Test Specialist
Yesterday• Westchester, NY
Your role and responsibilities
Test Specialist, IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY and various unanticipated client sites throughout the US (Up to 60% telecommuting permitted)
- Serve as a team leader and provide direction to team members and coordinate the work efforts.
- Act as a subject matter expert for ITS processing and mentor team members on ITS applications.
- Oversee, lead, and coordinate test efforts for small, medium, and complex projects and SSCRs.
- Analyze business requirements and coordinate with business and development team to derive test requirements.
- Enter test scenarios in appropriate platforms.
- Attend daily scrum, scrum of scrums, walk-throughs, and sprint retrospective meetings in which the daily tasks, issues, concerns, and areas are discussed.
- Review and approve test plans based on project needs.
- Conduct meetings with business and IT teams to review the test cases/test plans and get approvals from the stake holders.
- Estimate the level of effort for assigned Project/SSCR and review estimate submissions.
- Coordinate with test data management team for test data needs.
- Oversee various tests like functional, system, integration, user Acceptance, regression testing.
- Provide daily status report to stake.
- Upload test cases, test results in test plan and link test cases to the user stories in Jira or requirements in RDNG.
- Perform tracking and logging of defects with high level of detail, accuracy and informative recreation steps using various defect tracking tools.
- Coordinate with respective DEV teams in defect resolution.
- Monitor test execution activities (end to end) and identify testing risks/challenges upfront and bring them to respective PMs attention.
- Create requirement tractability matrix and test execution reports.
- Prepare test evaluation summary report and review with business.
- Utilize: COBOL, Inter-plan Teleprocessing Systems (ITS), Agile Methodology, JCL, VSAM, and Automation and Provisioning for Testing (APT tool).
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Required: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or related and five (5) years of experience as a Systems Quality Assurance Lead, IT Quality Control Advisor or related. Five (5) years of experience must include utilizing COBOL, Inter-plan Teleprocessing Systems (ITS), Agile Methodology, JCL, VSAM, and Automation and Provisioning for Testing (APT tool). $150280 to $160000 per year. Full time. SN122.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or related and five (5) years of experience as a Systems Quality Assurance Lead, IT Quality Control Advisor or related. Five (5) years of experience must include utilizing COBOL, Inter-plan Teleprocessing Systems (ITS), Agile Methodology, JCL, VSAM, and Automation and Provisioning for Testing (APT tool).
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Client-provided location(s): Westchester, NY
Job ID: IBM-56543
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2025-09-04T18:52:37
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