Enterprise Product Tester

Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities
The IBM Enterprise Products team is looking for Software Developers to join our mission to deliver leading-edge z/OS mainframe offerings. Our squads are autonomous, multi-disciplinary teams, consisting of talented software developers with in-depth knowledge of the z/OS mainframe operating system in new and existing
language standards, hardware design Our developers contribute to the open source and prioprietary Enterprise Product technologies, with proven software development skills.

As a Enterprise Product Tester, you will provide feedback on design/requirements from Quality Assurance perspective. You will :

• Create, update and execute of existing and new regression test cases/suites.
• Enhance, update and maintain to the existing automation frameworks to support the testing.
• Maintain and prepare test environment.
• support the product through maintenance activities such as responding to high severity problems and cases, performing functional and regression testing fixes. ”

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 2-5 years of software development experience
• Experience of z/OS ASM coding including MACRO language.
• Knowledge of coding the basic ASM program elements such as: input parameters/registers,
• addressing mode, save-area, prolog section, mainline section, epilog section, subroutines.
• Familiarity with basic z/OS services, macros, control blocks, I/O access methods, addressing modes.
• Experience of writing reentrant/reusable code. Knowledge of how/when to use CALL LOAD LINK XCTL ATTACH macros.
• Basic z/OS DUMP reading using a dump analysis tool like IPCS.
• Familiarity with basic ISPF application-level services and PANEL language.
• Experience of software development/maintenance in a source control management system.
• Experience with mainframe file types and Data Set types, like VSAM, PDS, PDSE.
• Experience using ISPF/TSO, such as 3.2 and 3.4 to allocate and monitor Data Sets.
• Strong analytical, debugging and problem-solving skills to analyze issues and defects reported by customer-facing and test teams”

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Familiarity with basic TSO services and CLIST coding.
• Software maintenance under SMP/E
• Experience of utilizing a z/OS Data Space.
• Experience of writing SMF user-exits.
• Experience of utilizing z/OS Cross-Memory services
• Experience of utilizing z/OS Cross-Coupling-Facility in a sysplex.
• Familiarity with low level programming (e.g. projects involving assembler or embedded systems, taken courses such as computer architecture, operating systems, microprocessor systems…)
• Strong analytical, debugging and problem-solving skills to analyze issues and defects
• reported by customer-facing and test teams
• Self-motivated towards meeting agreed goals
• Ability to Innovate in the areas of Product Engineering
• Open to Cross Time Zone Collaboration
• Ability to use conference and collaboration tools effectively”