Your Role and Responsibilities- Design and develop tests and workloads to ensure the reliability, capacity, and scalability of the product by working closely with development within an Agile operating model.
- Perform test activities in virtual or real environments for various levels of test including functional, system, integration.
- Container experience, zCX .
- Identify defects and work with development to analyze and resolve.
- Optimize, and automate existing test scenarios.
- Improve existing Test Automation infrastructure and collaborate on test strategies.
- Acquire and utilize IBM Z (LoZ/zOS) skills – system programming, various software/hardware disciplines, etc.
- Agile practices, Jira, GitHub and Jenkins tool knowledge.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- 8+ years of relevant experience
- Experience with the Software Development life cycle; coding, unit test, function or component test, system test andintegration test
- Demonstrated execution experience of Systems project development
- Strong programming skills in C (Willingness to learn Assembler and IBM high level PLX language ) , PLX, JCL, Assembly, Rexx, Java, Javascript, Unix system scripting Shell/Python.
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting
- Ability to learn new tools quickly
- Good communication skills and be able to work effectively in a global team environment.
- Able to guide a team of lesser experienced professionals
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- zOS architecture, System programming
- Familiar with z/OS and z/VM
- Programming languages: MVS JCL, REXX,
- Dump reading using Interactive Problem Control System (IPCS). Ability to interpret logs and dumps
- GIT
- JIRA
- Rational Team Concert (RTC)