QA Engineer

About the role

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.

What you'll do

• 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 prevente...