[Remote] QA Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pennant Services, Inc. is seeking a QA Engineer to enhance the quality of their web application undergoing significant changes. The role involves hands-on testing, collaboration with application engineers, and building an end-to-end test suite to ensure functionality and prevent bugs before users encounter 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

Skills

• 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
• 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

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