Mainframe Testing [AST]

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