Description and Requirements
BMC empowers nearly 80% of the Forbes Global 100 to accelerate business value, faster than humanly possible. Our industry-leading portfolio unlocks human and machine potential to drive business growth, innovation, and sustainable success by connecting people, systems, and data that power the world’s largest organizations.
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. Modernizing mainframe is the core of this product line; we produce solutions that improve developer experience, integration, development speed, code quality, security, and reduce operational costs.
BMC is looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer (z/OS) to join our AMI Security team in the UK. The role is fully remote and requires an existing UK work permit; visa sponsorship is not available.
What will your day‑to‑day look like?
- Ensure top‑notch product quality through automation and manual testing from the initial development stages.
- Design, develop and execute functional & non‑functional test plans.
- Build and maintain automation scripts using frameworks for system and regression testing.
- Participate in module design with a focus on high quality, portability, maintainability, and BMC standards compliance.
- Gain a deep understanding of the technology to be tested, including its purpose, features, and real‑world use cases.
- Document test results, report defects and track them through resolution using Jira.
- Collaborate with developers, QA peers, product managers, and customer support to ensure comprehensive test coverage, validate fixes, resolve defects, reproduce complex scenarios, and support customers.
- Be part of a global team across the USA, United Kingdom, India and Israel.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands‑on experience in QA testing with z/OS products.
- 5+ years of experience in test automation of z/OS products.
- Strong experience with TSO/ISPF, SMP/E, SDSF, JES2/3, SMF, JCL, z/OS Utilities & z/OSMF.
- Working experience with REXX & Python.
- Good RACF knowledge.
- Experience with front‑end browser‑based QA.
- Hands‑on experience with Jenkins automation tool.
- Experience with QA test automation frameworks such as TPNS, UFT, Selenium, Robot Framework, or similar.
- Excellent communication skills in English.
- A team player & fast learner, with a passion for the QA field.
Nice to Have
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field.
- Knowledge of alternate z/OS security systems such as CA’s ACF2 and CA’s Top Secret.
- Experience in Assembler, COBOL, JavaScript, HTML, C/C++, SSH or REST APIs.
- Experience with MS Playwright.
- Experience with z/VM, z/Linux, Windows, Mac/OS, UNIX or Linux admin & security.
- Experience with Agile development methodology, including Jira for defect reporting and sprint tracking.
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.
The annual base salary range for this position is £58,350 – £97,250, depending on experience and other factors. This range is one component of BMC’s employee compensation package, which may include a variable plan and country‑specific benefits.
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