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QA Automation Engineer

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

The Company: 

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, L’Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

Your Role at impact.com:

As a QA Engineer on the Platform & Enablement team, you'll be a key part of the team shaping how QA is done at scale across impact.com. While product squads focus on shipping their features, the Platform & Enablement team makes sure they have the frameworks, tooling, training, and reference patterns to do so with confidence — and you'll be the engineer making that happen for our US-region squads day-to-day.

You'll work closely with QA Analysts and SDETs across product teams, helping them adopt our shared frameworks, write better tests, and unblock when they hit walls. Your impact comes through their work as much as your own commits, but you'll have plenty of meaty engineering of your own: extending our internal testing libraries, producing the reference patterns and worked examples teams adopt, evaluating new tooling, and shaping the standards that keep our automation maintainable and trustworthy. You'll work across our primary tech stacks (Java/Selenium and Playwright/TypeScript) and help teams adopt modern practices, including AI-assisted testing approaches.

We value engineers who write clear, idiomatic code, communicate confidently, and genuinely enjoy helping others succeed. If you're energized by building things that make other people's work easier, this role is for you.

What You'll Do:

Test Platform Development

  • Framework Contribution: Extend, refine, and contribute to our internal testing frameworks alongside the central platform team — adding capabilities that the broader QA org adopts.

  • Reference Patterns: Produce worked examples and reference implementations that demonstrate the conventions product teams should adopt for their own automation.

  • Tooling Evaluation: Help evaluate and implement tooling for the test platform stack — running proof-of-concepts, benchmarking options, and producing clear recommendations.

  • Infrastructure Operations: Help operate and improve our shared testing infrastructure services — debugging issues, supporting consuming teams, and keeping things reliable.

Enablement & Training

  • Workshop Delivery: Deliver hands-on workshops and training sessions on automation best practices, framework usage, and new tooling — tailored for QA Analysts and SDETs at varying skill levels.

  • Knowledge Management: Build and maintain a centralized knowledge base — framework guides, coding standards, onboarding materials, worked examples, and FAQs.

  • Pairing & Code Review: Pair with QA Analysts and SDETs across product squads on their own automation work; provide review feedback that raises the bar without slowing teams down.

  • Technical Support: Be the first line of help for QA professionals when they hit blockers — flaky tests, broken CI runs, framework adoption snags, "how do I…?" questions.

Standards & Community

  • Standards Adoption & Advocacy: Adopt, advocate for, and help product squads converge on our shared QA standards and conventions.

  • Pattern Advocacy: When a product team's automation drifts from shared conventions, raise it constructively in code review and help them course-correct.

  • Tooling Feedback: Provide thoughtful, hands-on feedback to the central platform team on what's working and what isn't — your real-world view from working alongside product squads is invaluable.

  • Guild Participation: Active member of the QA Guild — contribute to shared channels, prepare content for meetups, and encourage knowledge sharing.

What You Bring:

  • Hands-On Automation Experience: Solid, multi-year hands-on experience writing well-structured, maintainable test automation in one of our primary stacks (Playwright/TypeScript or Java/Selenium), with working familiarity in the other (enough to read it, contribute small changes, and reason about trade-offs).

  • Test Design Thinking: Strong understanding of test design principles — comprehensive coverage, meaningful assertions, negative testing, and tests that verify actual application behavior.

  • Code Quality Discipline: The discipline to write and review clean, production-quality code that others can learn from and build upon.

  • Code Review Instinct: A track record of reviewing other engineers' test code — spotting problems quickly, communicating fixes constructively, and raising the bar on a team's collective work.

  • Communication & Pedagogy: Clear technical communication — you can write documentation that onboards others, explain technical decisions in plain language, and deliver training that lands across skill levels. You enjoy explaining things.

  • Enablement Mindset: A genuine interest in helping others improve — you enjoy pairing, reviewing work constructively, and building materials that make the next person's job easier.

  • Tooling Judgement: A thoughtful, opinionated relationship with your tools — you can articulate why a stack or approach is the right fit (or isn't) for a given problem, grounded in real experience.

  • CI/CD Familiarity: Comfort with CI/CD integration and the infrastructure that supports automated testing at scale — enough to debug a broken pipeline alongside a product-team QA.

  • AI Awareness: Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and a willingness to explore how AI can improve testing workflows for the teams you support.

  • Containerization: Experience with Docker and containerized test environments for consistent, reproducible test execution across local and CI environments.

Nice to have:

  • Cross-Stack Depth: Strong working depth in both Playwright/TypeScript and Java/Selenium (rather than one primary + one familiar).

  • Framework Authoring: Experience designing test frameworks from scratch (not just consuming and extending them) — packaging libraries for internal distribution, defining shared conventions, etc.

  • Training Experience: Prior experience creating or contributing to training programs, workshops, or internal knowledge bases.

  • Test Management Tools: Familiarity with test management tools and their integration into QA workflows.

  • AI in Testing: Experience applying AI tools to enhance automation development, test creation, or defect analysis.

  • Cross-Timezone Collaboration: Prior experience working as part of a globally-distributed team across multiple timezones.

Salary: $100,000.00 - $120,000.00 CAD per year, plus an additional 5% variable annual bonus contingent on Company performance and eligible to receive a Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) grant.*This is the pay range the Company believes is equitable for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

Benefits and Perks: 

At impact.com, we believe that when you’re happy and fulfilled, you do your best work. That’s why we’ve built a benefits package that supports your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.

  • Strong extended health benefits: Health & Prescription coverage, vision and dental care, virtual health care, out-of-country medical coverage

    • Insurance coverage (life, short-term disability, long-term disability, and more)

    • Health Care Spending Account

    • Two different Employee Assistance Programs

  • Flexible Working: Our Responsible PTO policy means you can take the time off you need to rest and recharge. We're committed to a positive work-life balance and provide a flexible environment that allows you to be happy and fulfilled in both your career and your personal life.

  • Health and Wellness: Your well-being is a priority. Our mental health and wellness benefit includes up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year, with additional dependent coverage. We also offer a monthly gym reimbursement policy to support your physical health.

  • A Stake in Our Growth: We offer Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) as part of our total compensation, giving you a stake in the company's growth with a 3-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.

  • Investing in Your Growth: We’re committed to your continuous learning. Take advantage of our free Coursera subscription and our PXA courses.

  • Parental Support: We offer a generous parental leave policy, 26 weeks of fully paid leave for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks fully paid leave for the secondary caregiver.

  • Technology Financial Support: We provide a technology stipend to help you set up your home office and a monthly allowance to cover your internet expenses. 

Note: Benefits may vary by location and are subject to local regulations.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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