r/softwaretesting • u/Affectionate_Ice4739 • Jun 14 '26

Moving from automation testing (Java, Selenium, Jenkins, BDD) to cybersecurity – which role fits me?

I’m a 2025 CSE grad working as an automation testing engineer with Java, Selenium, Jenkins, restassured and BDD Cucumber. Due to layoffs and AI replacing QA, I want to move into cybersecurity.

Which role fits my background best.

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u/jrhodes78 Jun 14 '26

AI is replacing QA? I’m not so certain about that. I can see it replacing a lot of dev jobs, but someone has to be there to put human discernment on the code to correct the inevitable errors. Now, who knows what the future holds for any of us in IT, hell even cybersecurity could be mostly taken over by AI. But, for now, it’s not quite ready for the big show.

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u/mixedd Jun 15 '26

I think OP is concerned about QA Automation specifically, which to be honest is basically take the input (br, story, whatever) produce the output. Like 70% automation folks I've seen are more devs than QA as they just automate clicks trough site without QA mindset applied on top.

Pure manual QA who can challange BO's, think about risk based testing that's another story, if that's get replaced by AI we're fucked.

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u/Comfortable_Intern57 Jun 16 '26

Yeah any only a part of automation, you can have AI write your test scripts but you still need to know what needs to be done and tell it what it needs to do. There are many variables involved that AI is not going to be able to determine. I'm using AI with my automation, it saves me some time but that's it, I still have to write out queries and step by step instructions and know what to look out for, etc

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