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Your Role and Responsibilities
As the IBM zSystems back end developer, you will be responsible for
dentifying existing manual test scenarios and workloads and design programmatic automation to replace them
Executing a variety of stress and functional tests by working with dev teams towards developing programmatic automation
Growing knowledge of physical server design and logical constructs behind its operation
Hardware handling, maintenance, changes and manipulation
Working with multiple Z mainframe operating systems to execute workloads that are used to verify the latest hardware and firmware deliveries
Large amount of troubleshooting, investigation and problem resolution
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Development, maintenance and enhancement of web based and command line based test frameworks.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
3 – 5 years of experience: Java, J2EE
Writing test automation using languages such as Selenium, Perl, Python, bash shell scripting etc.
Solid understanding of the Windows and Linux operating systems and their command line operations, file systems, and operations
Outstanding communication skills are key to working within Engineering System Test and with development teams around the world
Strong team player with good communication (verbal/written) and interpersonal skills
Ability and drive to dive into unknown hardware architectures and operating systems and grow new technical skills
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
2+ years of experience working with Z mainframe systems in some capacity
Experience with one or more mainframe operating systems.
Experience with practical applications of the mainframe
Experience writing and executing test plans with the ability to ensure proper coverage based on customer requirements and workloads, and perform regression testing
Hardware troubleshooting skills
Knowledge of Agile practices
Ability to handle testing and debugging tasks independently.
