Mainframe Testing [AST]

Job Description

Domain & Technical Expertise 8+ years of software testing experience, including deep hands-on work in both manual and automated frameworks , Playwright, Cucumber Proven track record building endtend test strategies for complex, fronttoback 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. amiliarity 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 Playwright Cucumber/BDD Selenium Mainframe Testing CICD Jira, Scrum, Kanban