Lead Quality Automation Engineer - Mainframe

BMC Software, Inc.; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,889,000 - 3,910,000; Full time

Job summary

BMC Software, Inc. in Pune, India, seeks a Lead Quality Automation Engineer to join the IZOT product line. You will develop automated tests for complex distributed software, validate functionality with developers, and help improve QA practices.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years in z/OS QA, hands-on automation experience, and strong communication skills to collaborate with global teams. This role emphasizes flagship mainframe modernization efforts and customer-focused testing.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in z/OS system QA role or Tech Services (Storage Admin or implementing products)
• Experience in z/OS: JCL, SMP/E, REXX, VSAM, VSAM/RLS
• Knowledge of JES2 and batch processing
• Experience with QA methodologies: functional, negative, stress tests
• Experience writing clear test plans and cases
• Hands-on with automated testing tools
• Experience in Agile development
• Excellent communication skills
• Self-motivated and independent

Responsibilities

• Validate product functionality via manual or automated test cases
• Identify end user scenarios and document defects; verify fixes
• Contribute to QA practices and align with customer perspectives
• Showcase/demo product to customers or stakeholders if required
• Write test automation scripts using automation framework for regression testing
• Automate manual assignments using Robot/SuperTest; troubleshoot issues
• Learn and contribute to global projects and innovate in problem solving

Skills

z/OS QA

Automation testing

Agile methodologies

Test planning

Communication skills

Independence

Tools

JCL

SMP/E

REXX

VSAM

JES2

Robot/SuperTest

Job description

Lead Quality Automation Engineer - India

Country

India

State

IN_Maharashtra

City

Pune

Date Published

09-Apr-2026

Job ID

46575

Travel

You may occasionally be required to travel for business

Secondary locations

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

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 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. Here is how, through this exciting role, YOU will contribute to BMC's and your own success:

• 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.

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

• 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.

Whilst these are nice to have, our team can help you develop in the following 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.

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!

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.

At BMC we believe in pay transparency and have set the midpoint of the salary band for this role at 3,398,800 INR. 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 salary listed is just one component of BMC's employee compensation package. Other rewards may include a variable plan and country specific benefits.

We are committed to ensuring that our employees are paid fairly and equitably, and that we are transparent about our compensation practices.

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