impact.com
QA Chapter Lead
$130K–$150K
Columbus, OH +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Location
- Columbus, OH
Columbus, Ohio, United States - Experience
- 5+ years in QA and/or SDET roles; leadership experience ideally includes leading, mentoring, and growing QA teams for more than a year.
About the job
Leads QA strategy, practices, and engineers for the Data Group, embedding testing and quality controls throughout software development and release workflows.
What you'll do
- Set QA standards and test strategies, including integrating quality gates into CI/CD pipelines.
- Lead and mentor QA engineers; oversee test planning, execution, automation, defect management, and release readiness.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and DevOps teams on quality risks, metrics, release decisions, and QA tools.
What they ask for
- 5+ 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.
- Hands-on experience putting AI at the front of engineering workflows, including MCPs, agents, agent skills, and testing harnesses driven by them.
- Hands-on data-quality experience testing or monitoring data pipelines, ETL, or warehouse/reporting platforms; experience testing SQL-centric products or query layers, with working knowledge of SQL.
- Deep expertise in testing methodologies, tools, and frameworks; strong communication and collaboration skills.
Nice to have
- Experience leading test framework migrations.
- Familiarity with OWASP guidelines and security testing tools; Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA.
Pay
USD 130,000.00 - USD 150,000.00 per year (base salary); 5% variable annual bonus contingent on Company performance
Tools
Selenium, Playwright, TestRail, CI/CD, API testing, MCPs, BigTable, MySQL
AI focus
Hands-on use of agentic AI in engineering workflows, including MCPs, agents, agent skills, and agent-driven testing harnesses.
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