Software Engineer III ( Mainframe ASSEMBLER, HLASM)

Job Description

Summary : The ChangeMan developer designs, develops, troubleshoots, debugs the ChangeMan ZMF product, primarily written in Assembler utilizing z / OS and associated components such as ISPF, REXX, VSAM, DB2 and CICS. Responsibilities will include both maintenance and development of new product features.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

Programming, conducting code reviews, and testing software as needed, ensuring quality of deliverable

Programming, conducting code reviews, and testing software as needed, ensuring quality of deliverables

Execute various forms of testing – unit, system, regression, integration, performance, volume

Work with support in diagnosing, reproducing, and resolving customer issues.

Acts as the technical subject matter expert for a product domain.

Quantify and communicate work estimates and risks to direct management

Handle multiple competing priorities with minimal help

Understand features as a whole and able to break down larger stories and features into tasks

Ensures all tasks are completed thoroughly and that any work done is tested, unit tested, documented, and meets quality standards

Required Qualifications :

• 5 - 8 years of software engineering experience
• Experience in Problem diagnosis, dump reading and debugging (with IPCS a plus)
• Mainframe assembler programming experience
• z / OS utilities, JCL and REXX
• DB2 experience
• CICS experience

Desired (Nice to Have) skills :

Job Family Group : Engineering

Job Family : Software & Quality Assurance Engineering

Job Profile Name : Software Engineer III

Employee Type : Individual Contributor

Job Level : P3 (Career)

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