QA Chapter Lead
Impact.com18 hours ago
Base Salary
$130k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain QA standards, methodologies, best practices, and quality strategies.
- Establish functional, regression, integration, performance, and security test strategies.
- Lead, mentor, support, and develop QA engineers across manual and automation testing.
- Plan QA resources and testing schedules, conduct reviews, and promote quality ownership.
- Own test plans, test cases, test data strategy, test execution oversight, defect management, coverage, and risk-based testing.
- Validate acceptance criteria, release readiness, and post-release smoke-test coverage.
- Drive test automation strategy, framework selection, tooling, test management, metrics, and reporting.
- Collaborate with DevOps on CI/CD integration and partner with QA platform and enablement teams on new tools and technologies.
- Work with Product Managers and Engineering Leads to clarify requirements, resolve quality risks, and support release go/no-go decisions.
- Communicate quality status, risks, and metrics to stakeholders.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance and/or Software Development Engineering in Test roles, with strong test automation and platform-development experience.
- More than one year of experience leading, mentoring, and growing QA teams is preferred.
- Deep expertise in testing methodologies, tools, frameworks, Selenium, Playwright, TestRail, CI/CD integration, and API testing.
- Hands-on agentic AI experience using MCPs, agents, agent skills, and AI-driven testing harnesses.
- Hands-on data-quality experience testing or monitoring data pipelines, ETL, warehouse or reporting platforms, replicated data, schemas, contracts, and real data stores such as BigTable, MySQL, SingleStore, and Kafka.
- Experience testing SQL-centric products or query layers, including SQL parsing, parameter binding, injection safety, explain-plan and performance behavior, persistence round-trips, and source-level data correctness.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, collaboration, stakeholder-influence, and problem-solving abilities.
- Experience leading test framework migrations is preferred.
- Familiarity with OWASP guidelines and security testing tools is preferred.
- Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Office-only catered lunch on Thursdays, snacks, and coffee.
- Flexible spending accounts and 401(k).
- Flexible PTO and a hybrid work arrangement.
- Mental health and wellness coverage including up to 12 fully covered therapy or coaching sessions annually, dependent coverage, and monthly gym reimbursement.
- Restricted Stock Units with a three-year vesting schedule, subject to Board approval.
- Free Coursera subscription and PXA courses.
- Paid parental leave of 26 weeks for primary caregivers and 13 weeks for secondary caregivers.
- Technology stipend for home-office setup and a monthly internet allowance.
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About Impact.com
Impact.com builds a SaaS platform for partnership and affiliate marketing, used by brands to manage affiliates, influencers, content publishers, and referrals, with tools for tracking, attribution, commissioning, and fraud detection. Its revenue comes from software subscriptions and related services. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, it is privately held and counts customers such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics.