QA Engineer

Required Skills and Experience

• Proven experience as a QA or Test Engineer, with strong manual testing skills (test design, execution, defect management and regression testing).
• Experience testing applications on HP NonStop (Tandem) systems.
• Experience testing software built with COBOL, SCOBOL, TAL, C, TACL and Enform, or the ability to read this code well enough to design effective tests. Developer-level coding is not required.
• Working knowledge of SQL/MP and SQLCI, and of SQL Server Management Studio.
• Experience testing MQ-based messaging flows.
• Familiarity with Zephyr Scale for test case management and reporting within Jira.
• Background in financial services, securities or payments applications.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and running automated tests as part of a build.
• Working knowledge of the software testing life cycle and defect life cycle in an Agile or hybrid delivery model.
• Hands-on experience with test automation, including web UI automation (Playwright preferred; comparable tools such as Selenium or Cypress are a plus).
• Ability to write and run SQL queries to validate data.
• Experience testing APIs and web services (REST/WebApi) with tools such as Postman, and working with XML and JSON data.
• Experience with Jira for defect and work tracking.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with close attention to detail.

Technology Stack and Tools

The project uses the technologies below. Testers need to be comfortable working with them, not building in them.

AreaTechnologiesExpectationPlatformHP NonStopTest directly on the platformLanguages (application code)COBOL, SCOBOL, TAL, CExperience testing software built with these is valuableScripting and queriesTACL, Enform, SQLCIUse to run and verify testsDatabasesSQL/MP, SQL Server (SQL Server Management Studio)Query and validate dataIntegrationMQ, XML/JSON, WebApi/RESTTest interfaces and payloadsTest automationPlaywrightAutomate web functionalityTest and defect managementJira, Zephyr ScaleManage test cases, cycles and defects

Required Skills and Experience

• Proven experience as a QA or Test Engineer, with strong manual testing skills (test design, execution, defect management and regression testing).
• Experience testing applications on HP NonStop (Tandem) systems.
• Experience testing software built with COBOL, SCOBOL, TAL, C, TACL and Enform, or the ability to read this code well enough to design effective tests. Developer-level coding is not required.
• Working knowledge of SQL/MP and SQLCI, and of SQL Server Management Studio.
• Experience testing MQ-based messaging flows.
• Familiarity with Zephyr Scale for test case management and reporting within Jira.
• Background in financial services, securities or payments applications.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and running automated tests as part of a build.
• Working knowledge of the software testing life cycle and defect life cycle in an Agile or hybrid delivery model.
• Hands-on experience with test automation, including web UI automation (Playwright preferred; comparable tools such as Selenium or Cypress are a plus).
• Ability to write and run SQL queries to validate data.
• Experience testing APIs and web services (REST/WebApi) with tools such as Postman, and working with XML and JSON data.
• Experience with Jira for defect and work tracking.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with close attention to detail.

Technology Stack and Tools

The project uses the technologies below. Testers need to be comfortable working with them, not building in them.

AreaTechnologiesExpectationPlatformHP NonStopTest directly on the platformLanguages (application code)COBOL, SCOBOL, TAL, CExperience testing software built with these is valuableScripting and queriesTACL, Enform, SQLCIUse to run and verify testsDatabasesSQL/MP, SQL Server (SQL Server Management Studio)Query and validate dataIntegrationMQ, XML/JSON, WebApi/RESTTest interfaces and payloadsTest automationPlaywrightAutomate web functionalityTest and defect managementJira, Zephyr ScaleManage test cases, cycles and defects