Mainframe Software Engineer III - QA Testing

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience

• 3+ years of hands-on mainframe testing experience, including test planning, test case design, execution, and defect management

• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within the mainframe technical discipline ( COBOL, DB2, JCL ,VSAM, CICS, MQ)

• Experience with File Aid, Expeditor, Stored Procedures, Endevor, CA-7, NDM, MFTS, s-FTP, XML, CLIST, REXX

• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

• Proficiency in mainframe testing tools such as IBM Debug Tool, Xpediter, File-AID, and ISPF for test data setup and validation

• Experience with batch job testing, JCL validation, and online transaction testing in a mainframe environment

• Solid understanding of regression testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing methodologies for complex mainframe systems

• Experience in test data management, data masking, and test environment configuration on mainframe platforms

• Familiarity with defect tracking and test management tools such as JIRA, ALM, or equivalent

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with test automation frameworks and tools for mainframe applications
• Proficiency in programming languages such Java/Python for scripting
• Testing Frameworks: JUnit, Powermock / Mockito, Cucumber, Mutation Testing, Selenium
• Familiarity with DevOps tools like Jules, Jenkins, Maven