Mainframe Tester

Job Title: Mainframe Tester- (This is an ONSITE position.)

Work Location:  New York, NY 

Duration of Contract:  36 Months

SCOPE OF SERVICES 

The Financial Information Services Agency and Office of Payroll Administration (FISA-OPA) has a vacancy for System Integration Tester to support ongoing system enhancements of the HR, Benefits, Pension and Payroll functions. Under the direction of the Testing Manager, the system Tester shall have the primary responsibility of ensuring the quality of the software and any associated custom development to meet the City’s functional and technical requirements and enable FISA to operate and maintain the software application in a cost effective manner after the implementation. The System Intergation Tester will be responsible for data analysis, review of functional requirements and technical designs to create robust test cases, execution and documenting test results, reporting issues, re-testing fixes. The Systems Tester will work on testing integration of mainframe with other systems, customizations, upgrades and patches across multiple environments. This candidate will work closely with the Project Manager, Business Analysts, Developers, and key business partners to test, and implement product initiatives to support systems. This person also needs to have the ability to work independently and prioritize tasks to meet project deadlines.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain formal test cases for specific releases based on the business requirements and technical specifications;

• Execute test scripts/cases for releases or on-going maintenance and record test results in ALM / Quality Center (QC);

• Report defects in ALM / Quality Center (QC), provide development team with necessary defect documentation, re-test fixes and record results;

• Perform data mining to ensure proper test population coverage for test cases;

• Assume responsibility for timely test cases completion to achieve targeted system cycles dates ;

• Timely reporting of all critical milestones and slipping deadlines to the Testing Lead;

• Work on multiple projects and ability to shift the effort based on the timelines established;

• Conducting peer reviews prior to test execution (i.e., proper test cases coverage, test cases documented appropriately);

• Working with developers and system analysts on resolving any open questions while working on test cases preparation;

• Working with automation team on debugging automation scripts.

Qualifications:

• 5 + years of hands-on experience in Testing Mainframe applications.

• 5 + years of hands-on experience in COBOL/IMS/DB2/ JCL/PROCS/CTLCARDS

• Experience in RMDS/XPEDITER/File-Aid for IMS/DB2

• Extensive experience with Oracle and DB2database.

• Strong understanding of standard STLC methodologies, ability to understand and transform business requirements and technical designs into the test cases.

• Extensive experience in Manual Functional Testing such as creating test plan, building and executing manual test scripts.

• Experience using ALM / Quality Center (QC) for creating, executing test cases and tracking defects.

• Experience using IBM Rational Suite (Clear Case, Clear Quest etc.)

• QA experience using manual and automated testing tools and processes to perform functional, regression and performance testing.

• Proficiency running back-end/database queries for data set-up and verification (DB2 and Oracle)

• Experience in developing and maintaining automated HP Quick Test Pro (QTP) scripts using Keyword Driven Framework and Descriptive programming is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with an enterprise wide, large-scale implementation.

• Excellent Communications skills (Oral and written), interpersonal, and organizational skills are required.

Education:

Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or in a Technical/Business Discipline is required.