Quality Engineer, QA | Remote | US Startup Helping Frontline Workers

Our client is a fast-growing, venture-backed SaaS company helping frontline workers access life-changing benefits like childcare, elder care, and nutrition assistance. Their AI-powered platform connects employees to available government programs—cutting through complexity and delivering support where it matters most. Used by major retailers, healthcare providers, and Fortune 500 companies, the product is trusted to handle sensitive workflows in regulated environments. The fully remote team is mission-driven, pragmatic, and growing quickly, with strong enterprise backing and a clear expansion path. The product has grown into a web app, connections to outside systems and AI chat features, so each release now needs someone who can say whether it’s ready, with evidence. New federal Medicaid rules start January 1, 2027, and the team is building tools that help states keep eligible people covered through them. You’ll start by building the automated tests and the ready-to-ship check for the releases closest to that date. You decide where the risk is, which team needs you most, and what “done” means. Test strategy and automation Build end-to-end journeys, a smoke suite on every build, and integration tests in code engineers review and keep Write a plain-language summary for non-engineers of what’s verified, and push back on a risky date with evidence Testing inside delivery teams Sit with customer-facing teams and test features while they’re being built, moving between teams as workload shifts Set a shared definition of “done” and coach engineers on testing their own work Web app, services and outside systems Run functional, regression and accessibility tests across browsers and devices, and check each customer’s configuration Test APIs and asynchronous flows between services, and write contract tests for outside systems Make sure the product behaves sensibly when a dependency is slow, down or returns wrong data AI chat features Test data and security Seed realistic test data for a complex system, inside strict access and data-protection rules Help find and fix security vulnerabilities in the app and its infrastructure 5+ years in quality, test or software engineering, with automation you wrote yourself, running in CI and kept by other engineers

• Strong test code in Python or TypeScript across API, browser and pipeline, including headless browser runs and integration tests for failing dependencies
• Experience testing business rules you had to learn first: you read the policy, found the gaps, and wrote tests from the answers
• Experience as the only quality person across several teams, setting your own priorities with no backlog handed to you
• Fully remote across the U.Full-time, permanent seat (about 40 hours a week)

Competitive USD compensation (bring your target to the first call) Real authority: you define the testing strategy, the automation and what “good” looks like An engineering buddy to help you get set up from day one Direct impact: your work helps families get and keep the benefits they’re eligible for