Principal QA Developer (Mainframe z/OS) - #445921

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OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

AI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered.

At OpenText, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We're hiring talent AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

Job location: Waterloo, ON,/ Ottawa, ON,/ Richmond Hill, ON, CAN (Hybrid)

As a global leader in secure information management, OpenText empowers businesses to stay ahead of the ever-evolving cyber threats. Our Cybersecurity Enterprise portfolio is formidable, offering innovative solutions that safeguard organizations from malicious attacks, data breaches, and cyber vulnerabilities. By joining our team, you'll be at the forefront of developing and implementing state-of-the-art security technologies, protecting critical assets and sensitive information for clients worldwide.

Your Impact

A Quality Assurance role at OpenText is not just a job; it's an opportunity to make a meaningful impact. You’ll be involved in designing and improving enterprise products. Your impact in identifying inefficiencies and defects early in the development process will help reduce costs for the company and will raise customer satisfaction. As a Quality engineer at OpenText, you are empowered to innovate testing strategies, collaborate across teams, drive continuous improvement, and ensure that every release meets the highest standards of quality.

As a Principal QA Developer, You Will

• Serve as the domain, process, and technical expert for the QA engineer team, leveraging technologies like Confluence for collaboration.
• Provide technical support to enable effective test design, emphasizing continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD) practices.
• Champion efforts to design efficient tests for 100% coverage, implement and maintain continuous testing via CI/CD, and ensure requirements add value to customers.
• Drive test efficacy improvements through test tools, automation, and risk-based testing to discover defects early in development cycles.
• Collaborate with the team on project procedures, demonstrating a solid understanding of testing technologies, automation development, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Provide domain expertise for business needs, engage in cross-department discussions for efficient and high-quality releases, and lead continuous improvement efforts, adopting agile practices and defining quality metrics.
  
  

Must-have Skills

What you need to succeed:

• z/OS 5+ years
• TSO
• SDSF
• JCL
• Rexx
  
  

Desirable Skills

• Continuous Integration (ideally, Jenkins)
• Python 2 & 3
• Robot Framework
• Make
• FTP and SCP
• Source change management systems (ideally, git)
• Bug tracking systems (ideally, Bugzilla)
  
  

IBM Skills

• z/OS Operator commands and JES2 commands
• RACF commands / administration
• General systems programming including IPLs
• Dump reading
• SMP/E
• IBM Utilities
• DASD management
• Assembler, C
• CICS
• OMVS (USS)
• Db2 and HPU
• Experience in an Agile / Scrum team environment
• Encryption / cryptography background helpful
  
  

One Last Thing

OpenText is more than just a corporation, it's a global community where trust is foundational, the bar is raised, and outcomes are owned.

Join us on our mission to drive positive change through privacy, technology, and collaboration. At OpenText, we don't just have a culture; we have character. Choose us because you want to be part of a company that embraces innovation and empowers its employees to make a difference.

OpenText's commitment to diversity and inclusion surpasses legal requirements, evident in our Equal Employment Opportunity Statement of Policy which promotes a respectful and empowering environment for employees of all backgrounds, culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact us at [email protected]. Our proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, enriching OpenText's vibrant workplace.

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