Senior QA Automation Engineer – AI-Driven Testing Architect

Bitdefender; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Bitdefender is seeking a seasoned QA Automation Engineer to join its APAC QA team to design and build automated test systems for GravityZone products. You will develop Java-based automation components, collaborate across countries, and contribute to CI/CD pipelines, with emphasis on testability and scalable automation.

The role blends automation with manual testing when needed, and offers exposure to AI-assisted testing and modern tech in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software development, test automation, or quality engineering.
• Strong Java programming and debugging skills with Maven, TestNG, Selenium.
• Ownership of automation framework architecture with reusable libraries.
• Automating web interfaces, REST/JSON-RPC APIs, and backend workflows.
• CI/CD integration, able to troubleshoot flaky tests and improve speed.
• Experience with AI-assisted testing and LLM-based tooling.
• Ability to read code and collaborate with developers; PR workflows.
• TestRail experience; Jira/Confluence documentation and traceability.
• Windows and Linux testing; virtualization knowledge (VMware/Proxmox).
• Communication in English; ability to mentor across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Automation Framework and Tooling Development: design and maintain components.
• Automated Test Development: build coverage for UI, APIs, and backend.
• CI/CD and Test Reliability: integrate suites into Bamboo; reduce flakiness.
• Testability and Mentorship: review automation code and set engineering standards.
• Release Validation: support readiness with manual testing when needed.
• Environment Support: provision test environments and QA virtualization infra.

Skills

Java programming

Test automation

Debugging

Mentor QA engineers

English communication

Tools

Maven

TestNG

Selenium WebDriver

Git

Jira

Confluence

TestRail

Proxmox

VMware

CI/CD Bamboo

Playwright/Cypress

Job description

Bitdefender is seeking a seasoned QA Automation Engineer to join its APAC QA team to design and build automated test systems for GravityZone products. You will develop Java-based automation components, collaborate across countries, and contribute to CI/CD pipelines, with emphasis on testability and scalable automation.

The role blends automation with manual testing when needed, and offers exposure to AI-assisted testing and modern tech in a fast-paced environment.