Engineering Manager, Test Platform

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:

Are you passionate about building robust, high-quality software and enabling engineering teams to do the same? Do you thrive on solving complex technical challenges while fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence? We're looking for an experienced and visionary Engineering Manager, Test Platform to lead our newly established QA Platform & Enablement team in Cape Town.

As the Engineering Manager, Test Platform, you will lead a critical function focused on both the technical infrastructure and the people development side of Quality Assurance.

What You'll Do:

Fostering Community:

• Actively cultivate a strong QA Guild across our engineering department. You'll facilitate shared chat channels, organize meetups, and encourage knowledge sharing to break down silos and build connections among QA professionals on various teams.
  
  

Driving Training & Upskilling:

• Identify training needs for our QA Guild members (both Analysts and SDETs). You'll design, plan, and execute comprehensive upskilling programs, workshops on new techniques, and create a centralized knowledge base to ensure faster ramp-up and continuous skill development.
  
  

Defining Standards & Best Practices:

• Collaborate with engineering teams to establish helpful, consistent standards for how we conduct both manual and automated QA. You'll lead the charge in innovating and crowd-sourcing new best practices, with a strong emphasis on increasing automation, improving test planning, and streamlining bug reporting.
  
  

Building the Test Platform:

• Lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of next-generation tools for our test platform stack (e.g., comparing Selenium vs. Playwright). You'll also oversee the development of internal testing libraries, maintain critical testing platform services like Selenium Grid and Sauce Labs, and ensure seamless integration of QA into our broader product management, security, and performance testing processes. This includes building new capabilities to enhance automation efficiency and effectiveness.
  
  

Team Leadership:

• Build, mentor, and grow a dedicated QA Platform & Enablement team, fostering an environment of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  
  

What You Have:

• Several years of experience in Quality Assurance and/or Software Development Engineering in Test (SDET) roles, with a strong background in test automation and platform development.
• Proven leadership experience, ideally managing engineering or QA teams.
• Deep expertise in various testing methodologies, tools, and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, TestRail, CI/CD integration).
• A passion for building communities and enabling technical professionals through training and knowledge sharing.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders across different teams.
• A proactive and innovative mindset, always seeking ways to improve quality, efficiency, and developer experience.
  
  

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 10X 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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