QA analyst III

Description

• Resource will be working on the End-to-End (E2E) Testing Team, where the primary focus is testing over 1600+ mainframe jobs in an automated test that approximates production job schedules.
• The E2E test is executed twice per month.
• In addition to testing, the qualified resource will also participate in mainframe preparation and maintenance activities spanning multiple test environments.

Responsibilities

• Perform test environment setup including manual activities needed to test new code.
• Monitor execution of mainframe jobs during E2E tests.
• Resolve environment and application issues found during E2E testing, communicate with developers and systems administrators, and log application defects when necessary.
• Maintain automated job schedule used during E2E testing.
• Maintain IMS unload and loads jobs used to refresh the data in multiple mainframe test environments.
• Executing bi-weekly shadow jobs to refresh all object code in multiple mainframe test environments.
• Small enhancement and maintenance activities to improve the scope and performance of the E2E test.

Top 3 Skills/Experience

Strong mainframe skillset

COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS (7 years minimum experience).

• Strong analytical/problem solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills.

Required Skills/Experience

• Extremely strong mainframe technical background including working knowledge of the following: TSO/ISPF, JES-Master, VSAM, Abend-Aid, File-Aid, Endevor, ARC/BMC, ACF2, CA-1/TMS (Tape Management System), Job/Scan, and Xpediter.
• Proficient debugging and problem solving skills related to mainframe program ABEND resolution.
• Excellent communication skills required - both written and verbal with experience in process creation, self-help documentation, metrics gathering and reporting.
• Excellent skills to support other application development teams with recommendations of best practices, resolutions to application setup issues or environment issues, and enforcement of proper policies and procedures for projects testing in the mainframe test environments.
• Strong experience using Microsoft Outlook and Excel.

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Knowledge of CA-7 and job scheduling experience highly desirable.

Working knowledge of the following additional mainframe skills

CICS, CLIST, REXX, FTP, MQ Series, SPUFI, Strobe.

• PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint usage a plus.
• General knowledge of distributed/web infrastructure as an interface to backend mainframe processing.

Education/Certifications

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, or in a related field such as Information Technology.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.