R&D QA Mainframe Software Engineer

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Job Description:

This position is responsible for creating, testing, ensuring the quality of and maintaining a product or product line. The R&D QA Software Engineer will perform complex code testing, and debugging tasks as well as provide high-level analysis related to software design and development.

Key Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively within an Agile Team to write high quality, automated QA tests that meet the Definition of Done:

  • Strive to meet team commitments.

  • Create automated unit, system, and acceptance tests.

  • Participate in test plan reviews.

  • Perform unit/module testing of software.

  • Responsible for assigned integration, testing, and deployment tasks.

  • Actively foster continuous team improvement in self and team.

  • Contribute to team retrospectives; help to identify and resolve team impediments.

  • Take ownership of problems and continuously strive to become a better problem solver.

  • Write and maintain documentation to describe program development, logic, coding, testing, changes, and corrections.

Planning

• Identify and capture backlog items local to the team, such as defects and refactors.

• Actively participate in team planning and contributing to team goals.

• Volunteer for and commit to delivering stories and tasks within the iteration.

​Enable Agility

• Work within a self-directed Agile team; commit to work and own the outcome.

• Demonstrate and cultivate a passion for delivering high quality products aligned with customer needs; gain customer exposure to build empathy.

• Employ continuous learning; continue to build domain expertise and keep abreast on new technology, processes, systems and tools.

• May mentor new team members and provide technical feedback.

• Actively communicate and collaborate within the team and across functional boundaries.

• Job-Specific Authority and Scope

• Generally works independently.

• Examples of typical decisions without manager consultation:

  • Volunteer for and commit to delivering stories and tasks within the sprint.

  • Establish your own capacity/velocity for each increment.

  • Take ownership of problems and continuously strive to become a better problem solver.

  • Typically has no direct reports.

  • Typically has no total staff.

  • Typically has a global geographic focus.

  • Typically does not manage a budget.

Business Travel and Physical Demands

• No (or minimal) business travel is expected for this position.

• Office environment. No special physical demands required.

Preferred Education

• Bachelor's degree or global equivalent in a related field.

Work Experience

• Typically, 8 or more years of experience in software development or a related field.

• Required Skills & Competencies

  • Experience with QA best practices

  • Experience with QA automation tools and maintaining QA testing infrastructures

  • Experience working with mainframe products and tools.

  • Experience in test planning, design, and execution

  • Experience in many different types of functional and non-functional testing

  • Experience with z/OS is a must.

General Skills & Competencies

• Demonstrates high personal integrity and ability to earn trust from others.

• Demonstrates a growth mind-set, seeks feedback often, and is effective in continuous personal and professional development.

• Participating in self-directed learning activities aimed at developing deep expertise within the technical domain, including reading relevant publications, participating in domain forums or groups etc.

• Complex problem-solving skills.

• Communications and organization skills.

• Team work skills.

• Leadership skills and ability. Coaching and mentoring skills.

• Desired Mainframe Technical Skills & Experie