Arif Thanedar Mohammed

About Arif Thanedar Mohammed

Arif\'s 14 yrs of professional experience makes him, an Automation tester (Selenium+node js+ mocha) & a Certified Scrum Master, currently designated as Z/OS DevOps system automation tester at IBM ISL. He\'s currently working and leading the automation of Test accelerator for z/os which is a VSCode extension from IBM for unit and early integration testing for the cobol programs. Previously he has also worked on testing IBM\'s Debugger and Zopen debug products using tools like RCPTT. Also worked on the modernisation frame work (WatsonX Code Assistant for z/OS) to modernise COBOL monolith applications into Java. His daily activities include participating in the development and testing of IBM extensions (TAZ vscode, Z open editor, Zowe explorer, Z Open Debug )for the IDE VScode & IBM Products like IBM Developer for z/OS, IBM Debugger, IBM Test Accelerator z/OS etcHe is experienced in the quality assurance of Healthcare, Pharmacy Benefit Management(PBM) & Business process management (BPM) products of USA. He\'s ISTQB certified and well versed with SDLC & STLC of application both theoretically and practically. He\'s an expert, predominantly in Business analysis and Mainframe Testing, involving right from the stage of requirements discussion until user acceptance. Leads the QA team and represents it in all the business discussions, sprint refinements and stand-up meetings. He effectively handles Sprint and Kanban projects of agile methodologies with JIRA as test management tool. Also worked on other test management tools like HP QC, ALM. Tools & Technologies :Pega, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, SQL, Java, Selenium Web driver, Unified functional testing (UFT), frameworks - Test NG & BDD - Cucumber, JIRA-Zephyr, Jenkins, GitHub, Eclipse, Postman, new relic, Kafka Topic & Redhat Openshift

Experience

1. Z Devops System Automation Test Lead

   IBM

   Jul 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Currently Working on automation testing of VSCode extensions (TAZ VSCode) using Mocha JS testing framework with Selenium webdriver. The tools & technologies used areVisual Studio Code, JavaScript, Selenium webdriver, Redhat Openshift dev spaces, Eclipse, GitHub, React JS & Typescript, RCPTT & eclipse sdk tool.AUTs:IBM Test Accelerator for z/OS (TAZ), IBM Developer for Z(IDz), IBM Debugger, Zowe explorer, Z Open debug profile, IBM Z Open editor etc.

Education

• Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering