Your Role and Responsibilities- As the IBM zSystems back end developer, you will be responsible for
- dentifying existing manual test scenarios and workloads and design programmatic automation to replace them
- Executing a variety of stress and functional tests by working with dev teams towards developing programmatic automation
- Growing knowledge of physical server design and logical constructs behind its operation
- Hardware handling, maintenance, changes and manipulation
- Working with multiple Z mainframe operating systems to execute workloads that are used to verify the latest hardware and firmware deliveries
- Large amount of troubleshooting, investigation and problem resolution
- Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Development, maintenance and enhancement of web based and command line based test frameworks.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- 3 – 5 years of experience: Java, J2EE
- Writing test automation using languages such as Selenium, Perl, Python, bash shell scripting etc.
- Solid understanding of the Windows and Linux operating systems and their command line operations, file systems, and operations
- Outstanding communication skills are key to working within Engineering System Test and with development teams around the world
- Strong team player with good communication (verbal/written) and interpersonal skills
- Ability and drive to dive into unknown hardware architectures and operating systems and grow new technical skills
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- 2+ years of experience working with Z mainframe systems in some capacity
- Experience with one or more mainframe operating systems.
- Experience with practical applications of the mainframe
- Experience writing and executing test plans with the ability to ensure proper coverage based on customer requirements and workloads, and perform regression testing
- Hardware troubleshooting skills
- Knowledge of Agile practices
- Ability to handle testing and debugging tasks independently.