Senior QA Engineer
Impact.com6 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Own automated coverage for REST/JSON APIs, high-throughput serving paths, and consumer-driven contracts across service boundaries.
- Test authentication, authorization, malformed input, boundary and idempotency behavior, versioning, backward compatibility, performance, and latency.
- Validate event flows, reporting data, operational persistence, reconciliation, attribution, aggregation, and customer-facing reports using SQL.
- Test Kafka message contracts, schema evolution, ordering, duplication, replay, and consumer failure modes.
- Automate multi-step UI journeys across legacy server-rendered and modern TypeScript frontends, including component, visual, validation, permission, and tracking behavior.
- Diagnose production issues using logs, metrics, dashboards, and cross-service request or transaction correlation.
- Define testing isolation strategies for external and cross-team integrations using contracts, stubs, service virtualization, and real sandboxes where appropriate.
- Apply AI-assisted test generation, triage, exploratory testing, agentic workflows, MCP servers, and agent skills with rigorous review.
- Define the squad's functional, regression, integration, contract, performance, and data-quality strategy and embed trusted quality gates in CI/CD.
- Track quality metrics, provide release-readiness and go/no-go input, participate in incident analysis, partner with product and engineering leaders, and mentor QA peers.
Requirements
- 6+ years of hands-on QA or SDET experience with recent ownership of automated coverage for a long-lived production product.
- Hands-on API testing depth, including authentication, negative cases, versioning, and verifying persisted writes.
- Practical consumer-driven contract testing experience across service boundaries in CI, using Pact or an equivalent.
- Strong SQL skills for validating warehouses, operational databases, reports, reconciliation, aggregation, and attribution; BigQuery is preferred.
- Hands-on Kafka or equivalent event-broker testing experience covering schemas, ordering, duplication, replay, idempotency, and consumer failures.
- UI automation experience with a modern framework, preferably Playwright, across stateful multi-step and legacy server-rendered journeys.
- Experience using Grafana or an equivalent monitoring tool to investigate behavior and define quality signals.
- Practical experience with agentic AI, MCPs, agent skills, or AI test harnesses, together with critical review judgment.
- Infrastructure foundations including Docker, CI/CD pipelines, GCP or another cloud ecosystem, and the ability to read Java, Go, and TypeScript.
- Experience owning quality standards, framing ambiguous problems, making decisions with incomplete information, learning independently, and influencing engineering partners.
- Preferred qualifications include ad tech, programmatic, affiliate, marketplace, high-throughput or low-latency service testing, caching-layer testing, performance and load testing, test-framework migration leadership, OWASP familiarity, security testing, SRE principles, production ownership, and AI or LLM product testing.
Benefits
- Responsible PTO policy and flexible working environment.
- Up to 12 fully covered therapy or coaching sessions per year, with additional dependent coverage.
- Monthly gym reimbursement.
- Restricted Stock Units with a three-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
- Free Coursera subscription and PXA courses.
- Fully paid parental leave of 26 weeks for primary caregivers and 13 weeks for secondary caregivers.
- Technology stipend for a home office and monthly internet allowance.
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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.