QA Engineer

Pennant Services

17d • Remote

About The Position

We're hiring a QA engineer to embed with the application team and raise the quality bar across a product undergoing significant change. You'll be the person who catches what's broken before users do, partners with engineers to prevent bugs in the first place, and helps grow our automated testing practice alongside the application team. You'll test thoughtfully, find the bugs that matter, identify which flows need automation first, and grow a Playwright-based E2E suite alongside our application engineers. Your manager will provide strategic direction on test architecture; your job is to execute, refine, and become the team's quality conscience. This role works closely with our DevSecOps engineer, who owns the security and static-analysis layer of our CI/CD pipeline (ESLint, semgrep, gosec for Go, and GitHub Advanced Security). You'll own the functional and behavioral testing layers those tools don't cover — making sure features actually work, not just that the code is clean. At The Pennant Group, our culture is rooted in CAPLICO—Customer Second, Accountability, Passion for Learning, Love One Another, Intelligent Risk‑Taking, Celebration, and Ownership. We look for leaders who embody these values and elevate them through their work, their teams, and the employee experience.

Requirements

• 3–6 years in a QA or test engineering role, ideally on web application teams.
• Strong testing instincts — you find bugs because you're curious about how things break, not just because you ran a script.
• Hands-on experience with E2E test automation for web applications (Playwright preferred; Cypress, Selenium, or similar acceptable).
• Comfort reading code in at least one modern language. You don't need to be a developer, but you should be able to follow what a feature does without hand-holding.
• Solid understanding of HTTP, REST APIs, and how to test them (Postman, curl, or equivalent).
• Clear written communication — bug reports, test plans, and documentation are a significant part of the job.
• Comfort working in an environment where things are actively being built and refined. You won't have a perfectly stable target to test against.

Nice To Haves

• Experience testing applications built on modern JavaScript frameworks (Svelte, React, Vue, or similar). Direct Svelte experience is a plus but not required — we'll happily teach the framework to a strong tester.
• Familiarity with Go — enough to read it and write basic tests, not full development fluency.
• Exposure to healthcare data, HIPAA, or other regulated-data environments, including practices for working with PHI in test environments.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar) in a testing or QA context. We're rolling these out across the team and welcome candidates who are curious about how they change the QA discipline.
• Experience contributing to or shaping testing strategy on a team, not just executing test plans handed to you.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions in particular) and how automated tests fit into them.

Responsibilities

• Test features hands-on as they're built — exploratory testing, edge case hunting, and bug triage across our web application (Svelte front-end and Go backend).
• Partner with application engineers during development to clarify acceptance criteria, surface ambiguity early, and reduce the bugs that make it to QA in the first place.
• Build and grow an end-to-end test suite using Playwright against our Svelte frontend, prioritizing the user flows that matter most to the business.
• Define and document testing standards for the application team — what to test, what coverage looks like, how bugs are reported, and how regressions are prevented.
• Coordinate with the DevSecOps engineer to ensure functional tests integrate cleanly into the existing CI/CD pipeline.
• Manage test data responsibly, including working with synthetic or de-identified datasets when testing against healthcare data sources.
• Participate in agile ceremonies — sprint planning, refinement, retros — as a full member of the application team, not a separate function.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed