Mainframe Tester

Purple Drive Technologies

$90K — $120K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software testing experience, including manual and automated frameworks
  • Hands-on experience with legacy mainframe systems
  • Strong influencer comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams
  • Skilled in defining test roadmaps and continually improving metrics/KPIs
  • Experience with risk-based testing for tight deadlines
  • Proficient with CI/CD pipelines like Jenkins and GitLab CI
  • Expert in Playwright for UI automation and familiar with modern test management platforms

Responsibilities

  • Build end-to-end test strategies for complex workflows
  • Design and validate data-migration flows from mainframe to distributed tiers
  • Partner with Product, DevOps, Engineering and Operations to embed quality
  • Balance individual priorities while maintaining a coherent testing strategy
  • Define and improve test roadmaps and KPIs continuously
  • Prioritize testing efforts based on risk and data analysis
  • Automate testing and integrate it into CI/CD pipelines

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with legacy systems alongside modern technologies
  • Exposure to strategic collaboration across multiple teams
  • Environment encouraging process improvement and innovation
  • Hands-on involvement in technology-driven testing solutions
  • Flexibility to influence and drive quality across the delivery lifecycle
Full Job Description
Relevant Experience: 8+ Years

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • 8+ years of software testing experience, including deep hands-on work in both manual and automated frameworks , Playwright, Cucumber.
  • Proven track record building end to end test strategies for complex, front to back workflows.
  • Hands-on experience with legacy mainframe systems: understanding how the mainframe processes data, designing and validating data-migration flows from mainframe to distributed tiers, and testing those migrations in the live mainframe environment.
  • Collaboration
  • Strong influencer: comfortable partnering with Product, DevOps, Engineering and Operations to embed quality throughout the delivery lifecycle.
  • Skilled at balancing PODs individual priorities while maintaining a coherent, end-to-end test strategy across both distributed and mainframe platforms. Strategic & Analytical Mindset.
  • Experience defining test roadmaps, metrics/KPIs (e.g., defect leakage, test coverage, automation percentage) and continuously improving them.
  • Skilled at risk-based testing: prioritizing what to test when timelines are tight and leveraging data to drive coverage decisions.
  • Process & Tooling Savvy.
  • Hands-on with CI CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, DevOps) to build automation into nightly/regression suites.
  • Expert in Playwright for UI automation and Insomnia for API testing.
  • Familiarity with modern test management platforms TestRail, qTest and defect-tracking tools JIRA.
  • Communication & Stakeholder Management.
  • Exceptional verbal and written communicator able to translate technical test results into clear, actionable insights for both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Proactive in surfacing risks early and driving cross-team alignment on scope, timelines and acceptance criteria.


Required Skills:

  • Playwright
  • Cucumber/BDD
  • Selenium
  • Mainframe Testing
  • CICD


Jira, Scrum, Kanban

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