Job Description

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 hiring Principal SQA Engineers who have “Get it done” and "Do it Right" attitude and should be thriving for the quality, diligence, and thoroughness. The role requires experience of product development life cycle with high quality using various tools and processes. Understanding requirements of complex use cases of Cloud solutions, manage upgrades, automation, Dev-Ops and Site reliability engineering is a must have.

BMC is looking for a QA Tech Lead to join BMC AMI Cloud team working on complex and distributed software, developing test plans, executing tests, developing automation & assuring product quality.

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

• Take overall responsibility of the product quality, put checks, control, and propose and implement processes to prevent regression, defect leaks to customers.

• Collaborate with R&D team, Product Managers, and other QA members to come up with solid test strategy and test cases to cover end to end use cases for any features or enhancements.

• Automate new test cases and maintain existing ones with high quality and ensuring all automated cases are part of continuous regression and runs on nightly builds with no/minimal maintenance.

• Should be able to identify room for improvements for making automation more efficient and stable.

• Review design, technical documents, test features, architecture document and test upgrade scenarios, identification of breaking changes.

• Work with other product solution teams to ensure integration, upgrades and dependencies for every release and patches are well understood and planned.

• Mentor other quality and automation engineers to review the automation, test cases and contribute to overall product quality.

• Participate in agile development processes and events like release planning and iteration planning, scrum meetings, retrospectives meetings.

• Assumes overall responsibility for projects in designated areas in terms of functionality, quality, efficiency, and timeliness.

• Have an attitude of ownership, and exhibit leadership and be able to drive things to GET IT DONE.

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

• 12+ Years of hands-on Software Quality Assurance experience in software product development

• 5+ Years of hands-on test cases automation development experience in developing and implementing automated testing platforms using Mainframe & Java from scratch.

• Managing automation frameworks and run regression suites.

• Hands on experience with tools, programming languages like Selenium, Java, Grails, Groovy, z/OS JCL and Postgres DB.

• Good understanding on code coverage tools.

• Experienced in testing customer bugs / issues/ Evals in the lab and suggest solutions to customer and support team.

• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application and suggest testing approach.

• Experienced in working with Agile development methodology and working with virtual team.

• Strong experience in version control system ‘Git’.

• Experience with CI/CD using Jenkins and related scripting to implement continuous testing.

• Strong knowledge and hands on experience with container-based apps on Kubernetes and Docker, and OpenShift. Experience of creating and maintain helm charts for deployments is a must.

• Experience with at least one cloud platform like AWS, Azure, OCI or GCI.

• Strong documentation, communication and presentation skills.

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

• Test Automation experience, Scripting skills (preferably Robot Framework, Rexx, Python etc.)

• Performance testing (Scalability, benchmarking, Load) frameworks, such as JMeter, etc.