QA Engineer (Part-time, Remote in Canada)

Hiring Information

Intermediate to Senior | Remote in Canada | 6 months, Part-time Term Employee | 20 Hours per Week (Mon-Thu) | Hiring Budget: $32/hr - $40/hr

About Us

Hiya! We're SimpliCity , a Vancouver-based GovTech startup building technology with purpose. Our core product is a composable content management system (CMS) that unifies municipal digital services, transforming a municipality's website from a static library into a connected "front door" for the community. We are a small but mighty team that values diversity, curiosity, and the drive to continuously learn and improve.

What You'll Do

• Develop test plans and cases: Create and execute test strategies and test cases for our platform and customer project implementations.
• Manual and automated testing across the lifecycle: You run functional and regression testing within our sprints, plus usability, cross-browser, responsive, and integration (end-to-end flow) testing across websites, web apps, and APIs, to catch issues before our customers do.
• Testing at every stage: Test incrementally during development, verify release candidates before they ship, and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with customers so high-priority issues are resolved before launch.
• Test automation and setup: Write and maintain automated test scripts in JavaScript or TypeScript with tools like Playwright (preferred) or Cypress, and you may recommend and set up our testing tools alongside our engineers.
• AI output validation: Define correct output for our AI content-migration pipeline, judge the quality of AI-generated records against source content, and track which items the pipeline handled versus manual work.
• Content and migration quality: Check migrated municipal content for accuracy, structure, and metadata quality as we bring new municipalities onto the platform.
• Web accessibility testing: Ensure customer web projects and our platform meet web accessibility standards, including WCAG 2.2 AA compliance.
• Defect management: Identify, log, and track defects in Jira, collaborating with leadership, design, and development team members on resolution.
• Collaborate: Provide clear updates on QA progress and support team members to ensure smooth, quality-focused delivery.

What We're Looking For

• QA professional with 3+ years of experience: You have tested web app and website frontends and backend APIs, both manually and with automation.
• A process builder: You thrive in ambiguity and enjoy creating solutions and processes where none currently exist.
• An engineer test automation practitioner: You are proficient with tools like Playwright or Cypress, API testing tools like Postman, and SQL for database checks.
• Comfortable in a JavaScript stack: You can read our JavaScript, NodeJS, and ReactJS codebase, debug issues, and build small internal testing tools and scripts within it.
• An accessibility advocate: You know the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 AA+) and have experience testing for compliance, because we work with local governments and inclusive experiences are a core requirement.
• Extremely detail-oriented and organized: You take pride in catching what others overlook, and you communicate clearly, particularly in writing.
• A responsible AI collaborator: You are curious about using AI tools to improve testing coverage and quality, and equally comfortable judging AI output with a skeptical, evidence-based eye.

Bonus Skills and Experience

We don't expect you to have any/all of these skills or experiences. However, if you do, be sure to highlight them when you apply. Experience testing integrations and embedded thir