Full-Time
QA Engineer
Sovrn
51-200 employees
Monetization tools and analytics for publishers
No salary listed
Boulder, CO, USA
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- A minimum of 2 years of experience in a software quality assurance or test automation role.
- Working knowledge of the Agile development approach.
- Ability to distinguish between white-box and black-box testing.
- Understanding of front-end and back-end development.
- Ability to create comprehensive test plans for complex test scenarios.
- Ability to work independently as a QA resource embedded within a development team.
- Ability to define unit, integration, regression, user-interface, automated, and boundary testing methods.
- Ability to communicate with product and business leads to clarify requirements, validate required behavior, and define acceptance criteria.
- Familiarity with Jira, Jenkins, Cruise Control, and Go.
- Unix/Linux command-line proficiency, including directory navigation, permissions, input/output redirection, command piping, file transfer, file editing, searching, and managing daemons and processes.
- Comfort working in test and production environments.
- Work alongside product management and developers to create, test, and release quality software in a timely and efficient manner.
- Continuously evaluate with the Agile team the most effective ways for QA to support testing.
- Test incomplete features by narrowing the testing scope to completed portions.
- Experience testing Java-based applications.
- Experience with a programming or scripting language such as Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Basic understanding of relational databases and technologies such as SQL, Hive, and Hadoop.
- Experience parsing server-side logs in a Linux/Unix environment.
- Experience testing REST APIs.
- Ability to use browser development tools and understanding of HTTP protocols.
- Experience setting up and executing tests in continuous integration environments such as Jenkins, TeamCity, Go, and Cruise Control.
- Basic SQL knowledge.
- Experience testing Flash or HTML5 video players.
- Experience working with large data sets.
- Experience with FitNesse, SoapUI, Advanced REST Client, Postman, QTP, JMeter, or Selenium.
- Knowledge of or experience with MySQL, Kafka, Hive, Hadoop, Cassandra, or MapR.
Sovrn provides tools and advertising products for publishers to grow audiences and monetize content. Its offerings include an advertising toolbox tied to a certified ad exchange for safe, relevant ads, plus data analytics and commerce services that combine content, audience, and shopping. The Signal product offers actionable insights to boost revenue, with case studies like a 26% increase for Ancient History Encyclopedia, and Instant Pay speeds up advertiser payments. Sovrn differentiates itself by delivering an end-to-end, easy-to-use platform for publishers of all sizes and earning revenue by taking a share of publishers’ earnings.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$162.6M
Headquarters
Boulder, Colorado
Founded
2014
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- July 8, 2026 Commerce Bid Check strengthens monetization when publishers re-route clicks instantly.
- April 15, 2025 Commerce Audiences monetizes purchase-intent data across 500 million daily consumers.
- September 10, 2025 Dappier partnership opens AI advertising revenue without building a model business.
What critics are saying
- March 12, 2026 Sovrn sued Google; adverse rulings could weaken publisher-ad-server economics.
- Sovrn still depends on publisher traffic, so Google search and browser changes hit revenue fast.
- Real-time affiliate bidding commoditizes Sovrn’s edge; Shopify, Impact, and CJ can copy pricing logic.
What makes Sovrn unique
- July 8, 2026 Commerce Bid Check prices clicks in real time, not stale EPC averages.
- April 23, 2026 Mula made Sovrn its default commerce partner across publishers.
- June 16, 2026 Adam Soroca joined the board, adding Magnite and programmatic expertise.
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↑ 3%Adswerve launches Adswerve Premium Supply. New offering by Adswerve gives brands and agencies access to curated, high-quality inventory through a single, expert-led team. Adswerve, a data and media analytics consultancy operating at the intersection of adtech and martech, has announced the launch of Adswerve Premium Supply, a premium supply offering that simplifies media buying, eliminates wasted spend, and gives advertisers access to curated, brand-safe inventory across the open web and premium channels. As programmatic media buying has grown more complex, spanning multiple DSPs, SSPs, and more than 44,000 placement options, so too has the risk of inefficiency. Inefficient ad spend reached $26.8 billion in 2025, according to the Association of National Advertisers, driven in part by hidden supply chain fees, opaque inventory, and a lack of scale to secure top-tier incentives from premium publishers. Adswerve Premium Supply is built to address these challenges head-on. "We saw an opportunity in the market to fill the gap for agencies and ensure they have a direct path to premium supply with added benefits," says Kelly Hayes, Head of Agency Growth at Adswerve. "Adswerve Premium Supply is the most tangible expression of that commitment with pre-negotiated deals, curated inventory, and full transparency, so our clients can streamline the planning and activation process and know exactly what they're buying without the back-and-forth with supply partners." Adswerve Premium Supply is designed to complement advertisers' existing DSP solutions by filling critical inventory gaps and expanding audience reach across premium environments. Adswerve's team of media experts leverages deep industry knowledge, agentic AI, and established partnerships with top platforms and publishers - including LM Supply, Magnite, Cadent, and Sovrn - to vet and curate inventory packages tailored to each client's specific audiences and campaign goals. Key capabilities and benefits include: * Pre-negotiated, evergreen deals: Clients gain immediate access to preferred pricing, CPM efficiencies, and other perks that ensure every media dollar goes further. * Curated premium inventory: Adswerve experts vet thousands of publishers and placements, building packages that target specific audiences and content types while excluding others. * Full transparency: Advertisers know exactly where their ads are running, which audiences they're reaching, and how placements are performing with ongoing feedback loops built-in. * DSP-agnostic design: Adswerve Premium Supply integrates across multiple DSP environments, extending reach without disrupting existing workflows. * Speed and efficiency: By centralising expertise and pre-building deals, Adswerve dramatically reduces the time media teams spend researching options, negotiating contracts, and reconciling disjointed data. Sophia Bennett is a news curator at Martechvibe, covering global developments across marketing technology, digital transformation, AI, data, and customer experience trends. View More
Sovrn has launched Commerce Bid Check, an API that provides real-time bid values for affiliate links before traffic is routed. The tool replaces outdated earnings-per-click (EPC) data with live market pricing. The API allows publishers and commerce partners to request a real-time bid based on click destination, reader, device, and location, then compare offers and route traffic to the highest-paying option. Previously, affiliate routing relied on historical EPC averages from weeks or months prior. "Publishers have made affiliate routing decisions with one hand tied behind their back, working off data that's continually out of date," said Chris George, president of Sovrn. Commerce Bid Check is available now through Sovrn's API documentation. The company serves over 500 million active consumers daily across websites, mobile apps, social networks, and CTV channels.
Adam Soroca joins sovrn Board of Directors. Jun 16, 2026, 10:30 ET Veteran adtech executive and product innovator brings expertise in data, programmatic advertising, and business growth. BOULDER, Colo., June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Publisher technology platform Sovrn today announced the appointment of Adam Soroca to its Board of Directors. A longtime adtech entrepreneur, Soroca brings more than two decades of experience in building and scaling advertising technology companies, with deep expertise across programmatic advertising, audience data, and product strategy. Most recently, Soroca served as Chief Product Officer at Magnite, where he led the company's strategic product direction, roadmap, and go-to-market initiatives. Prior to that role, he helped lead Magnite's buy-side business and was instrumental in the company's growth during its most transformative period. Soroca also founded nToggle, which was acquired by Magnite predecessor Rubicon Project in 2017. He previously held leadership positions at Millennial Media, Jumptap, and Lycos. "Sovrn sits at the intersection of several areas I've spent my career focusing on: unique data assets, programmatic advertising, and emerging AI-driven innovation," said Soroca. "The company has built a differentiated position in the market, and I'm excited to work alongside the team and help unlock new growth opportunities." Soroca holds more than 90 awarded patents spanning mobile advertising and search techniques, and he currently serves on the IAB Tech Lab Programmatic Governance Council. His appointment to the board provides greater depth of expertise in several areas that are critical to Sovrn's short-term and long-term product roadmap. "Adam's track record of building category-defining products and scaling successful businesses makes him an outstanding addition to our Board of Directors," said Sovrn CEO Walter Knapp. "His experience will be invaluable as we continue to expand our platform and help our customers succeed in an increasingly data-driven ecosystem." About Sovrn Sovrn is a software and data company founded on the intersection of advertising, commerce, and consumer behavior. Sovrn helps publishers and creators align supply and demand using product-level commerce and behavior signals, so advertisers can get performance they need, while publishers and creators maximize revenue without losing focus on their core work. Sovrn products are used across websites, mobile apps, social networks, and CTV channels, reaching more than 500 million active consumers daily. Sovrn is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with offices in New York and London. For more information, visit sovrn.com. SOURCE Sovrn Holdings, Inc.
Sovrn, a publisher technology platform, has partnered with Mula, an agentic monetisation operating system for digital publishers, to become the default commerce and affiliate partner within Mula's platform. The integration provides publishers immediate access to Sovrn's affiliate infrastructure without requiring separate configuration. The partnership enables Mula's AI system to automatically surface high-performing affiliate opportunities alongside display and native revenue streams. Publishers retain the option to use their own affiliate keys if preferred. The collaboration reflects a broader industry shift away from single-platform dependence towards diversified commerce strategies. Mula's agentic OS analyses session-level signals in real time to determine optimal monetisation experiences, whilst Sovrn will introduce Mula's capabilities to publishers across its network of over 80,000 websites. The integration is now live.
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - Sovrn, a technology platform that helps publishers and creators earn and keep more revenue, today announced its partnership with Dappier, the AI monetization platform.