Lead QA Engineer – Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance
Location: Remote / Hybrid / Onsite
Employment Type: Contract
Experience: 12+ Years
Domain: Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance
Visa: , Only
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Lead QA Engineer with 12+ years of Quality Assurance/QE experience and strong hands-on expertise in the Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance domain.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record leading QA activities for complex insurance applications, including policy administration, underwriting, claims, billing, and policy lifecycle processes. The candidate should be comfortable working across functional, integration, regression, API, database, and automation testing.
Experience with Guidewire InsuranceSuite is highly preferred.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead QA strategy, planning, estimation, execution, and delivery for P&C insurance applications.
- Analyze business and technical requirements and develop comprehensive test strategies, scenarios, and test cases.
- Lead functional, system, integration, regression, end-to-end, SIT, and UAT testing.
- Validate P&C insurance business processes across the complete policy and claims lifecycle.
- Lead defect identification, triage, root-cause analysis, tracking, and resolution.
- Coordinate with Business Analysts, Developers, Product Owners, Architects, and business stakeholders.
- Review test cases, test scripts, automation scripts, and QA deliverables.
- Mentor QA engineers and provide technical guidance and leadership.
- Develop and maintain regression test suites.
- Perform API testing using REST/SOAP services and tools such as Postman or SOAP UI.
- Perform backend and database validation using SQL.
- Support and enhance test automation frameworks using Selenium, Java, TestNG, Cypress, Playwright, or similar technologies.
- Track QA metrics, defect trends, test coverage, execution status, and release readiness.
- Identify testing risks, dependencies, and quality gaps and communicate them to project leadership.
- Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and contribute to continuous QA process improvements.
Required P&C Insurance Experience
Candidates must have strong hands-on experience with Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance applications and processes, including:
- Policy Administration
- Underwriting
- New Business
- Quote & Bind
- Policy Issuance
- Renewals
- Endorsements
- Cancellations
- Reinstatements
- Rating
- Coverage
- Claims Management
- FNOL – First Notice of Loss
- Claims Processing
- Reserves
- Payments
- Recoveries
- Settlements
- Billing
- Policy Lifecycle
- Claims Lifecycle
- Personal Lines and/or Commercial Lines
Required Technical Skills
- 12+ years of QA/QE experience
- Mandatory P&C Insurance domain experience
- Lead-level QA experience
- Strong functional and integration testing experience
- Strong regression and end-to-end testing experience
- Experience with SIT and UAT
- API/Web Services testing
- SQL and database testing
- Defect management and root-cause analysis
- Strong understanding of SDLC and STLC
- Agile/Scrum experience
- Jira, ALM, Azure DevOps, or similar tools
Automation Skills
Hands-on experience with one or more of the following:
- Selenium
- Java
- TestNG
- Cypress
- Playwright
- REST API
- Postman
- SOAP UI
- Jenkins
- Git
- CI/CD
Preferred – Guidewire Experience
Experience with Guidewire InsuranceSuite is highly preferred, including one or more of:
- Guidewire PolicyCenter
- Guidewire ClaimCenter
- Guidewire BillingCenter
- Guidewire Cloud
- Guidewire Policy Administration
- Guidewire Claims
- Guidewire Billing
Leadership Responsibilities
- Define QA strategy and testing approach.
- Lead onshore/offshore QA teams and coordinate testing activities.
- Review and approve test plans, test cases, and automation coverage.
- Mentor and guide QA engineers.
- Manage testing schedules and deliverables.
- Drive defect prevention and continuous quality improvement.
- Provide QA status, metrics, risks, and release-readiness reports to stakeholders.
- Ensure adequate test coverage across critical P&C insurance workflows.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field preferred.
- 12+ years of professional QA/QE experience.
- Recent and strong Property & Casualty Insurance experience is mandatory.
- Proven experience in a Lead QA Engineer / QA Lead capacity.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Visa Requirements
Only the following candidates will be considered:
- (USC)
- (GC)
- EAD
No H1B, OPT, CPT, or sponsorship.
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