Mainframe Testing professionals

Company Description: LinkTag is a dynamic firm, where all of us here have a single motivation to succeed and our success is defined by our clients, making that as our ultimate objective. We extend our services to hiring resources on staffing basis- fulltime, contracting and consulting and/or working on fixed price proposals for deployment of teams. These technical and skilled teams are flexible to work from any locations – your clients, or ours. We also help you fulfill your needs at other global locations as well. Looking for mainframe testing professionals for Bangalore location. Need 3 to 7 years experience in mainframe testing Candidates should be JLPT level 2 certified Japanesh Language prefered. Area  of Responsibility - Testing Resources for projects and BAU (per SOW) - Testing content (Strategy, Test Planning & Test Effort estimations) - Testing PracticesKey Responsibilities - Manages and optimizes the capacity (internal and external) in line with the budget and the sourcing strategy  of ATC for the respective customer - Delivers the Test Strategy and Test Planning for the Key projects and reviews the Test Strategy and Test Planning for the other projects within his/her SDU - Supports and monitors the effective deployment of Test & Quality practices in collaboration with the Quality Assurance Manager/ATC - Responsible for all Test Services performed by ATC for the respective SDU (System, Integration, Acceptance…) - In charge of  the knowledge transition - Implements and delivers ATC Assets - Delivers weekly reporting on the test mission to Country Test Manager - Attends Test Management & Project Meetings, as requiredBudgetary Responsibilities - Manages budget related to testing covering the Project / BAU including effort (in man days), capacity (FTE, Skills, Knowledge, Training) and revenue. - Supports relationship with the external partners for the Project / BAU in line with the Sourcing and Vendor Management StrategyResourcing Responsibilities - Is responsible for the resource planning of the test resources within the SDU - Responsible for the support, the evaluation and evolution of the resources - Validates and manages time-sheets for his/her scope - The person should also ensure that a program eg.. mainframe projects that are bundled under a program are conducted on time with quality - Forecasting / actual tracking - Quality of service - Vendor management  - Test strategy creation and putting together proposal or charter for project / program execution - Immediate deployment - Experience in MVS/Z-OS system - Experience of testing in Mainframes with excellent knowledge of JCL/VSAM - Good knowledge of Cobol/DB2/IMS - Good knowledge of File Manager, File-aid, GDGs All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.