Clinch is the recognized leader in omnichannel ad serving, creative automation, and dynamic personalization—powered by our Agentic AI orchestration platform, Flight Control. We help advertisers, agencies, and platforms scale campaigns with speed, efficiency, and intelligence—streamlining everything from creative versioning to activation, ad serving, and performance insights.
We’re proud to have been named a Top 10 Best Place to Work by Ad Age in 2025—our second year running—for our inclusive culture, innovative employee programs, and commitment to well-being.
Position Overview
As an Ad Tech QA Engineer at Clinch, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our platform and integrations within the broader advertising ecosystem. You’ll apply deep technical and analytical expertise to validate features, maintain certifications with media partners, and ensure seamless interoperability across DSPs, SSPs, publishers, and measurement providers.
The Ad Tech QA Engineer position is a hands-on role that bridges QA, ad serving operations, and integration testing—ideal for someone who thrives on problem-solving, precision, and collaboration.
Requirements
Quality Assurance & Testing
- Develop, execute, and automate test plans to validate product functionality, integrations, and ad delivery performance.
- Conduct detailed QA for new features, API connections, and ad-serving workflows across web, mobile, video, and CTV environments.
- Identify, document, and track bugs; partner with Engineering and Product to drive timely resolution.
- Ensure test coverage aligns with product requirements and certification criteria.
Ad Tech Expertise
- Serve as a subject matter expert in ad serving protocols, creative delivery, and tracking methodologies.
- Troubleshoot issues with trafficking, measurement, and delivery across platforms and environments.
- Stay current with industry standards, partner API updates, and IAB/MRC guidelines to ensure platform compliance.
Integration & Certification Support
- Validate Clinch’s integrations and certifications with key partners (DSPs, SSPs, publishers, and data providers).
- Collaborate with Product and Partner Engineering to manage end-to-end testing for new features and partner launches.
- Monitor certification KPIs and contribute to continuous process improvement.
Documentation & Collaboration
- Create and maintain QA documentation, including test cases, certification checklists, and troubleshooting guides.
- Share findings and insights across Product, Engineering, and AdOps to ensure alignment and readiness.
- Support internal training on QA best practices and testing protocols.
Success Criteria
None
Experience
- 4+ years of experience in QA, ad tech, or digital advertising operations.
- Strong understanding of ad serving technologies, APIs, creative formats, tracking, and delivery.
- Proven experience testing integrations within DSPs, SSPs, or publisher environments.
- Hands-on running big data queries, SQL, experience with dev tools, debugging tools, API testing, and QA automation frameworks.
- Exceptional attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to translate technical concepts for cross-functional teams.
- Familiarity with privacy, compliance, and ad measurement standards is a plus.
Benefits
Why Join Us
- Compensation commensurate with experience
- Unlimited PTO
- Medical, Dental, & Vision plans
- 401K with matching
- Stipend reimbursements (mobile phone service, gym membership, and pet insurance)
- Flexible work schedule
- Life @ Clinch: Team Happy Hours, Outings (virtual and in-person), great office culture + much more!
- Clinch has been certified as a “Greatest Place to Work” for 2021-2025!
- Various perks and discounts
- Employees receive a complimentary Grubhub+ Membership! Enjoy unlimited $0 delivery fees with Grubhub+ restaurants.
Salary Range
$90,000 - $150,000 (Compensation commensurate with experience)
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What We Do
Clinch leads the industry in developing platforms that help brands and agencies advertise better. The company’s AI-driven Personalization/DCO technology delivers custom-tailored ad experiences across all channels, driving best-in-class performance and ROI, while its Omnichannel Campaign Management Platform, Flight Control, enables agencies to manage the entire campaign lifecycle, from strategy through activation and measurement on a single platform that makes agencies massively more productive, efficient, and profitable with automated workflows that save time and money. Flight Control replaces all the point solutions that have become part of the planning, activation, optimization, and measurement of ad campaigns with a single, unified, media-agnostic, SaaS platform already integrated with your DSP and all other partners. Built with agencies for agencies, Flight Control eliminates complexity through campaign workflow automation and makes agencies more efficient and profitable. Flight Control includes: - Innovative Visual UI to enable transparent, end-to-end team collaboration - Workflow automation to eliminate errors and delays - Omnichannel Personalization/DCO to improve campaign performance - Smart Ad Serving that learn from its results across every channel - Powerful Consumer Engagement Intelligence that enriches first party data
