Senior Quality Automation Engineer (z/OS, Mainframe)

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 28 April 2026
LOCATION
United Kingdom
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
SALARY
£97,250 / year
CATEGORY
Information Technology
This role is not offered with visa sponsorship, though the employer is a licensed UK sponsor

SKILLS

z/OS products test automation TSO/ISPF SMP/E SDSF JES2/3 SMF JCL

FULL DESCRIPTION

Senior Quality Automation Engineer (z/OS, Mainframe)

Company: [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk]

Location: United Kingdom (Remote)

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £ 58,350 - £ 97,250 yearly

Job Description

[Employer hidden] 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. [Employer hidden] 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 [Employer hidden]’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.

[Employer hidden] is looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer (z/OS) to join our highly successful AMI Security team in the UK (fully remote, exiting work permit for the UK is required - we're unable to offer visa sponsorship).

In this role, you will design, build, and automate quality processes for brand-new security products developed from the ground up! These mission‑critical solutions are used by leading organizations worldwide and demand the highest standards of quality.

You will work within a global team of talented QA Automation Engineers, while also collaborating with development, product management & customer support teams to deliver exceptional product quality end to end.

So, if you’re an experienced QA Automation Engineer with a "Get it Done" and "Do it Right" attitude; If you’re passionate about diligence, thoroughness and teamwork. If you love to deliver high-quality solutions using advanced tools and processes – this is the role for you!

What will your day-to-day look like?

  • Ensure top‑notch product quality through automation and manual testing, starting from the initial development stages
  • Design, develop and execute functional & non-functional test plans
  • Build and maintain automation scripts using automation frameworks for system and regression testing
  • Participate in module design with a focus on high quality, portable, maintainable, and [Employer hidden] standards compliant software
  • Gain a deep understanding of the technology to be tested, including its purpose, features, and real‑world use cases
  • Document test results, report defects, and track them through resolution using Jira
  • Collaborate with developers, QA peers, product managers and customer support to ensure comprehensive test coverage, validate fixes, resolve defects, reproduce complex scenarios, and support customers
  • Be an integral part of an amazing global team, across USA, United Kingdom, India and Israel.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of hands-on experience in QA testing with z/OS products
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in test automation of z/OS products
  • Strong experience with TSO/ISPF, SMP/E, SDSF, JES2/3, SMF, JCL, z/OS Utilities & z/OSMF
  • Working experience with REXX & Python
  • Good RACF knowledge
  • Experience with Front-End Browser based QA
  • Hands-on experience with Jenkins automation tool
  • Experience with QA test automation frameworks such as TPNS, UFT, Selenium, Robot Framework, or similar
  • Excellent communication skills in English
  • A team player & a fast learner, with passion for the QA field

Nice to Have

  • Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field
  • Knowledge of alternate z/OS security systems such as CA’s ACF2 and CA’s Top Secret
  • Experience in Assembler, COBOL, JavaScript, HTML, C/C++, SSH or REST APIs
  • Experience with MS Playwright
  • Experience with z/VM, z/Linux, Windows, Mac/OS, UNIX or Linux admin & security
  • Experience with Agile development methodology, including Jira for defect reporting and sprint tracking

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