Mainframe CICS QA Engineer - End-to-End Testing Expert

HCL Technologies Limited

Taguig

On-site

PHP 600,000 - 900,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Job summary

HCL Technologies Limited is seeking a QA Engineer to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of enterprise IBM mainframe applications with a focus on CICS-based online processing. You will design, execute, and oversee functional and integration tests across online and batch workflows, log defects, and coordinate with cross-functional teams.

Bring 3–7 years of QA experience, hands-on mainframe testing including COBOL/JCL/DB2, and strong analytical skills to drive test strategy,

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Typically 3-7 years of software quality assurance experience, including at least 2 years of hands-on mainframe and CICS testing.
Demonstrated experience owning test activities for medium- to high-complexity changes across multiple systems.

Responsibilities

Review business, functional, and technical requirements; identify test conditions, dependencies, risks, and coverage gaps.
Develop and maintain test strategies, test plans, scenarios, test cases, test data, traceability, and execution evidence.
Execute functional, regression, integration, system, smoke, and end-to-end testing for CICS transactions, batch jobs, files, databases, interfaces, and downstream systems.
Validate screen flows, field edits, transaction responses, abends, recovery behavior, audit trails, and data integrity across online and batch processing.
Verify JCL execution, job steps, return codes, spool output, restart and recovery procedures, and file generation or reconciliation.
Query and validate data in DB2 and inspect VSAM or sequential files using approved mainframe utilities.
Prepare and refresh test data while observing security, privacy, and environment controls.
Log, triage, retest, and track defects to closure; provide clear reproduction steps, evidence, severity, and business impact.
Collaborate with developers, business analysts, product owners, release teams, and production support to resolve issues and assess release readiness.
Participate in requirement reviews, estimation, daily status reporting, test reviews, release validation, and post-implementation verification.
Identify suitable regression scenarios for automation and contribute to reusable test assets, standards, and continuous improvement.
Support root-cause analysis for production incidents and verify corrective changes without disrupting existing functionality.