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We are looking for a Mainframe Quality Engineer to ensure the quality, accuracy, and resilience of mainframe-based retail banking and investment applications. You will design and execute test strategies for batch and online processing, drive test automation where possible, and validate that financial and regulatory outcomes are correct.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop test strategies, plans, scenarios, and cases from functional and technical requirements
- Execute functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, and UAT-support testing across mainframe batch and online (CICS/3270) applications
- Validate batch cycles by running and monitoring JCL jobs, verifying output files, DB2 data, and downstream feeds
- Test financial calculations and processing logic, such as interest, fees, trade allocation, income distributions, and registered plan contribution and withdrawal rules
- Verify regulatory and tax reporting outputs, including slips, statements, and confirmations
- Create and manage test data, including masked or synthetic data in line with privacy requirements
- Design and maintain automated regression suites for mainframe, API, and integration layers
- Perform reconciliation and data validation using SQL and mainframe data tools
- Log, triage, and track defects to closure; contribute to root cause analysis
- Support production release validation, smoke testing, and post-implementation verification
- Contribute to quality metrics, risk-based testing, and continuous improvement
- Partner with BAs, developers, operations, and release management in Agile/hybrid delivery
- This role will require a minimum of 3 days per week in the office.
Required Skills and Experience
- [4-8+] years in QA/QE with substantial mainframe testing experience in Canadian retail banking and/or retail investments
- Strong understanding of mainframe batch and online testing, JCL, and job scheduling
- Proficiency in SQL/DB2 for data validation
- Hands-on experience with File-AID, Xpediter, SDSF/ISPF, and similar tools
- Experience with test management and defect tools (Jira, Xray, ALM/Octane, qTest)
- Knowledge of test design techniques, regression strategy, and SDLC/STLC
- Understanding of retail banking and investment products, including registered plans (RRSP, TFSA, RESP, FHSA, RRIF)
- Strong attention to detail, with clear written and verbal communication
- Bachelor’s degree or completion of a college program in a related discipline.
Preferred
- Experience at a major Canadian bank or wealth/investment organization
- Test automation experience for mainframe (Micro Focus UFT, Rocket/Zowe-based tooling, Selenium, Python, REST API testing with Postman or REST Assured)
- Experience with test data management and service virtualization tools
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and shift-left testing for mainframe
- Knowledge of Fundserv, trade settlement, and reconciliation workflows
- Experience with performance and batch window testing
- ISTQB or equivalent certification
- Familiarity with Canadian regulatory expectations (FINTRAC, CIRO/CSA, PIPEDA) and audit/control evidence requirements
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location,
role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time
employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.
It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.
Role Location Annual Salary Range
British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $74,000 to $124,000
