QA Automation Engineer

Description and Requirements
"At BMC trust is not just a word - it's a way of life"
Description And Requirements
CareerArc Code

CA-MH

Hybrid
"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 DSOM product line includes BMC's industry-leading Digital Services and Operation Management products. We have many interesting SaaS products, in the fields of: Predictive IT service management, Automatic discovery of inventories, intelligent operations management, and more We continuously grow by adding and implementing the most cutting-edge technologies and investing in Innovation Our team is a global and versatile group of professionals, and we LOVE to hear our employees' innovative ideas. So, if Innovation is close to your heart – this is the place for you

BMC Helix is looking for an experienced Automation Engineer to join the team responsible for BMC's Helix Continuous Optimization product.

Our product is a SaaS solution built on a microservices-based architecture. It helps companies optimize their current IT resources, predict upcoming resource shortages, and model future resource needs using advanced forecasting capabilities.

The product is part of the BMC Helix IT Operations Management (ITOM) solution and integrates with other offerings such as AIOps, Monitoring, and Discovery. As such, you will collaborate with teams across the globe, implement SRE methodologies, and work with leading companies and vendors to support large-scale IT environments and cutting-edge technologies.

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

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites using Python and Robot Framework.
• Execute manual testing for new and complex features when automation is not practical or available.
• Analyze requirements and collaborate with product owners and developers to create effective test plans.
• Ensure high test coverage and early defect detection across API, UI, and system levels.
• Maintain and refactor existing automated test scripts to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Investigate and troubleshoot test failures, identify root causes, and assist with resolution.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of QA processes, tools, and infrastructure.

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

• 2+ years of experience as a QA Automation Engineer (manual + automation) with Python
• Solid understanding of software testing principles, including functional, regression, integration, and performance testing.
• Experience in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, or GitLab, including planning and creating pipelines & writing Jenkins jobs (both sequential and parallel)
• Ability to estimate tasks for yourself and others.
• Ability to articulate the quality-related phases of a product or service release process.

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

• Experience developing CI/CD pipelines for services using Kafka, Elastic, Kubernetes, Redis, and VictoriaMetrics.
• Experience working with AWS managed services such as EKS, EC2, S3, ELK, RDS, and Aurora.
• Experience with the Robot Framework.
• Experience working in an enterprise company

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.