Software Quality Engineer

Our Company:

At impact.com we are passionate about our people, our technology, and are obsessed with customer success. Working together enables us to grow rapidly, win, and serve the largest brands in the world. We use cutting edge technology to solve real-world problems for our clients and continue to pull ahead of the pack as the leading SaaS platform for businesses to automate their partnerships and grow their revenue like never before. 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, Fanatics and Levi’s, visit www.impact.com.

 Your Role at impact.com:

As a Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Impact, your key responsibilities will include delivering high quality software, loudly advocating for software testing best practices, and helping to instill a strong quality mindset in those around you. This role will work closely with 3-5 other Software Quality Assurance Engineers and will be responsible for the quality of our software through every phase of feature delivery. Beyond your immediate scrum team, you will be a quality advocate and coordinator, working informally across teams to guide and influence decisions that improve our quality assurance processes throughout the company.

You will use your deep understanding of different software testing methodologies to build successful testing strategies, documentation and training to create systemic quality improvements. Metrics and accountability will be key aspects of your role. 

Successful applicants will be expected to be detail oriented when testing new features, but will be able to pivot to broader planning efforts with other team leaders when necessary. Our team is global, so strong communication and flexibility are essential.

What You'll Do:

• Hands on software testing of bugs, features and complex software systems
• Certify the quality of new and modified functionality before release to customers
• Analyze requirements and develop test plans
• Create, revise, execute, and review test cases, suites and scenarios
• Monitor system health
• Review and report software defects
• Create and maintain test data
• Write and maintain automated tests
• Create testing tools and frameworks
• Review and action pull requests
• Write and maintain documentation
• Track quality metrics and trends
• Mentor other Quality Assurance Engineers
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives for the quality team
• Present on and discuss relevant and actionable quality topics
• Support multiple cross functional projects simultaneously

 What You Have:

• Strong communication skills
• Strong programming skills
• A deep understanding of testing theory and methodologies
• A solid understanding of the SDLC and Agile methodologies
• A drive to learn and share new things
• An analytical work methodology
• The ability to quickly learn new systems and domains
• At least 8 years experience in software testing
• At least 5 years of test automation experience using multiple testing frameworks

Benefits:

• Hybrid, Casual work environment
• Responsible PTO policy
• Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both
• Training & Development
• Learning the advanced partnership automation products
• Medical Aid and Provident Fund 
• Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
• Group scheme with Momentum for provident fund
• Restricted Stock Units
• 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
• Internet Allowance
• Fitness club fee reimbursements

Technology Stipend

impact.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.

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