What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mainframe Tester position at Ampstek?
Mainframe Tester -
Frisco, TX (Locals Preferred)
Relevant Experience: 9 Years
The Quality Assurance Engineer is to implement best practice testing techniques and perform testing as part of the software development life cycle. The Analyst should have strong knowledge of generally accepted testing practices and Fiserv business rules as well as the testing and development processes. Under minimum supervision and adhering to established procedures for quality assurance, this engineer should be able to test and analyze software components to ensure usability and applicability to the business environment.
Key Responsibilities:
• Develop and execute manual and automated test plans, test cases, and scripts.
• Experience setting up test data and test environments
• Work with developers to resolve defects and issues.
• Create test cases and scripts that can be used by end-users to conduct UAT and/or Pilot Testing.
• Interpret test data and interface with development teams and management.
• Track and report test results for the product's compliance to the functional specifications.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define acceptance criteria and ensure test coverage.
• Identify, document, and track software defects using tools like JIRA.
• Participate in Agile/SCRUM ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Conduct non-functional testing such as performance, load, and security testing.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of test automation frameworks.
• Advocate for continuous quality improvement and best practices in QA processes.
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree or a minimum of 5 years of experience demonstrating required skills and competencies.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in software quality assurance development and testing.
• Functional and System regression test experience.
• Knowledge of Agile Methodology.
• Work with scrum team in developing sprint plans.
• Complete assigned tasks within the sprint timeline and with high quality.
• Database experience including DB2, and/or relational database knowledge.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience in Agile Software Development methodologies including Scrum.
• Can-do attitude with a delivery focus.
• Experience in the financial services or fintech industry.
• Knowledge of Data Warehouse/Data Mining would be a plus.
• Experience setting up test data and test environments.
• Distributed testing skills, knowledge of protocols, database file structures, and exposure to both on-line and batch based systems.