QA Chapter Lead

About the role

About impact.com:

impact.com is the world’s leading commerce partnership marketing platform, transforming the way businesses grow by enabling them to discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the entire customer journey. From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products - Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and Advocate (customer referral) - unify every type of partner into one integrated platform. As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands - including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, and Fanatics - rely on impact.com to power more than 350,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

Your Role at impact.com:

The QA Chapter Lead is responsible for defining, implementing, and overseeing quality assurance strategies to ensure the delivery of high-quality software products for the group. This role bridges technical QA execution and leadership, guiding QA engineers while collaborating closely with development, product, and DevOps teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle

What You'll Do:

As a QA Chapter Lead for the Data Group, you will lead a critical function focused on both the technical infrastructure and the human element of Quality Assurance. Your responsibilities will include:

- Quality Strategy & Process

- Define and maintain QA standards, methodologies, and best practices

- Establish test strategies for functional, regression, integration, performance, and security testing

- Ensure quality gates are integrated into CI/CD pipelines

- Drive continuous improvement of QA processes and tools

- Leadership & Team Management

- Lead, mentor, and support QA engineers (manual and automation)

- Plan QA resource allocation and testing schedules

- Conduct reviews, provide feedback, and support skill development

- Promote a culture of quality ownership across teams within the group

- Test Planning & Execution

- Own test plans, test cases, and test data strategy

- Oversee test execution and defect management lifecycle

- Ensure adequate test coverage and risk-based testing

- Validate acceptance criteria and release readiness

- Ensuring coverage for smoke testing post release.

- Automation & Tooling

- Drive test automation strategy and framework selection

- Ensure effective use of automation tools and test management systems

- Collaborate with DevOps on CI/CD integration

- Monitor test execution metrics and reporting

- Stakeholder Collaboration