Full Description

Some careers shine brighter than others. If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further. HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions. We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Consultant Specialist.

In this role, you will

• Must have strong experience in Mainframe technology (COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, VSAM etc.) to Involve in System Testing, SIT, Functional and Regression Testing Test Cases and its execution.
• Need to Create, Run & execute JCLs in Mainframe, Validate the job status in spool, and have problem solving skills to resolve JCL errors, experience in writing in complex SQL Queries run Mainframe DB post execution.
• Identify and escalate risks and issues to project management and managers, Daily status progress reporting to project stakeholders, senior management, attend project calls and meetings and support e2e SIT, UAT and Penny Test
• Well versed with the different testing methodologies (waterfall, Scrum, Agile etc.), techniques phases tools and can use the same as per the project requirement.
• Execute tests, track and monitor defects/Stories to closure and produce test metrics and test reports using GitHub / Jenkins / using Automation tool etc.
• Must have excellent oral and written communications skills, ability to accept and deliver assistance to meet deadlines, self-directed, organized capable of multi-tasking. Should have good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Should have experience in creating reports in JIRA, sharepoint and confluence etc

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements

• Consultant Specialist in Testing with extensive Mainframe development and Testing experience with 8 + Years minimum experience and should be an SME in Mainframe Testing (zSeries) – JCL, DB2, COBOL, CICS, Endeavour, File Manager, Debugging the programs.
• Knowledge and usage of tools File Manager/File Aid, Xpeditor, Endevor and SPUFI
• Knowledge in Unsecured and secured lending area in Banking products e.g. Personal loans, Consumer loans, Mortgage, BACS (Direct Debit / Direct Credit) payments
• Should be able to view and read the JCLs to the testing environment using production JCLs.
• Should be able to analyze the COBOL, DB2 code when required and analyze abends from spool and usage of debugging tools.