QA Automation Engineer

Bitdefender is a cybersecurity leader delivering best-in-class threat prevention, detection, and response solutions worldwide. Guardian over millions of consumer, enterprise, and government environments, Bitdefender is one of the industry’s most trusted experts for eliminating threats, protecting privacy, digital identity and data, and enabling cyber resilience. With deep investments in research and development, Bitdefender Labs discovers hundreds of new threats each minute and validates billions of threat queries daily. The company has pioneered breakthrough innovations in antimalware, IoT security, behavioral analytics, and artificial intelligence and its technology is licensed by more than 180 of the world’s most recognized technology brands. Founded in 2001, Bitdefender has customers in 170+ countries with offices around the world. For more information, visit https://www.bitdefender.com

We are looking for a motivated QA Automation Engineer to join our growing QA team in APAC region and build the software, frameworks, and engineering practices that improve the quality, reliability, and scalability of GravityZone products.

Reporting to the QA Lead, you will design and develop automated test systems for web, API, micro-services, and backend processing workflows. You will work closely with software engineers, product managers, tech leads, and QA engineers across different countries, cultures, and time zones to improve testability and deliver high-quality software in an Agile environment.

This position is ideal for Software Engineer in Test with strong software engineering skills and quality-engineering judgment who can work independently, solve complex technical problems, and build maintainable automation at scale. Manual and exploratory testing may be performed when needed, but the primary focus is software development for testing, automation architecture, and continuous quality feedback.

You will have the opportunity to gain insight into how Bitdefender protects millions of users worldwide, from small businesses to large enterprises and law enforcement organizations, against constantly evolving cyber threats.

About the Role

• Automation Framework and Tooling Development: Design, develop, and maintain reusable Java-based automation components, API clients, Page Object Models, test-data utilities, and diagnostic tools using Maven, TestNG, and Selenium.
• Automated Test Development and Coverage: Build reliable automated coverage for GravityZone UI, REST/JSON-RPC APIs, backend processing, and system integrations, prioritizing critical workflows and regression risks.
• CI/CD and Test Reliability: Integrate automated suites into Bamboo, investigate failures, reduce flaky tests, and improve execution speed and reporting. Connect automated results to TestRail for coverage and execution tracking.
• Testability and Technical Mentorship: Collaborate with developers on testable designs, review automation code, define engineering standards, and mentor QA engineers in coding and automation practices.
• Release Validation and Targeted Manual Testing:  Support release readiness through acceptance, smoke, and exploratory testing where automation is unavailable or unsuitable. Investigate defects and contribute to release-owner activities.
• Environment and Infrastructure Support: Provision and troubleshoot cloud and on-premise test environments and contribute to the maintenance of QA virtualization infrastructure, including Proxmox.

About You

• 8+ years in software development, test automation, or quality engineering, with substantial hands-on experience building automated test systems.
• Strong Java programming, object-oriented design, and debugging skills, with hands-on experience using Maven, TestNG, and Selenium WebDriver.
• Proven ownership of automation framework architecture, including reusable libraries and Page Object Models, with maintainable test code supported by code reviews and engineering standards.
• Experience automating web interfaces, including Web Components and Shadow DOM, alongside REST/JSON-RPC APIs, asynchronous backend workflows, and integrations; able to validate data using SQL or NoSQL queries.
• Experience reducing flaky tests, improving execution speed, and building reliable test-data setup and cleanup. Able to integrate and troubleshoot automated suites in CI/CD pipelines, preferably Bamboo.
• Experience with AI-assisted software development and testing, including LLM-based tools, AI-generated test cases, automation code generation, test analysis, and debugging.
• Ability to read application code, improve testability with developers, and distinguish product defects from automation or environment failures; comfortable with Git and pull-request workflows.
• Hands-on TestRail experience managing test cases, runs, results, and Jira traceability. Experience integrating automated results through the TestRail is highly desirable.
• Experience testing on Windows and Linux, with practical networking knowledge and familiarity with virtualized environments such as VMware or Proxmox.
• Strong testing fundamentals and risk-based judgment, with an automation-first approach and manual or exploratory testing when needed for release validation.
• Ability to lead technical improvements, mentor QA engineers, and collaborate across time zones, with clear written and spoken English and effective documentation in Jira and Confluence.

Bonus Points if You Have

• ISTQB or other software testing certifications
• Hands-on experience testing and validating applications deployed in cloud-based environments, including AWS and GCP.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright, Cypress, or similar automation tools
• Demonstrated maturity in adopting and applying AI technologies to improve software quality, test automation, debugging, and engineering productivity.