QA Engineer
Impact.com2 months ago
Cape Town, South AfricaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, configure, and scale Playwright regression automation for billing journeys, invoices, payment routing, and system interfaces.
- Run and debug scheduled test suites using traces, video recordings, and artifacts to isolate backend root causes.
- Review QA repository pull requests and maintain documentation and continuity of the automated test framework.
- Perform targeted manual and visual mobile web audits across physical and virtual device profiles using cloud testing platforms.
- Use AI-assisted tooling to author tests, generate synthetic edge-case data, and triage logs while applying deterministic verification to financial calculations.
- Review designs and technical requirements, identify ambiguities, recommend architectural corrections, and create functional, integration, regression, smoke, and sanity test plans.
- Use advanced SQL to analyze application and batch logs, validate schemas, and check database and ledger integrity.
- Test tax documentation pipelines, transaction totals, rounding logic, VAT requirements, and changing tax jurisdictions.
- Validate REST APIs, backend endpoints, payload contracts, JSON/XML responses, authorization protocols, webhooks, web services, and retry mechanisms.
- Evaluate compatibility with vendor programs and third-party financial systems.
- Monitor application health, APM dashboards, transaction metrics, and invoicing or balance-import batch jobs.
- Document defects with reproducible steps, SQL scripts, API payloads and responses, network data, and session recordings.
Requirements
- Hands-on professional experience creating, configuring, running, and scaling Playwright web automation scripts.
- Strong relational database profiling skills with the ability to write complex SQL queries, joins, and aggregates for transactional and ledger validation.
- Experience testing or verifying RESTful APIs, HTTP response codes, and validation payloads.
- Proficiency in manual testing, requirements analysis, exploratory testing, web inspection, and analytical and numerical evaluation.
- Ability to work autonomously, process feedback quickly, adapt to changing product needs, and balance speed with quality.
- Experience integrating AI tools such as Cursor or Copilot into QA workflows while iterating and validating generated outputs.
- Tertiary qualification or equivalent practical hands-on experience in software quality assurance, computer programming, or systems engineering.
- Preferred ISTQB/ISEB QA, Partner PXA, Java, Spring, or cloud infrastructure certifications.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or cloud-based device testing suites such as Sauce Labs.
- Familiarity with transactional pipelines, POS systems, ledger logic, database tracking, financial data consistency, VAT, and regional tax rules.
- Familiarity with Selenium, Jasmine, or Cucumber and the ability to adopt Playwright quickly.
- Experience in greenfield environments or scaling early-stage financial software infrastructure is preferred.
Benefits
- Responsible PTO policy and flexible working environment
- Up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year with dependent coverage
- Monthly gym reimbursement
- Restricted Stock Units with a 3-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval
- Free Coursera subscription and PXA courses
- 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks for the secondary caregiver
- Technology stipend for home-office setup and monthly internet allowance
About Impact.com
impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform, is transforming the way businesses manage and optimize all types of partnerships—including traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers, B2B, and more. The company’s powerful, purpose-built platform makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with the brands and communities that customers trust to make purchases, get information, and entertain themselves at home, at work, or on the go. To learn more about how impact.com’s technology platform and partnerships marketplace is driving revenue growth for global enterprise brands such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oreal and Fanatics, visit www.impact.com.