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Job Description:

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) 

Broadcom’s Mainframe Software Division delivers mission-critical on-premises and hybrid solutions that power a majority of the world’s enterprise transactions. Our platforms support highly reliable, large-scale systems used by global organizations every day.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated QA / Automation Engineer to join our Workload Automation team, supporting the CA 7 Workload Automation product. 

CA 7 Workload Automation is a highly scalable, fully integrated workload automation solution that allows you to define and execute workloads and manage service-level agreements (SLAs) across the enterprise. Through a single point of control, CA 7 Workload Automation enables you to distribute or centralize job submissions according to business relevance, helping your team efficiently manage the performance and availability of cross-platform and ERP applications.

CA 7 Workload Automation is evolving to support modern mainframe DevOps practices through deeper CI/CD integration, enhanced APIs, and improved developer experience. The product is also investing in intelligent analysis, expanded automation capabilities, and tighter integration with the broader Workload Automation ecosystem to enable more proactive, shift-left validation and faster feedback loops

This role focuses on building and enhancing automation frameworks, ensuring high product quality, and driving continuous improvement in testing practices.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong automation expertise who has experience in mainframe environments or is eager to learn and grow in this space.

What You’ll Do

Quality Assurance & Automation

• Design, develop, and enhance automation frameworks for the CA 7 Workload Automation product

• Build programs, utilities, scripts, and CI/CD pipelines to support:

  • Integration, System, Performance, Security, and Compatibility testing

• Define and implement automated test coverage strategies and metrics

• Maintain and optimize regression test suites for stability and effectiveness

• Analyze test results, reduce false positives, and improve test reliability

• Execute targeted manual and exploratory testing for critical and high-risk areas

• Prepare complex test data and ensure alignment with comprehensive test matrices

• Identify, assess, and mitigate potential security risks within testing processes and tools

How You’ll Work

• Participate actively in Agile and DevOps workflows

• Contribute to test planning, estimation, and risk assessment

• Help define and evolve test frameworks, tools, and best practices

• Support continuous testing and CI/CD pipeline improvements

• Collaborate closely with development, QA, and product teams

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's: 8+ years; Master's: 6+ years; PhD: 3+ years Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

• 5+ years of experience in QA and test automation

• Mainframe (z/OS) experience

• Strong understanding of testing methodologies and best practices

• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, JUnit, TestNG, or PyTest

• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Java, or similar)

• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins)

• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with mainframe technologies (z/OS)

• Programming experience in HLASM, REXX, or Metal C, Ansible

• Familiarity with API testing tools (Postman, REST Assured, SoapUI)

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