QA 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

Job Description
We are looking for an experienced QA professional to take a senior role within our Software Quality Assurance teams. At Bitdefender, QA teams play a critical role throughout the software development lifecycle, and we highly value their contribution to the quality and success of our products. As a Senior QA Engineer, you will act as a technical reference point for the team, drive automation and quality standards, and mentor colleagues while owning the testing of critical product areas.

Responsibilities
As a Senior QA Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Developing, maintaining, documenting, and executing comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test suites for the Bitdefender macOS product suite;
• Analyzing design and project specifications early to prevent defects, identify gaps in documentation, and design broad test scenarios before implementation begins;
• Performing both manual and automated testing activities — functional, regression, integration, system, load, stress, security, and performance;
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining complex automated test scripts and contributing to the development and upkeep of the team's automation platforms, with a strong focus on expanding coverage and improving efficiency;
• Reporting issues through the bug tracking system, conducting root cause analysis, and following defects through to resolution, including validating fixes and assessing the impact of code changes;
• Producing manual and automated test run reports and communicating results, status, and quality metrics to the release owner to support go/no-go decisions;
• Owning and monitoring quality metrics and indicators within your area of responsibility, and participating in risk analysis for product and module functionalities;
• Researching, recommending, and implementing tools and approaches that improve the testing process, product quality, and overall automation level;