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Morgan Stanley

Mainframe CICS Systems Engineer

Mclean, VA · On-site

$49.50 - $63.75/hr

... testing, application releases, and ongoing monitoring and support for over 3,000 production ... The Mainframe CICS Systems Programmer/Engineer is responsible for all phases of CICS engineering ...

TriTech Enterprise Systems, Inc.

Testers

Lanham, MD · On-site

... Mainframe for multiple IRS applications using Oracle, ETL (Informatica), JBoss, Java, and in ... Demonstrated experience in testing data loading jobs implemented in ETL Informatica/Control-M tool ...

TriTech Enterprise Systems, Inc.

Testers

Lanham, MD · On-site

$50/hr

... Mainframe for multiple IRS applications using Oracle, ETL (Informatica), JBoss, Java, and in ... Demonstrated experience in testing data loading jobs implemented in ETL Informatica/Control -M tool ...

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Testing Specialist with MMIS or Health Benefit Exchange system Exp

Linthicum Heights, MD

Infojini Inc
Recruiting and Staffing Services • 51 - 200 employees
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Key responsibilities

  • Perform user acceptance testing for MMIS or Maryland Health Benefit Exchange system to ensure quality of deliverables.

  • Analyze and troubleshoot technical issues related to testing mainframe applications and support testing activities involving COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, and related technologies.

  • Collaborate with team members and support personnel to execute system testing, data integrity testing, and data transformation testing activities.

Job description

Company Description

Infojini Consulting is a full service IT consulting, services, and staffing firm with offices in Linthicum Heights ,Maryland, Washington, DC and Mumbai, India.

Infojini Consulting is recognized as one of the fastest growing IT services and software development Companies. With a partnership of all major technology vendors, Infojini Consulting has built a strong Government and commercial customer base including fortune 100 companies and most state and federal agencies such as State of North Carolina, State of South Carolina, State of Maryland, State of California, State of Pennsylvania, State of Virginia, State of Washington and many others.

Infojini Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified individuals for employment irrespective of their race, gender, age, color, sexual orientation. We offer an excellent compensation package

Job Description

We are looking for Testing Specialist in Linthicum, MD for 1 - 3 years months contract position. 


Please refer someone else if you are not available at this time or you are not right match for this job opportunity. We have great Referral Bonus up to $2500!!! Please don't miss to refer someone who are looking for projects.


Job Details Mentioned Below:

Title: Testing Specialist with MMIS or Health Benefit Exchange system Exp

Location: Linthicum, MD

Duration: 1 - 3 years contract position



Required Skills:

A minimum of 4 years of experience as a User Acceptance Tester.

Strong analytical and debugging skills.

Strong knowledge of the technical aspects of Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) or Maryland Health Benefit Exchange system.

Detail oriented; especially related to quality of deliverables.

Demonstrated ability to analyze and solve technical issues as they relate to testing mainframe applications.              

Proven experience working effectively with team members and other support personnel.


Desired Skills:

Experience as a mainframe tester on complex and dynamic, multi-agency technology projects within the healthcare industry.

Experience in testing and supporting the MMIS or the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange system.

Experience in COBOL, DB2, CICS and JCL development or testing.

Familiarity with SQL, HTML, CSS and JavaScript

Hands-on experience in backend testing on DBs such as FOCUS, DB2 and Oracle.

Demonstrated strong technical testing skills using SQL to perform complex DB queries

Working knowledge of WebFOCUS, COBOL JCL Procedures and Libraries, CICS, Catalogues, HFS, PDS, OpenVMS, DCL, TSO, ISPF, SDSF, VSAM, Endeavor, Panvalet.

Demonstrated experience with industry standard Quality Assurance best practices for Agile and Iterative SDLCs, testing methodologies, version control systems, implementation, and deployment activities.

Experience in system testing, data warehouse migration testing, data integrity testing and data transformation related testing.


Additional Information

AWESOME THINGS ABOUT THIS POSITION:


As engineer #6, you get to wear many hats. In addition to application development, we could use help with everything ranging from devops to machine-learning to map-making.

As a core member of a tiny company, you get to brainstorm with anyone, including the company founders, every day.

Your features get used by millions of people. The feedback loop is short. You can tell, quantitatively, if your favorite feature is well received.


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About Infojini

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Infojini Consulting is a full service IT consulting, services, and staffing firm with offices in Linthicum Heights ,Maryland, Washington, DC and Mumbai, India. Infojini Consulting is recognized as one of the fastest growing IT services and software development Companies. With a partnership of all major technology vendors, Infojini Consulting has built a strong Government and commercial customer base including fortune 100 companies and most state and federal agencies such as State of North Carolina, State of South Carolina, State of Maryland, State of California, State of Pennsylvania, State of Virginia, State of Washington and many others.

Industry

Recruiting and staffing services

Company size

51 - 200 Employees

Headquarters location

Columbia, MD, US

Year founded

2006

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