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About the Role As the QA Engineer on this project, you will be the embedded quality voice on a dedicated, cross-functional scrum team building a modern operational SaaS platform for K-12 education. The platform automates administrative processes for school divisions, so the testing problem is not primarily visual - it is correctness across multi-step workflows, asynchronous integrations, permission-sensitive views, and reporting data that district administrators will make decisions on. Quality is embedded throughout delivery rather than a gate at the end. You will review stories for testability during refinement, write and execute test cases, build and maintain Playwright automation, and validate releases before they ship. You will work closely with the Technical Lead on test strategy for larger features, and take independent ownership of test execution, coverage, and defect management for the work in front of you. This is a solid role for a QA engineer ready to broaden beyond UI test execution. You will get hands-on exposure to API and integration testing against .NET services, multi-tenant permission testing under Keycloak and OpenFGA, and validating data that flows from PostgreSQL into a ClickHouse analytics store. The platform is moving from pilot deployments toward general availability, with support available from the Technical Lead and senior engineers as you take on more of the harder testing problems.
Key Responsibilities Reviewing stories and acceptance criteria for testability during refinement,



and asking questions where requirements are unclear or incomplete
Writing, executing, and maintaining functional test cases covering happy paths, edge cases, and negative scenarios
Building and maintaining Playwright end-to-end automation for user journeys, working within the established framework and patterns
Performing API testing against .NET REST endpoints, including request/response validation, error handling, and permission behaviour
Testing role- and permission-based access across the UI and API, including verifying that restricted actions are correctly denied
Executing multi-tenant test scenarios to confirm data is correctly scoped per school division, working from strategy defined with the Technical Lead
Testing multi-step and long-running processes, including validating that the application behaves correctly when a process fails, retries, or resumes
Validating reporting and analytics output against source data using SQL queries
Conducting browser-based and responsive testing across supported devices and breakpoints
Performing accessibility testing against WCAG 2.x Level AA using automated tooling and manual keyboard navigation
Reporting defects with explicit reproduction steps, environment detail, and severity assessment, and retesting fixes in Jira
Maintaining traceability between acceptance criteria, test coverage, and defects




Supporting release validation and production verification after deployment
Keeping automated tests running reliably in GitLab CI/CD, and investigating failures rather than re-running them
Maintaining test cases and testing notes in Confluence as part of the definition of done
Following established test practices and avoiding brittle patterns - hard-coded waits, unstable selectors, shared test-state dependencies, and environment-specific assumptions
Participating in refinement, planning, review, and retrospective as a member of a self-directed scrum team
Must-Have At least 3 years of QA experience testing web applications
Hands-on experience writing and maintaining automated tests in Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium
Experience testing web applications with real business logic - forms, workflows, dashboards - rather than primarily content or marketing sites
Practical API testing experience, including validating REST responses, status codes, and error handling
Experience testing applications where user permissions or roles change what is visible and available
Basic to intermediate SQL - able to write queries to verify data rather than relying only on the UI
Ability to write clear, reproducible defect reports that developers can act on without follow-up
Experience writing test cases from acceptance criteria
Familiarity with running automated tests in a CI/CD pipeline and investigating failures
Awareness of WCAG 2.x Level AA and experience with basic accessibility checks
Comfortable working within an existing test suite, framework, and set of team standards
Experience working in agile delivery with refinement, planning, review, and retrospective
Willingness to raise quality concerns clearly, including when there is delive

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📌 Associate QA (British Columbia)
🏢 Appnovation
📍 British Columbia