Functional Tester (Guidewire) - Insurance

Job Description

QA Tester with 8 years of hands-on experience in software testing. The candidate should have strong knowledge of testing methodologies, SDLC/STLC, and hand-on experience in functional testing. Experience in the insurance domain is a plus but not mandatory.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyse business requirements and functional specifications related to applications.
• Design, develop, and execute test cases and test scenarios.
• Perform Sprint, Regression, Integration, System and System Integration Testing.
• Validate end-to-end insurance workflows (Quote, Bind, Issue , Endorsement, Renewal, Claims).
• Identify, log, track, and retest defects using defect tracking tools.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts, Developers, Project Mangers, Product Owners and Test team.
• Support UAT activities and provide timely assistance to business users.
• Create and manage test data to support UAT if business user requests.
• Provide effort estimations sprint wise for testing tasks in Jira. 

Key Requirements

Essencials:

• 8+ years of experience in Manual Functional Testing.
• Experience in Batch Testing and backend job validation.
• Strong understanding of SDLC & STLC.
• Experience in writing and executing test cases and test scenarios
• Experience working with test management and defect tracking tools such as (JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar)
• Basic knowledge of Java to run and support automation test scripts.
• Ability to create and manage test data for various testing scenarios.
• Basic SQL knowledge for manipulating test data and validate.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Language: Japanese - Business level (JLPT N2 or above)

Nice to Have:

• Experience in the Insurance domain (Policy Administration, Claims, Billing).
• Exposure to Automation Testing tools (Selenium or similar).
• API Testing experience (Postman, REST).
• Understanding of Non-Functional Testing concepts such as performance, Recovery & security testing.
• Test scheduled jobs and batch process, including data preparation.