Mainframe Tester

Relevant Experience : 8+ Years

Roles & Responsibilities :

• 8+ years of software testing experience, including deep hands-on work in both manual and automated frameworks , Playwright, Cucumber.
• Proven track record building end to end test strategies for complex, front to back workflows.
• Hands-on experience with legacy mainframe systems : understanding how the mainframe processes data, designing and validating data-migration flows from mainframe to distributed tiers, and testing those migrations in the live mainframe environment.
• Collaboration
• Strong influencer : comfortable partnering with Product, DevOps, Engineering and Operations to embed quality throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Skilled at balancing PODs individual priorities while maintaining a coherent, end-to-end test strategy across both distributed and mainframe platforms. Strategic & Analytical Mindset.
• Experience defining test roadmaps, metrics / KPIs (e.g., defect leakage, test coverage, automation percentage) and continuously improving them.
• Skilled at risk-based testing : prioritizing what to test when timelines are tight and leveraging data to drive coverage decisions.
• Process & Tooling Savvy.
• Hands-on with CI CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, DevOps) to build automation into nightly / regression suites.
• Expert in Playwright for UI automation and Insomnia for API testing.
• Familiarity with modern test management platforms TestRail, qTest and defect-tracking tools JIRA.
• Communication & Stakeholder Management.
• Exceptional verbal and written communicator able to translate technical test results into clear, actionable insights for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proactive in surfacing risks early and driving cross-team alignment on scope, timelines and acceptance criteria.
Required Skills :
• Playwright
• Cucumber / BDD
• Selenium
• Mainframe Testing
• CICD

Jira, Scrum, Kanban