Innovations technological

Skill Set

Mainframes testing.

Work Location

Minneapolis, MN – USA

Special Instructions

NA

Job Description

Role : Technical Test Lead
Open Positions : 2
Experience : 6+ Yrs
Skill : Mainframes testing.
Duration : 12 months
Location : Minneapolis, MN - USA
Approx. Start date : 07/11/16



Detailed JD
Requirement Summary
· Overall experience of 6+ years.
· Minimum 4+ years of hands on experience in testing and leading mainframe projects.
· Knowledge of brokerage and banking domain.
· Must be willing to work in Global Delivery Model and mentor/support offshore team on a regular basis.

Technical Skillset: (Hands on knowledge mandatory)
· Tools: HP Quality Center, JIRA.
· Mainframes: JCL (Test JCL creation from production JCLs) , PACBASE & COBOL (For reviewing and understanding programs written) , Writing simple SORT CARDS for extraction/formatting.
· Databases: IMS, DB2 and Oracle.

Primary Responsibilities & Objectives:
Ø Coming up an test strategy and testing approach for major program for ST, SIT and UAT phases.
Ø Leading a team of 6+ resources in planning and executing the testing for Mainframe projects.
Ø Ability to co-ordinate with cross commit teams, vendor partners, development teams and business teams for test planning and defect triaging.
Ø Hands on knowledge in mainframes for test JCLs creation, writing simple sort cards for formatting and file conversion.
Ø Knowledge of DB2 and IMS DBs for doing table load/unload, writing simple queries for data extraction/filtration.
Ø Hands on knowledge in troubleshooting mainframe job abends to identify RCA.
Ø Review/track and execute the testing phases for the project as per plan and ability to escalate/highlight issues/risks/concerns and come up with mitigation plans to solve them
Ø Good communication skills.
Ø Ability to capture and provide testing status reports to stakeholders and business leaders.
Ø Good understanding of HP QC/ALM as a tool for defect tracking and traceability.