About Forward
Forward is a consulting firm that works exclusively with independent consultants to help startups build their engineering organizations.
About the Work
Keywords: Automation, QA, Playwright, AI
Budget: $65-$90/h
Hours per week: 40
Term: 3 months
Location: U.S only
Working hours: overlap with CT
Start date: Immediately
Company stage: Founded in 2012
Context
We are working with a company that's the leading vendor of physician compensation solutions. Their technology helps hospitals and healthcare organizations manage payments to doctors and other care providers, as well administrative contracts, regulatory compliance, and more.
They have recently rebuilt their technology from the ground up, and are looking for a QA engineer to help define and fully automate system level tests, beginning with happy paths and expanding to cover edge cases.
You will report to the CTO, and work with their existing team of 4 other QA engineers, leveraging AI agents to ensure that all bases are covered.
About You
Roughly in order of importance:
- You have experience implementing end-to-end tests of complex systems
- You are an expert user of Playwright, ideally using TypeScript
- You are comfortable + proficient with agentic development (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) and frontier LLM
- You enjoy formulating and automating test plans, producing actionable reports covering the status of each test
- You have 6+ years of experience
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