Quality Automation Engineer III

Country

United States

State

NA

Date Published

27-Oct-2025

Job ID

45944

Travel

You may occasionally be required to travel for business

Additional Locations

Detroit - Michigan, Houston - Texas, San Francisco - California, New York - New York, Washington - DC

This role can be based remotely in United States

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Description and Requirements

"At BMC trust is not just a word - it's a way of life"

We are an award-winning, equal opportunity, culturally diverse, fun place to be. Giving back to the community drives us to be better every single day. Our work environment allows you to balance your priorities, because we know you will bring your best every day. We will champion your wins and shout them from the rooftops. Your peers will inspire, drive, support you, and make you laugh out loud

We help our customers free up time and space to become an Autonomous Digital Enterprise that conquers the opportunities ahead - and are relentless in the pursuit of innovation

The IZOT product line includes BMC's Intelligent Z Optimization & Transformation products, which help the world's largest companies to monitor and manage their mainframe systems. The modernization of mainframe is the beating heart of our product line, and we achieve this goal by developing products that improve the developer experience, the mainframe integration, the speed of application development, the quality of the code and the applications' security, while reducing operational costs and risks. We acquired several companies along the way, and we continue to grow, innovate, and perfect our solutions on an ongoing basis.

BMC is looking for a talented Quality Automation Engineer to join our family working on complex DB2 mainframe software, developing automated tests, executing test plans, and assisting the firm in assuring product quality.

The Quality Automation Engineer is a contributing member of the Quality Assurance team responsible for testing and quality assurance of software products under the guidance of senior leaders. The role requires some knowledge of product domain, the software development life cycle and the processes involved in product Quality Assurance and system maintenance. Uses professional concepts in accordance with company objectives to assist in solving problems.

As an automation engineer you will be designing and executing test cases for product maintenance, newly built Product features, Enhancements and automate tests using hybrid automation framework with our SQL Performance for Db2 suite of products, focusing on the Apptune for Db2 product. You'll play a critical role in ensuring our products meet the highest standards of quality and performance.

Guidelines/Duties:

• Assists with training of earlier career staff.
• Works under guidance of senior staff members.
• Accurately estimates the size and scope of the Quality Assurance projects.
• Tests product code according to BMC quality standards.
• Maintains knowledge of product environments and applicable software technologies.
• Provides complete documentation in the form of test plans, automation, regression, problem status information with guidance from senior staff.
• Completes deliverables on schedule.
• Supports systems and integration testing as required to provide a quality product.
• Clear understanding of systems required for testing and product installation.
• Provides input to the Technical Writers for relevant product documentation.
• Works with other teams in Quality Assurance as well as other areas such as Development, IDD and Support to deliver quality products and customer satisfaction.
• Participates in customer interactions when required.
• Support cross-functional teams in customer specific escalations.
• Manage expectations through clear issue management.
• Conducts and participates in team test plan (and other artifact) reviews.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Work with developers, architects, and other Quality Assurance team members to validate product functionality, via manual or automated execution of test cases
• Identify end user scenarios and pertinent test cases and document and track all discovered issues and defects, and validate fixes provided by developers
• Contribute to product and process improvements and refinement of QA practices and understand product capabilities from perspective of customers
• Will be involved in showcase/demo product to customers and any other stakeholders, if required
• Write test automation scripts using automation framework for regression testing
• Will be involved in problem solving, debugging the issues and automate the manual assignments
• As every BMC employee, you will be given the opportunity to learn, be included in global projects, challenge yourself and be the innovator when it comes to solving everyday problems.

To ensure you're set up for success, you will bring the following skillset & experience:

• Able to manage a mixed workload of multiple ongoing tasks in all areas of Quality Assurance including new product, regression, integration, PTF testing, etc.
• May determine methods and procedures on new assignments.
• Experience with QA test automation scripting language
• Experience with QA test automation scripting framework is mandatory.
• Works under guidance of senior staff members.
• Self-starter able to work independently to provide quality solutions with little oversight.
• Experience with Agile development methodology
• Good experience with TSO/ISPF, SDSF, JCL, z/OS Utilities, JES2
• Knowledge/experience of RACF and REXX recommended.
• 5+ years of experience with QA test automation of z/OS products
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science
• A good knowledge of product domain, the software development life cycle and the processes involved in product Quality Assurance and system maintenance is required.
• Position requires the candidate to be a fast learner, good team player with excellent communication skills.
• Good proficiency in English language is required.

Our commitment to you

BMC's culture is built around its people. We have 6000+ brilliant minds working together across the globe. You won't be known just by your employee number, but for your true authentic self. BMC lets you be YOU

If after reading the above, You're unsure if you meet the qualifications of this role but are deeply excited about BMC and this team, we still encourage you to apply We want to attract talents from diverse backgrounds and experience to ensure we face the world together with the best ideas

BMC is committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, age, sex, creed, color, religion, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, national origin, disability, marital status, pregnancy, disabled veteran or status as a protected veteran. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, visit the accommodation request page.

BMC Software maintains a strict policy of not requesting any form of payment in exchange for employment opportunities, upholding a fair and ethical hiring process.

The annual base salary range represents the low and high end of the BMC salary range for this position. Actual salaries depend on a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training, licensure, and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

The range listed is just one component of BMC's employee compensation package. Other rewards may include a variable plan and country specific benefits.

At BMC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at /near the top of the range. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $86,850 - $144,750