Mainframe QA Lead

• The Mainframe QA Lead will be a hands-on lead who excels in a dynamic, fast-moving, and agile environment and is passionate about ensuring high quality, scalable software.
• The candidate will work with a team of seasoned engineers, product owners, and business analysts, whose main objective is to maintain all aspects of the overall software development lifecycle and ensure the on-time, quality delivery of software product releases.
• Ideal candidates enjoy fast-paced environments, thrive under pressure, and embrace change passionately.
• The successful candidate has experience in a technical QA lead role in a Mainframe environment and can analyze, test, and direct other QA professionals to ensure that all software accurately aligns with the needs of business, while also adhering to regulatory needs.

Technical Experience

• 10+ years of experience in mainframe technologies COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL, SQL Stored Procedures, Messaging Queues (IBM MQ, Kafka), CICS, Easytrieve, Datacom, SORT utilities. REXX required for QA automation / SDET roles.
• 5+ years of QA end-to-end testing experience in Finance and Brokerage industry, including working with Regulatory bodies such as DTCC and SEC.
• 7+ years in scheduling tools such as Control-M, ChangeMan, FileAid, Startool, TOAD, and SPUFI. BlueZone Session Manager scripting required for QA Automation / SDET role.
• Experience in understanding and articulating enterprise level systems and data flows to aid with QA involving testing, development, and implementation of Mainframe based applications and databases.
• It is imperative that the candidate has excellent and strong RCA (Root Cause Analysis) skills and identifying the possible solutions to the identified issues at complex enterprise applications/systems.
• Thorough understanding of Agile software development methodologies, ART, including Scrum and Kanban via tools such as JIRA and Rally.
• Strong experience in collaborating with business and technical teams to understand requirements and impact analysis by working with PO (Product Owners), Business Owners, SM (Scrum Masters), SME (Subject Matter Experts), Tech Leads, and upstream/downstream organizations.
• Microsoft Office Tools proficiency
  

Professional Experience

• 1. Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, influencing, prioritization, decision- making and conflict resolution skills
  2. Self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-c