Experienced Qa Engineer In Education Tech - $45 An Hour

Location: Toronto, Ontario

About our client

Our client is a Ministry-inspected online high school offering Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) credits to students around the world. Founded in 2010, they served over 30,000 students in 2025, making them one of the largest K-12 schools in Canada by enrollment. Their proprietary Learning Management System (LMS) powers course delivery, assignments, assessments, and communication between students and teachers.

The opportunity

This is an Individual Contributor (IC) role and a rare chance to build a QA function from the ground up. You will own quality for a platform used by thousands of students, working closely with engineering to test new features, validate fixes, investigate user-reported issues, and build automated coverage for core LMS workflows. The LMS is a proprietary PHP and MySQL web application running in a Linux environment, with eCommerce powered by a proprietary WordPress website.

What you will do

• Test new LMS features and releases before deployment, and perform regression testing to keep existing functionality stable.
• Validate critical student workflows, including login, course enrollment, lesson progression, assignments, and grading.
• Investigate technical issues reported by students, teachers, and internal teams, and create clear, reproducible bug reports.
• Develop and maintain automated tests for core LMS workflows, and reduce manual testing through automation.
• Use AI-assisted testing tools responsibly to accelerate test creation, coverage, and triage.
• Help test critical revenue workflows in course purchasing and checkout, ensuring reliable