Mainframe Tester

Responsibilities:

Test Design and Execution

Provide feedback to customer design and requirements discussions, which help improve the program/product vision and/or scenarios.

Execute testing of highly complex programs/projects.

Innovate in solving difficult test problems.

Act as the go-to person for a program/area.

Consider testability when reviewing the designs which result in more testable features and better test coverage.

Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of business domain.

Apply knowledge of software development process for early discovery of defects and higher quality builds.

Analyze patterns of defects to identify test holes for a feature area.

Facilitate discovery of potential issues through thorough and systemic testing.

Qualifications

Mainframe dev/support/testing experience

JCL, DB2/SQL, CICS testing experience

Familiarity with basic testing concepts: test case creation, test execution, defect management

COBOL knowledge: nice-to-have

System Integration testing experience: nice-to-have

Knowledge of unix commands: nice-to-have

Knowledge of JIRA as test mgt tool: nice-to-have

Using kafka for integration testing: nice-to-have