QA Chapter Lead

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance or Software Development Engineering in Test (SDET), with a strong background in test automation and platform development.
• Leadership experience, ideally including more than a year leading, mentoring, and developing QA teams.
• Deep knowledge of testing methodologies, tools, and frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, TestRail, CI/CD integration, and API testing.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills, with the ability to align and influence stakeholders across teams.
• A proactive, innovative approach to improving quality, efficiency, and developer experience.
• Hands-on agentic AI experience within engineering workflows, including MCPs, agents and agent skills, and testing harnesses powered by them.
• Hands-on data-quality experience with data pipelines, ETL, or warehouse and reporting platforms, including cross-system reconciliation, production checks driven by rules or assertions, schema or contract testing for replicated data, and integration testing with real data stores such as BigTable, MySQL, SingleStore, or Kafka.
• Working SQL knowledge sufficient to independently verify data correctness, with experience testing SQL-centric products or query layers, including SQL parsing and parameter binding, injection safety, explain-plan and performance behavior, and persistence round-trips.
• Preferred: experience leading test framework migrations.
• Preferred: familiarity with OWASP guidelines and security testing tools.
• Preferred: Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA.

Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain QA standards, methodologies, and best practices.
• Establish testing strategies for functional, regression, integration, performance, and security testing.
• Integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and continuously improve QA processes and tools.
• Lead, mentor, and support manual and automation QA engineers; plan resource allocation and testing schedules; provide feedback and support skill development.
• Promote quality ownership across teams in the group.
• Own test plans, test cases, and test data strategy; oversee test execution and defect management.
• Ensure adequate test coverage and risk-based testing, validate acceptance criteria and release readiness, and ensure post-release smoke test coverage.
• Drive test automation strategy and framework selection, promote effective use of automation and test management tools, and collaborate with DevOps on CI/CD integration.
• Monitor test execution metrics and reporting.
• Partner with Product Managers to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria, and work with Engineering Leads to address quality risks.
• Communicate quality status, risks, and metrics to stakeholders; support release planning and go/no-go decisions.
• Collaborate with QA platform and enablement teams to evaluate and implement emerging tools and technologies for the QA function.

Technologies:

• Agentic AI
• AI
• API
• CI/CD
• DevOps
• ETL
• Support
• Kafka
• Marketing
• MySQL
• OWASP
• Playwright
• SQL
• Security
• Selenium
• REST
• Shopify

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We are the worlds leading commerce partnership marketing platform, helping businesses discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the customer journey. Our integrated products support affiliate, creator, and customer-referral partnerships, and more than 5,000 global brands rely on our platform to power over 350,000 partnerships. As our QA Chapter Lead for the Data Group, you will guide quality assurance across both technical infrastructure and team practices, working closely with development, product, and DevOps teams. The annual salary range is $130,000–$150,000 USD, plus a 5% variable bonus tied to company performance and potential eligibility for an RSU grant; compensation may vary based on skills, qualifications, and experience. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts and a 401(k); responsible paid time off; mental health and wellness support, including covered therapy or coaching sessions and a gym reimbursement; RSUs subject to Board approval; Coursera and PXA learning opportunities; paid parental leave; and home-office technology and internet support. Office perks include Thursday catered lunches, snacks, and coffee. We are an equal-opportunity workplace committed to fair treatment and employment opportunity.

last updated 43 week of 2026