Mainframe Testing [AST]

Domain & Technical Expertise

8+ years of software testing experience, including deep hands-on work in both manual and automated frameworks , Playwright, Cucumber
Proven track record building endtend test strategies for complex, fronttoback 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 
Playwright
Cucumber/BDD
Selenium
Mainframe Testing
CICD
Jira, Scrum, Kanban