Mainframe Quality Engineer

Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2026 at 4:00 AM

Software AG helps companies to manage and optimize their operations, infrastructure and technologywith products that simplify complexity, increase transparency and prepare organizations for change.

Trusted by the world’s best brands for more than 50 years, Software AG’s AI-enabled process intelligence, application development, high-performance database, and strategic portfolio management solutions are used by banks, retailers, manufacturers, governments and more.

Software AG’s Adabas database & Natural development platform are used by the world’s leading organizations to build and deploy high-performance, mission-critical applications for IBM Z®, Linux® and cloud. Governments and businesses (in finance, manufacturing, retail and more) tailor these applications to give their organization a distinct competitive advantage and optimize them to meet the most demanding operational service level agreements. With a pledge to innovate Adabas & Natural to 2050 and beyond, we ensure our customer’s mission-critical Adabas & Natural applications are Future ready. Now.

For our location in Darmstadt, Germany, we are looking for a Mainframe Quality Engineer/Specialist* for Natural & Adabas for z/OS.

If you are passionate about quality assurance, are familiar with the IBM Z system and have several years of experience with IBM Z, this role would be the opportunity for you.

Responsibilities

• Cross-product quality assurance in the IBM Z area for our Adabas & Natural products, with the focus on installation and acceptance tests
• Be responsible for release and delivery of these products
• Develop and automate test cases
• Monitor and maintain our test environment
• Track and analyze errors in coordination with the development departments
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
• Proven experience as Quality Engineer/Specialist with expertise in the IBM Z system
• Programming experience to maintain and continue developing our testing tools
• Good knowledge of JCL
• Knowledge of additional IBM Z products, e.g. CICS, Db2 or VSAM, is helpful
• Adabas/Natural experience would complete your profile
• Openness to new technologies and methods
• Self-motivated, self-developing and learning mindset
• Very good written and spoken German and English skills
• Ability to work in a diverse and geographically distributed team

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
• Proven experience as Quality Engineer/Specialist with expertise in the IBM Z system
• Programming experience to maintain and continue developing our testing tools
• Good knowledge of JCL
• Knowledge of additional IBM Z products, e.g. CICS, Db2 or VSAM, is helpful
• Adabas/Natural experience would complete your profile
• Openness to new technologies and methods
• Self-motivated, self-developing and learning mindset
• Very good written and spoken German and English skills
• Ability to work in a diverse and geographically distributed team

What’s in it for you?

• Earn competitive total compensation and receive comprehensive country-specific medical and other benefits.
• Enjoy time and location flexibility with our Hybrid Working Model, which allows a remote workshare of up to 60%. Work anywhere in your country or abroad for up to 10 days per year.
• Set yourself up for success in your new role by upgrading your home office space using your one-time hybrid work payment.
• Lean on the Employee Assistance Program for support during some of life’s most common but difficult challenges.

At Software AG we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect and fairness whereequal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees without regard to race,colour, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status,sexual orientation, gender identity, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion is critical to our success as a global company, and we seekto recruit, compensate, develop, promote, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.