Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in business application consulting specialise in consulting services for a variety of business applications, helping clients optimise operational efficiency. These individuals analyse client needs, implement software solutions, and provide training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of business applications, enabling clients to achieve their strategic objectives.

As a Guidewire tester at PwC, you will specialise in testing and customising applications using the Guidewire platform. Guidewire is a software suite that provides insurance companies with tools for policy administration, claims management, and billing. You will be responsible for designing, coding, and testing software solutions that meet the specific needs of insurance organisations.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Job Description & Summary

PwC has recently launched the South African Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC). SATIC is designed to innovate, build and deploy for our global clients across a range of technology and transformational solutions.

PwCs ambition to grow through acquisitions and development of new innovative ways to serve clients, mandatory firm rotation, the ongoing climate of regulatory change, and the increased focus on globalisation all mean that PwCs ability to maintain Independence from our audit clients is ever more business critical for PwC.

The Guidewire team has a vital role to play in enabling PwCs growth, whilst protecting our reputation and brand, and the team will be at the heart of change in the firm over the next few years.

If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you.

Why join PwC?

We have tasted the fruit of our success and exciting changes are afoot here at PwC as we seek to take on board an entire new Guidewire Development team as we embark on an era of digital innovation and transformation right across the UK.

About the Role

We have a number of exciting opportunities across a range of roles and disciplines to join our expanding Guidewire/Insurance team. 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? 

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 Analysts to assist and monitor User Acceptance Testing. 

Participate in daily standup meetings, sprint planning and retrospective. 

 

What are we looking for? 

2 plus years Guidewire Property & Casualty insurance product (PC, BC or CC) testing experience. 

2 plus years in Automation testing / Selenium / Katalon / GT-UI & GT-API. 

Web services testing / API testing skills  

Database testing knowledge  

Experience in functional and non-functional (performance, security, regulatory and compliance) testing  

Knowledge of Software Quality Assurance across the SDLC. 

Experience in Requirements Management, Test Management and Defect Management tools, like Jira and Xray. 

Knowledge of the AGILE methodology/Scaled Agile Framework, SDLC processes  

Strong verbal and written communication skills. 

Testing Certification (ISTQB Certified Tester) 

Prior client facing testing experience 

 

What is nice to have? 

Azure/AWS Cloud experience 

Guidewire Testing Certification on current solutions 

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Job Posting End Date

March 13, 2025