Functional/System Test Developer

Your Role and Responsibilities  Who you are: 
The zOS Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS) for IBM Z is seeking
experienced Software Testers (job role includes management and test on large systems) that are
highly driven and technically prepared to join a world-class team which develops the most
challenging and complex systems in the world.
We develop, test and support data management on the z/OS operating system. Nearly 100% of
all credit card transactions, 92% of the top 100 global banks, 90% of Fortune 500 companies,
and 80% of the world's corporate data depend on the IBM Z. For a half-century, the mainframe
has transformed how we travel, enabled secure banking, improved how city agencies service
citizens, and dramatically reduced traffic congestion. We develop leading-edge technologies in
managing data, Cloud technologies, system solutions, and hardware enablement that power the
most secure and reliable system on the planet.
 What you'll do: 
You'll work in a collaborative environment to understand requirements, design, code and test
innovative applications for automation of test on large systems.
You'll employ IBM's Design Thinking to create products that provide a great user experience
along with high performance, security, quality, and stability.
You'll create and execute test plans and test cases that are clean, well-documented, and easy to
use and incorporate real world use cases.
You will verify the design and implementation of large-scale systems that enable continuous
delivery.
 How we'll help you grow: 
You'll have access to all the technical and management training courses you need to become the expert you want to be

You'll have access to all the technical and management training courses you need to become the expert you want to be.

You'll learn directly from expert developers in the field; our team leads like to mentor

You have the opportunity to work in many different areas to figure out what really excites you

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Must Have:

3+ years of relevant experience

Excel at testing large scale enterprise environments.

Experience debugging complex environments and software issues.

Expertise in implementing frameworks and test automation using python.

Exposure to enterprise server and storage systems.

Strong communication skills and fluent in English.

Preferred Professional and Technical Expertise:

Experience using z/OS

Working knowledge of the Assembly Language and/or PL/X

Ability to analyze system output from system ABENDs (logs, traces, dumps)

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.

QA experience

Strong debugging and troubleshooting

Ability to learn new tools quickly

Good communication skills and be able to work effectively in a global team environment.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Python, Python Test Automation, Automation Framework (Selenium/Robot/Pytest)

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)

Jenkins, CI/CD Pipeline, Dev Ops

Ability to analyze system output from system ABENDs (logs, traces, dumps)