Key Responsibilities

- Analyze business requirements, functional specifications, and user stories for Mainframe-based applications.

- Design and execute test cases, test scenarios, and test data for functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing

- Validate business processes including:Recent Business, Policy Issuance, Policy Servicing, Endorsements, Renewals, Claims Processing, Billing & Payments

- Perform testing across applications and Mainframe systems to ensure data integrity and business process continuity.

- Validate interfaces and integrations between: Mainframe Applications, Third-party systems, APIs and Web Services

- Execute Mainframe testing involving:COBOL batch jobs validation, JCL execution monitoring, VSAM/File validations, CICS transaction testing, DB2 data verification

- Perform API testing using Postman or similar tools.

- Conduct database validation using SQL queries.

- Raise, track, and retest defects using JIRA, Azure DevOps, or ALM.

- Collaborate with Business Analysts, Developers, Architects, and Client stakeholders.

- Support SIT, UAT, Production Validation, and Release Testing activities.





- Prepare test execution reports, defect summaries, and quality metrics.

Requirements

Required Skills:
- Good understanding of Mainframe technologies: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM

- Experience in batch processing validation and file comparison testing.

- Ability to analyze Mainframe job logs, abends, and data issues.

- Experience validating Mainframe integrations.

Testing Skills
- Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, and Defect Life Cycle.

- Functional, System, Integration, Regression, and End-to-End Testing.

- API Testing using Postman/SoapUI.

- SQL and data validation.

- Agile/Scrum methodology experience.

Experience
- 4 to 7 years of overall QA/Test experience.

- 2+ years of platform testing experience.

- 2+ years of Mainframe testing experience.

- Experience working in large-scale transformation programs.

Preferred Skills
- Exposure to Automation Testing (Selenium, Playwright, UFT).

- Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices.

- ISTQB Certification preferred.

- Exposure to cloud-based solutions.

📌 Mainframe QA/ Test Engineer (Pune)
🏢 Nexus
📍 Pune