhancements to the existing testing tools and processes.

• Proactively identify and manage testing related risks and escalate when required.

• Collaborate with internal teams (e.g. developers, business analysts, scrum masters, product owners) and provide feedback from Testing perspectives.

• Meet occasionally challenging deadlines demand and perform effectively under pressure.

• Maintain a positive, efficient, and collaborative working environment and influence others.

• Being the voice of quality, raising issues when needed, and highlighting delivery risks.

• Ensure compliance with all relevant company IT testing standards / Controls to ensure developed software changes achieve the quality required to satisfy the business needs

Must Have Skills

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Guidewire Suite (GW ClaimCenter, Contact Manager, ClaimCenter Integrations, Downstream and PolicyCenter)

• 5+ years of experience with manual/functional testing, Automation testing

• 5+ years of experience in the P&C Insurance Industry (Auto and Property LOB)

• Strong Knowledge and Understanding of Claims Lifecycle, Integrations, Adjudication, Claims Financial, Recovery and Reinsurance Process

• GW Cloud Certification

• Good technical writing skills and ability to describe clearly complex processes and tasks

• Clear verbal & written communication skills in English

• Great attitude and work ethics (Punctual, Creativity, Detail Oriented and Team player)

• Good understanding of the Software Development / Testing Life Cycle (SD/TLC), and the importance of testing to ensure quality and reliability of the changes.

• Experience with common tools & processes such as JIRA, Zephyr, Browser's developer tools, Agile/Scrum delivery.

• Have strong planning and problem-solving skills that allow effective software testing, identify bugs, and solve software testing delivery issues.

• Flexibility and adaptability to react to changing priorities and effectively manage changing expectations in a calm, professional and pleasant manner.

• ISTQB Certified or equivalent experience

• Aptitude in IT with an interest in expanding your IT skills.

• Ability to quickly learn and become familiar with the software product being tested.

Good to have Skills

• API Testing (Experience in working with XML/JSON, SOAP API, REST API) –

Nice to have

• Knowledge of SQL

• University degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent experience –

• Selenium Framework

• Automation experience in GW frameworks like GT-UI and API