Purple Drive
Purple Drive is hiring: Mainframe Tester in Pittsburgh
Purple Drive, Pittsburgh, PA, US, 15289
Relevant Experience: 8+ Years
Roles & Responsibilities:
Jira, Scrum, Kanban
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.
- Playwright
- Cucumber/BDD
- Selenium
- Mainframe Testing
- CICD
Jira, Scrum, Kanban