• Design and Develop Test Strategies for various z/OS Components, features.
• Function as a test Engineer who is fully hands-on.
• Write test documents, review design and test documents, script and automate tests, execute manual and automated tests, file and verify defects. This is for new pre-GA releases and maintenance releases.
• Communicate with team members about the usage of the test environment, changes to the environment, and any issues seen within the environment that may hinder the team's progress.
• Monitor status of test systems (Driver levels, software installs, network connectivity overall system health)
• Create new or enhance existing automation scripts for:
• Creating workloads of varying stress levels
• Verifying success within workloads
• Gathering documentation showing test results
• Monitoring health of systems (CPU usage, Storage management, etc.)
• Own and monitor overnight, weekend stress runs, and write results report.
• Prepare status updates and present to the management.
• Identify opportunities for commserver enhancements and define validation plans.
• Collaborate with global teams, development squad and attend customer calls.
• Look for improvements in Software Development life cycle.

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Operating system background knowledge and navigation experience
• File system background knowledge and navigation experience
• TCP/IP Networking knowledge
• Network application and commands for navigating between systems or for debugging (e.g. netstat, ping, traceroute, ftp, ssh, etc.)
• Experience in script programming for test automation (authoring new or interpreting and enhancing existing scripts).

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Mainframe, z/OS knowledge
• REXX, USS, JCL script programming for test automation, authoring new or interpreting existing scripts.
• Experience in Development Repositories (JIRA, RTC, GITHUB, etc.)