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 Control-M product line is BMC’s orchestration and automation platform. It helps the world's largest companies to automate time-sensitive, business-critical workflows. We orchestrate data and machine learning pipelines, supply chains, production lines, financial transactions, and other processes in complex IT environments worldwide. We continuously grow by adding and implementing the most cutting-edge technologies, conducting innovative Just Do It marathons, thinking about new features to add and investing in our employee training programs!

We are looking for a Lead Automation Engineer to join our growing team and take a pivotal role in shaping the future of our automation strategy. You’ll be working on complex, distributed software systems, leading automated performance activities and assuring product quality.

If you are a seasoned Automation Engineer with deep expertise in system testing, including benchmark, load, stress, endurance, and other non-functional testing, and have a passion for driving innovation and excellence, this is your opportunity to make a significant impact. We’re looking for someone who is curious, self-driven, and thrives in collaborative environments, with strong interpersonal and leadership skills.

In this role, you will face professional challenges and opportunities alongside a rewarding work environment and play an important role in taking innovative actions alongside the other development teams.

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

• Design and automation of integration, API, and system-level testing to ensure product stability, performance, and reliability across distributed environments.
• Shape the quality narrative by providing a holistic system-level perspective, collaborating closely with developers and product managers to proactively identify, validate, and drive improvements in application performance and operational behavior.
• Champion continuous improvement by contributing to product and process enhancements, leveraging customer-centric insights and data-driven feedback.
• Mentor and guide team members, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and technical excellence in automation practices.

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

• 4+ years of experience in QA/Test Engineering team lead, with a strong background in functional, regression, integration, and API testing in distributed systems.
• Ability to define, drive activities and align quality goals with business objectives.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams.
• Deep understanding of SaaS architectures and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Rancher, OpenShift).
• Expertise in end-to-end automation while ensuring comprehensive coverage from both technical and user experience perspectives, including framework design, maintenance, and execution of complex test scenarios.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, Git, and automated deployment strategies.
• Proficiency in Python, with hands-on experience testing Client-Server applications and building scalable automation frameworks.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills, with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset focused on root cause analysis and long-term fixes.
• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer science, programming, or equivalent practical experience

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.