SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LEAD - GUIDEWIRE
£75000 - £80000 per annum
Fully Remote
About the role
As a hands-on, forward-thinking Technical Engineering Lead you'll drive excellence across our Digital and PolicyCenter platforms. With the opportunity to shape best practice and mentor growing talent, you'll play a critical part in our evolving Guidewire ecosystem, with a strong focus on React and front-end digital services.
you'll take a senior leadership role across our digital-facing Guidewire platforms, including CustomerEngage and PolicyCenter. Responsible for championing high standards in coding, architecture, quality, and performance you'll work across multiple Scrum teams as a floating subject matter expert. To ensure solutions align with both immediate delivery needs and long-term strategic goals, you'll offer hands-on support, drive consistency, and provide valuable oversight.
About you
You thrive on clear, confident communication and confidently engage with stakeholders at all levels. You build trust quickly, and influence decision-making through insight and storytelling. You instinctively act as a trusted advisor and readily translate complex ideas into compelling narratives that drive action and deliver real impact.
Essential skills and experience
* Extensive development experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter, CustomerEngage and Jutro framework
* Strong Front End development background including React, html, CSS and JavaScript
* Strong technical leadership in an Agile software development environment
* Ability to influence technical direction and articulate complex ideas clearly to varied audiences
* Comfortable working across multiple Scrum teams as a technical mentor and quality gatekeeper
* Solid understanding of Guidewire principles and out-of-the-box functionality
Desirable
* Guidewire ACE certification or equivalent demonstrable experience
* Experience with SaaS-based Guidewire deployments
* Exposure to DevOps tools and CI/CD practices
* Experience with nodejs
When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:
* Salary £75,000 per annum
* Annual bonus (up to 20% of salary)
* Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
* 28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
* A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
* Private medical insurance + options to add family members
* Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
* £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership - subject to T&Cs
* Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
* Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
* Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
* Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
* Employee discounts of 15% on a range of insurance policies.
We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.
We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background
01/06/2025
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LEAD - GUIDEWIRE
£75000 - £80000 per annum
Fully Remote
About the role
As a hands-on, forward-thinking Technical Engineering Lead you'll drive excellence across our Digital and PolicyCenter platforms. With the opportunity to shape best practice and mentor growing talent, you'll play a critical part in our evolving Guidewire ecosystem, with a strong focus on React and front-end digital services.
you'll take a senior leadership role across our digital-facing Guidewire platforms, including CustomerEngage and PolicyCenter. Responsible for championing high standards in coding, architecture, quality, and performance you'll work across multiple Scrum teams as a floating subject matter expert. To ensure solutions align with both immediate delivery needs and long-term strategic goals, you'll offer hands-on support, drive consistency, and provide valuable oversight.
About you
You thrive on clear, confident communication and confidently engage with stakeholders at all levels. You build trust quickly, and influence decision-making through insight and storytelling. You instinctively act as a trusted advisor and readily translate complex ideas into compelling narratives that drive action and deliver real impact.
Essential skills and experience
* Extensive development experience with Guidewire PolicyCenter, CustomerEngage and Jutro framework
* Strong Front End development background including React, html, CSS and JavaScript
* Strong technical leadership in an Agile software development environment
* Ability to influence technical direction and articulate complex ideas clearly to varied audiences
* Comfortable working across multiple Scrum teams as a technical mentor and quality gatekeeper
* Solid understanding of Guidewire principles and out-of-the-box functionality
Desirable
* Guidewire ACE certification or equivalent demonstrable experience
* Experience with SaaS-based Guidewire deployments
* Exposure to DevOps tools and CI/CD practices
* Experience with nodejs
When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:
* Salary £75,000 per annum
* Annual bonus (up to 20% of salary)
* Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
* 28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
* A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
* Private medical insurance + options to add family members
* Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
* £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership - subject to T&Cs
* Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
* Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
* Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
* Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
* Employee discounts of 15% on a range of insurance policies.
We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.
We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background
About Capgemini
With 180,000 people in over 40 countries, Capgemini is one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2015 global revenues of EUR 11.9 billion. Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business, technology and digital solutions that fit their needs, enabling them to achieve innovation and competitiveness. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM, and draws on Rightshore®, its worldwide delivery model.
What the Testing Practice does The Testing Practice is involved in the following activities:
•ManualFunctional testing of industry packages and Products.
e.g. VisionPlus, Flexcube, Calypso, Guidewire, Temenos T24, Clear2Pay etc.
•ManualFunctional testing of applicationstechnologies that are not recognized as industry products e.g. testing of in-house applications, ETL testing, Mainframe testing etc."
•Scripting and execution of functional and regression test cases using automation tools. The tools involved are – HP QTP, Test Complete, Selenium, Rational Functional Tester.
•ETL/Data Testing
Security Testing
•Environment Management
Mobile Testing
•Testing performed to test a system under different workloads and validates the scalability and reliability of the system.
The subcategories in performance testing are Load, Stress, Volume, Spike and Endurance Testing. The tools involved are – HP Loadrunner, IBM Rational Performance Tester, Jmeter .
Main Purpose of Role
The key responsibilities of a Test Automation Engineer are:
• Automate manual test cases using automation tools as part of Scrum team
• Analyze and define automation strategy, solution and write scripts to perform automated testing cycles for Agile projects
• Execute and analysis automation test results
• Lead a team of Testers
Skills and Experience needed
• Proven experience in automation testing in an Agile environment
• Experience working on automation tools such as Selenium & QTP
• Basic understanding and knowledge on Java, HTML
• Hands-on experience with BDD tools like Cucumber, Jbehave, etc.
• Experience in designing and development of automation test framework for Agile projects using BDD/TDD tools
• Good Knowledge of Continuous Integration (CI) systems like Jenkins, Cruise Control, Hudson, Maven, etc.
• Proven people leadership and Management skills
Primary Skills (Must have):
• Good development and scripting skills
• Involved in developing Automation Test framework that integrates with BDD/TDD and Continuous Integration
Secondary Skills (Nice to have):
• Working knowledge of Agile ALM tool like Rally, Version one, JIRA Agile is must
• Agile and Software Testing Certifications are preferred
09/09/2016
About Capgemini
With 180,000 people in over 40 countries, Capgemini is one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2015 global revenues of EUR 11.9 billion. Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business, technology and digital solutions that fit their needs, enabling them to achieve innovation and competitiveness. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM, and draws on Rightshore®, its worldwide delivery model.
What the Testing Practice does The Testing Practice is involved in the following activities:
•ManualFunctional testing of industry packages and Products.
e.g. VisionPlus, Flexcube, Calypso, Guidewire, Temenos T24, Clear2Pay etc.
•ManualFunctional testing of applicationstechnologies that are not recognized as industry products e.g. testing of in-house applications, ETL testing, Mainframe testing etc."
•Scripting and execution of functional and regression test cases using automation tools. The tools involved are – HP QTP, Test Complete, Selenium, Rational Functional Tester.
•ETL/Data Testing
Security Testing
•Environment Management
Mobile Testing
•Testing performed to test a system under different workloads and validates the scalability and reliability of the system.
The subcategories in performance testing are Load, Stress, Volume, Spike and Endurance Testing. The tools involved are – HP Loadrunner, IBM Rational Performance Tester, Jmeter .
Main Purpose of Role
The key responsibilities of a Test Automation Engineer are:
• Automate manual test cases using automation tools as part of Scrum team
• Analyze and define automation strategy, solution and write scripts to perform automated testing cycles for Agile projects
• Execute and analysis automation test results
• Lead a team of Testers
Skills and Experience needed
• Proven experience in automation testing in an Agile environment
• Experience working on automation tools such as Selenium & QTP
• Basic understanding and knowledge on Java, HTML
• Hands-on experience with BDD tools like Cucumber, Jbehave, etc.
• Experience in designing and development of automation test framework for Agile projects using BDD/TDD tools
• Good Knowledge of Continuous Integration (CI) systems like Jenkins, Cruise Control, Hudson, Maven, etc.
• Proven people leadership and Management skills
Primary Skills (Must have):
• Good development and scripting skills
• Involved in developing Automation Test framework that integrates with BDD/TDD and Continuous Integration
Secondary Skills (Nice to have):
• Working knowledge of Agile ALM tool like Rally, Version one, JIRA Agile is must
• Agile and Software Testing Certifications are preferred
About Capgemini
With 180,000 people in over 40 countries, Capgemini is one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2015 global revenues of EUR 11.9 billion. Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business, technology and digital solutions that fit their needs, enabling them to achieve innovation and competitiveness. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM, and draws on Rightshore®, its worldwide delivery model.
What the Testing Practice does The Testing Practice is involved in the following activities:
•ManualFunctional testing of industry packages and Products.
e.g. VisionPlus, Flexcube, Calypso, Guidewire, Temenos T24, Clear2Pay etc.
•ManualFunctional testing of applicationstechnologies that are not recognized as industry products e.g. testing of in-house applications, ETL testing, Mainframe testing etc."
•Scripting and execution of functional and regression test cases using automation tools. The tools involved are – HP QTP, Test Complete, Selenium, Rational Functional Tester.
•ETL/Data Testing
Security Testing
•Environment Management
Mobile Testing
•Testing performed to test a system under different workloads and validates the scalability and reliability of the system.
The subcategories in performance testing are Load, Stress, Volume, Spike and Endurance Testing. The tools involved are – HP Loadrunner, IBM Rational Performance Tester, Jmeter .
Main Purpose of Role
The key responsibilities of a Test Automation Engineer are:
• Automate manual test cases using automation tools as part of Scrum team
• Analyze and define automation strategy, solution and write scripts to perform automated testing cycles for Agile projects
• Execute and analysis automation test results
• Lead a team of Testers
Skills and Experience needed
• Proven experience in automation testing in an Agile environment
• Experience working on automation tools such as Selenium & QTP
• Basic understanding and knowledge on Java, HTML
• Hands-on experience with BDD tools like Cucumber, Jbehave, etc.
• Experience in designing and development of automation test framework for Agile projects using BDD/TDD tools
• Good Knowledge of Continuous Integration (CI) systems like Jenkins, Cruise Control, Hudson, Maven, etc.
• Proven people leadership and Management skills
Primary Skills (Must have):
• Good development and scripting skills
• Involved in developing Automation Test framework that integrates with BDD/TDD and Continuous Integration
Secondary Skills (Nice to have):
• Working knowledge of Agile ALM tool like Rally, Version one, JIRA Agile is must
• Agile and Software Testing Certifications are preferred
09/09/2016
About Capgemini
With 180,000 people in over 40 countries, Capgemini is one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2015 global revenues of EUR 11.9 billion. Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business, technology and digital solutions that fit their needs, enabling them to achieve innovation and competitiveness. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM, and draws on Rightshore®, its worldwide delivery model.
What the Testing Practice does The Testing Practice is involved in the following activities:
•ManualFunctional testing of industry packages and Products.
e.g. VisionPlus, Flexcube, Calypso, Guidewire, Temenos T24, Clear2Pay etc.
•ManualFunctional testing of applicationstechnologies that are not recognized as industry products e.g. testing of in-house applications, ETL testing, Mainframe testing etc."
•Scripting and execution of functional and regression test cases using automation tools. The tools involved are – HP QTP, Test Complete, Selenium, Rational Functional Tester.
•ETL/Data Testing
Security Testing
•Environment Management
Mobile Testing
•Testing performed to test a system under different workloads and validates the scalability and reliability of the system.
The subcategories in performance testing are Load, Stress, Volume, Spike and Endurance Testing. The tools involved are – HP Loadrunner, IBM Rational Performance Tester, Jmeter .
Main Purpose of Role
The key responsibilities of a Test Automation Engineer are:
• Automate manual test cases using automation tools as part of Scrum team
• Analyze and define automation strategy, solution and write scripts to perform automated testing cycles for Agile projects
• Execute and analysis automation test results
• Lead a team of Testers
Skills and Experience needed
• Proven experience in automation testing in an Agile environment
• Experience working on automation tools such as Selenium & QTP
• Basic understanding and knowledge on Java, HTML
• Hands-on experience with BDD tools like Cucumber, Jbehave, etc.
• Experience in designing and development of automation test framework for Agile projects using BDD/TDD tools
• Good Knowledge of Continuous Integration (CI) systems like Jenkins, Cruise Control, Hudson, Maven, etc.
• Proven people leadership and Management skills
Primary Skills (Must have):
• Good development and scripting skills
• Involved in developing Automation Test framework that integrates with BDD/TDD and Continuous Integration
Secondary Skills (Nice to have):
• Working knowledge of Agile ALM tool like Rally, Version one, JIRA Agile is must
• Agile and Software Testing Certifications are preferred
About Capgemini
With 180,000 people in over 40 countries, Capgemini is one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2015 global revenues of EUR 11.9 billion. Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business, technology and digital solutions that fit their needs, enabling them to achieve innovation and competitiveness. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM, and draws on Rightshore®, its worldwide delivery model.
What the Testing Practice does The Testing Practice is involved in the following activities:
•ManualFunctional testing of industry packages and Products.
e.g. VisionPlus, Flexcube, Calypso, Guidewire, Temenos T24, Clear2Pay etc.
•ManualFunctional testing of applicationstechnologies that are not recognized as industry products e.g. testing of in-house applications, ETL testing, Mainframe testing etc."
•Scripting and execution of functional and regression test cases using automation tools. The tools involved are – HP QTP, Test Complete, Selenium, Rational Functional Tester.
•ETL/Data Testing
Security Testing
•Environment Management
Mobile Testing
•Testing performed to test a system under different workloads and validates the scalability and reliability of the system.
The subcategories in performance testing are Load, Stress, Volume, Spike and Endurance Testing. The tools involved are – HP Loadrunner, IBM Rational Performance Tester, Jmeter .
Main Purpose of Role
The key responsibilities of a Test Automation Engineer are:
• Automate manual test cases using automation tools as part of Scrum team
• Analyze and define automation strategy, solution and write scripts to perform automated testing cycles for Agile projects
• Execute and analysis automation test results
• Lead a team of Testers
Skills and Experience needed
• Proven experience in automation testing in an Agile environment
• Experience working on automation tools such as Selenium & QTP
• Basic understanding and knowledge on Java, HTML
• Hands-on experience with BDD tools like Cucumber, Jbehave, etc.
• Experience in designing and development of automation test framework for Agile projects using BDD/TDD tools
• Good Knowledge of Continuous Integration (CI) systems like Jenkins, Cruise Control, Hudson, Maven, etc.
• Proven people leadership and Management skills
Primary Skills (Must have):
• Good development and scripting skills
• Involved in developing Automation Test framework that integrates with BDD/TDD and Continuous Integration
Secondary Skills (Nice to have):
• Working knowledge of Agile ALM tool like Rally, Version one, JIRA Agile is must
• Agile and Software Testing Certifications are preferred
09/09/2016
About Capgemini
With 180,000 people in over 40 countries, Capgemini is one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2015 global revenues of EUR 11.9 billion. Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business, technology and digital solutions that fit their needs, enabling them to achieve innovation and competitiveness. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM, and draws on Rightshore®, its worldwide delivery model.
What the Testing Practice does The Testing Practice is involved in the following activities:
•ManualFunctional testing of industry packages and Products.
e.g. VisionPlus, Flexcube, Calypso, Guidewire, Temenos T24, Clear2Pay etc.
•ManualFunctional testing of applicationstechnologies that are not recognized as industry products e.g. testing of in-house applications, ETL testing, Mainframe testing etc."
•Scripting and execution of functional and regression test cases using automation tools. The tools involved are – HP QTP, Test Complete, Selenium, Rational Functional Tester.
•ETL/Data Testing
Security Testing
•Environment Management
Mobile Testing
•Testing performed to test a system under different workloads and validates the scalability and reliability of the system.
The subcategories in performance testing are Load, Stress, Volume, Spike and Endurance Testing. The tools involved are – HP Loadrunner, IBM Rational Performance Tester, Jmeter .
Main Purpose of Role
The key responsibilities of a Test Automation Engineer are:
• Automate manual test cases using automation tools as part of Scrum team
• Analyze and define automation strategy, solution and write scripts to perform automated testing cycles for Agile projects
• Execute and analysis automation test results
• Lead a team of Testers
Skills and Experience needed
• Proven experience in automation testing in an Agile environment
• Experience working on automation tools such as Selenium & QTP
• Basic understanding and knowledge on Java, HTML
• Hands-on experience with BDD tools like Cucumber, Jbehave, etc.
• Experience in designing and development of automation test framework for Agile projects using BDD/TDD tools
• Good Knowledge of Continuous Integration (CI) systems like Jenkins, Cruise Control, Hudson, Maven, etc.
• Proven people leadership and Management skills
Primary Skills (Must have):
• Good development and scripting skills
• Involved in developing Automation Test framework that integrates with BDD/TDD and Continuous Integration
Secondary Skills (Nice to have):
• Working knowledge of Agile ALM tool like Rally, Version one, JIRA Agile is must
• Agile and Software Testing Certifications are preferred
