Quality Engineering Specialist – Mainframe

This role is hybrid and requires you to be at our Client office at a minimum 4 days per week - subject to change at any time. 
As a Quality Engineering Specialist, you will work in a testing and quality assurance capacity on our core mainframe cards and transactions system, ensuring stability, reliability, and quality across critical banking services.
The core application is a large, sophisticated mainframe-based system that connects clients to their banking products and services. This 24/7 application supports critical delivery channels such as Online Banking, POS, ATM, and other high-volume transaction platforms.

.    Design, develop, execute, and maintain test strategies, test plans, and test cases for mainframe applications
Perform functional, integration, regression, and system testing across online and batch environments
Validate end-to-end transaction flows, including physical ATM interactions and customer-facing scenarios
Execute testing at physical ATM locations, as required, to validate real-world behavior and fixes
Validate data integrity and transaction processing across IMS, DB2, and MQ interfaces
Support conversion, attestation, audit, and regulatory initiatives from a quality perspective
Analyze business and technical requirements to ensure complete test coverage
Identify, track, and clearly communicate defects, risks, and quality gaps
Collaborate closely with developers, BSAs, and IT partners to ensure timely delivery
Create and maintain test documentation and execution evidence
Support production validation and after-hours support when required (rare)

Must-have
Completion of a post-secondary education
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Solid experience in mainframe testing / quality engineering
Hands-on knowledge of COBOL, JCL, IMS (DB/Online/Batch), DB2, MQSeries
Experience validating batch jobs, online transactions, and data flows
Willingness and ability to perform hands-on testing at physical ATM machines
Familiarity with Git / Endevor environments
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Nice-to-have
Experience with test automation (zUnit or similar tools)
Understanding or hands-on usage of IDz, z/OS Connect
Exposure to CI/CD pipelines in a mainframe environment
Knowledge of Java or cloud-based integrations
Experience in banking, payments, cards, or ATM systems
**CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $65,000–$115,000. This role is an existing vacancy.**
Disclaimer : Use of the term 'engineering' in this job posting refers to the technical sense related to Information Technology (IT) and does not imply that the individual practices engineering or possesses the requisite license as prescribed by the applicable provincial or territorial engineering regulator. We are seeking individuals with expertise in IT engineering-related functions, but licensure from an engineering regulator is not a prerequisite for this position. Engineering is a regulated profession in Canada which is restricted in terms of use of titles and designation.
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Use of the term 'engineering' in this job posting refers to the technical sense related to Information Technology (IT) and does not imply that the individual practices engineering or possesses the requisite license as prescribed by the applicable provincial or territorial engineering regulator. We are seeking individuals with expertise in IT engineering-related functions, but licensure from an engineering regulator is not a prerequisite for this position. Engineering is a regulated profession in Canada which is restricted in terms of use of titles and designation.

• Delivery Management
• Detail-oriented
• Test Case / Script Development
• Test Design
• Waterfall Model
• Financial Services
• Java

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