Mainframe Tester

Role :: Mainframe Tester

Location :: Pittsburgh, PA Onsite

Duration :: Long Term Contract

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