Lead QA Engineer, Automation

Join ABC Fitness and become part of a culture thats as ambitious as it is authentic. Lets transform the future of fitnesstogether! Our Values Best Life We believe great work begins with great people. Thats why our culture is built on respect, trust, and belonging. We create an inclusive environment where every team member can bring their authentic self to workbecause diverse perspectives drive innovation and meaningful impact. Growth Mindset We are doers, thinkers, and dreamers. At ABC Fitness, your growth is our investment. Through continuous learning, mentorship, and professional development opportunities, we empower you to reach new heightspersonally and professionally. One Team From day one, youll be part of a team that collaborates, celebrates, and cares. We move fast, support one another, and have fun along the way. Because when you thrive, we all thrive. REPONSIBILITIES: Be an active participant and lead day-to-day Scrum activities of the team as needed including sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives. Review and evaluate business requirements in the form of user stories; lead work breakdown and estimation of tasks based on requirements; provide alternative solutions and negotiate with Product Management. Own small to mid-sized engineering/QA projects or product areas. Lead technical projects; define and oversee test automation and quality delivery for your squad. Develop high-quality code; contribute to development standards by setting new patterns and best practices. Write architecture and design documentation for test frameworks and quality plans as needed. Review teammates' work to ensure quality and adherence to system architecture and best practices; identify where new designs will require architectural or testability changes. Troubleshoot and reproduce customer-found issues in a timely manner. Support and contribute to build, deployment, and monitoring processes with an emphasis on security, performance, and scalability. Design reusable test components by utilizing standard frameworks; experiment with new technologies that can enhance our QA tech stack. May participate in build vs. buy analysis and complex decision making for test tooling. Conduct regular, self-guided study to stay current on new and existing technologies; watch emerging technologies and practices and evaluate them for suitability at ABC. May supervise the work of QA vendor resources. QUALIFICATIONS: All applicants must be able to work from our Hyderabad office 2-3x a week. Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software QA Engineering, or related field (or equivalent industry experience). 6+ years of software development or SDET experience with a strong automation focus. Strong proficiency in TypeScript for test automation, tooling, and framework development. Strong understanding of unit testing, integration testing, load testing, and related tools. Significant experience in full life cycle system development including design, building, testing, deployment, upgrade, and support. Experience with application lifecycle management tools (e.g., JIRA) and concepts for version control, work item tracking, and continuous integration. Hands-on experience with REST API testing. Strong knowledge of BDD/TDD methodologies. Familiarity with SQL databases and queries for test data validation. Experience with exploratory testing. Experience with CI/CD tools. Experience in applying different techniques, tools and approaches based on context. Experience in testing technically complex systems (microservice-oriented systems, distributed systems with the requirement to be fail-safe). Experience with shift-left testing (early in development) and shift-right testing (in production environments) techniques. Strong problem-solving skills. Critical thinking and attention to details. Excellent communication and influencing skills for collaborating with developers, product managers, and stakeholders. Knowledgeable about performance tuning, scalability, security, reliability, and other non-functional testing concepts. AND ITS GREAT TO HAVE: Experience with agentic-IDE development and testing practices, including AI-assisted test generation, agent-based QA tooling, and intelligent test maintenance. Experience with security testing and performance testing. Prior exposure to fitness/wellness products and multi-tenant SaaS products. WHATS IN IT FOR YOU: Purpose led company with a Values focused culture Best Life, One Team, Growth Mindset Time Off competitive PTO plans with 15 Earned accrued leave, 12 days Sick leave, and 12 days Casual leave per year 11 Holidays plus 4 Days of Disconnect once a quarter, we take a collective breather and enjoy a day off together around the globe. #oneteam Group Mediclaim insurance coverage of INR 500,000 for employee + spouse, 2 kids, and parents or parent-in-laws, and including EAP counseling Life Insurance and Personal Accident Insurance Best Life Perk we are Join ABC