Job title: Tester Location: London, UK Job type: Contract (Inside IR35) About the Role As a Guidewire Test Analyst you will be responsible for participating in business requirements review meetings and providing test strategies and scenarios to ensure coverage of requirements for all functionality to be implemented on Guidewire projects. Estimate the test execution, defect management, test automation, and user acceptance effort during sprint planning meetings. What will you do? Develop test plans, approach, and scoping. Establish and implement an approach for managing test data. Analyse requirements to ensure completeness of test cases. Develop test scenarios that reflect the capabilities being established in projects. Work with the Business Analyst to establish proper test coverage and traceability to requirements. Develop test cases with a view to ensure end-to-end functional coverage, as well as potential impact areas for regression. Execute testing, including test preparation and execution, test data creation, and analysis of test results. Provide test coverage and clearance feedback. Analyse test failures and work with the development team to address defects. Develop automation test scripts that are to the high performing technical standards and created using Guidewire best practices. Work with Business Analyst to assist and monitor User Acceptance Testing. Participate in daily standup meetings, sprint planning and retrospective. Participate in POC to support new opportunities. Guide and mentor junior testers. Contribute to continuous improvement of requirements and software quality processes. What are we looking for? 4 years Guidewire Property & Casualty insurance product (PC, BC or CC) testing experience. 4 years automation testing skills (Selenium, Katalon, GT-UI, GT-API). Web services testing / API testing skills is a plus. Database testing knowledge is a plus. 4 years working experience in at least one of the Guidewire InsuranceSuite products (PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, BillingCenter or Digital Portal) from a functional perspective. Experience in functional and non-functional (performance, security, regulatory and compliance) testing. Knowledge of Software Quality Assurance across the SDLC. Understanding of the use of Test Metrics to support risk assessment and decision making. Experience in Requirements Management, Test Management and Defect Management tools, like Jira and Xray. Knowledge of the AGILE methodology/Scaled Agile Framework, SDLC processes will be an added advantage. Strong verbal and written communication skills. What is nice to have? Testing Certification (ISTQB Certified Tester). Prior client facing testing experience. Azure/AWS Cloud experience. Guidewire Testing Certification on current solutions.