Mainframe Tester

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 12 Month(s)

Skills

Continuous Integration
API QA
Data Migration
Defect Tracking
DevOps
GitLab
JIRA
Analytical Skill
Build Automation
Communication
Continuous Delivery
Cucumber
Jenkins
Software Testing
Stakeholder Management
Test Management
Test Strategy
KPI
Mainframe
Migration
Regression Analysis
Risk-based Testing
Roadmaps
TestRail
Testing
UI
Workflow
Mainframe Testing
Mainframe Tester

Job Details

Position: Mainframe Tester

Location: Pittsburgh, PA (5 Days Work from Office) (Locals Preferred)

Long Term Contract

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
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