Lead Quality Automation Engineer - Mainframe

Job Summary

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. BMC does this in a simple and optimized way by connecting people, systems, and data that power the worlds largest organizations so they can seize a competitive advantage.

The IZOT product line includes BMC's Intelligent Z Optimization Transformation products, which help the worlds 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 applicationssecurity, 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 SQA Engineer to join our family working on complex and distributed software, developing automated tests, executing test plans, and assisting the firm in assuring product quality.

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 in Robot/SuperTest
• 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.

Requirements

• 8+ years working in z/OS system QA role or Tech Services (Storage Admin or Installing and implementing products).
• Good experience in z/OS: JCL, SMP/E, REXX, VSAM, VSAM/RLS
• Working knowledge of JES2, batch job processing.
• Experience in QA methodology i.e., functionality tests, negative tests, stress tests, etc.
• Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools
• Experience working in an Agile development process
• Ability to document and troubleshoot issues and bugs
• Excellent communication skills
• Self-motivated and independent.

Nice-to-have Skills

• Knowledge of industry-standard job scheduling/workload automation products (Control-M, IWS, CA7)
• SMF/RMF record types of knowledge /SMF file handling
• ISPW/TOPAZ knowledge
• Basic knowledge of DB2/IMS/CICS
• Good to have COBOL Programming Knowledge.