QA Engineer: Automation & API for EdTech SaaS

Appnovation Technologies; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Challenging work

AI platforms exposure

Inclusive culture

Growth opportunities

Collaborative environment

Exciting projects

Leadership access

Job summary

Appnovation Technologies in Vancouver, BC is seeking a QA Engineer to join a cross-functional scrum team building a modern SaaS platform for K-12 education. You will automate with Playwright, validate REST APIs, and ensure data correctness across multi-step workflows.

You will own test execution, strategy, and defect management, with exposure to API/integration testing and multi-tenant permission checks. Hybrid work in BC possible.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of QA experience testing web applications.
• Hands-on automated testing with Playwright, Cypress or Selenium.
• Experience testing business logic, forms and workflows.
• API testing experience with REST responses, status codes and errors.
• Experience testing permission-based UI and API access.
• SQL proficiency to verify data beyond the UI.
• Clear, reproducible defect reporting for developers.
• Experience writing test cases from acceptance criteria.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and debugging failures.
• Awareness of WCAG 2.x Level AA accessibility concepts.
• Comfort with existing test suites and team standards.
• Experience in agile delivery with refinement, planning, and retrospectives.
• Willingness to raise quality concerns under delivery pressure.
• Must be located in British Columbia, Canada.

Responsibilities

• Review stories and acceptance criteria for testability during refinement.
• Write, execute, and maintain functional test cases for happy path and edge cases.
• Build and maintain Playwright end-to-end automation for user journeys.
• Perform API testing against REST endpoints and validate errors.
• Test multi-tenant permission access across UI and API.
• Execute multi-tenant test scenarios ensuring proper data scoping.
• Validate complex multi-step and long-running processes and retries.
• Check reporting output against source data with SQL queries.
• Conduct accessibility testing using WCAG 2.x AA standards.
• Report defects with reproducible steps and environment details.
• Retest fixes in Jira and maintain traceability of coverage.
• Support release validation and production verification.
• Keep tests running reliably in GitLab CI/CD and investigate failures.
• Maintain test cases and notes in Confluence.

Skills

QA experience

Automated testing

CI/CD

API testing

SQL

Accessibility testing

Agile delivery

Defect reporting

Test case design

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Postman

OpenAPI/Swagger

Jira

Confluence

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Job description

Appnovation Technologies in Vancouver, BC is seeking a QA Engineer to join a cross-functional scrum team building a modern SaaS platform for K-12 education. You will automate with Playwright, validate REST APIs, and ensure data correctness across multi-step workflows.

You will own test execution, strategy, and defect management, with exposure to API/integration testing and multi-tenant permission checks. Hybrid work in BC possible.