Sr. Associate QA

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About us</strong></p> <p>Appnovation is a global, full-service digital partner that combines Strategy, Experience & Design, Engineering and Managed Services. We build digital solutions that deliver real impact today and serve as foundations for future growth. Bold ambition. Practical action. Endless possibilities.</p></div><h4><strong>About the Role</strong></h4> <p>As the Sr. 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>This is a strong 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.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Reviewing stories and acceptance criteria for testability during refinement, and asking questions where requirements are unclear or incomplete</li> <li>Writing, executing, and maintaining functional test cases covering happy paths, edge cases, and negative scenarios</li> <li>Building and maintaining Playwright end-to-end automation for user journeys, working within the established framework and patterns</li> <li>Performing API testing against .NET REST endpoints, including request/response validation, error handling, and permission behaviour</li> <li>Testing role- and permission-based access across the UI and API, including verifying that restricted actions are correctly denied</li> <li>Executing multi-tenant test scenarios to confirm data is correctly scoped per school division, working from strategy defined with the Technical Lead</li> <li>Testing multi-step and long-running processes, including validating that the application behaves correctly when a process fails, retries, or resumes</li> <li>Validating reporting and analytics output against source data using SQL queries</li> <li>Conducting browser-based and responsive testing across supported devices and breakpoints</li> <li>Performing accessibility testing against WCAG 2.x Level AA using automated tooling and manual keyboard navigation</li> <li>Reporting defects with clear reproduction steps, environment detail, and severity assessment, and retesting fixes in Jira</li> <li>Maintaining traceability between acceptance criteria, test coverage, and defects</li> <li>Supporting release validation and production verification after deployment</li> <li>Keeping automated tests running reliably in GitLab CI/CD, and investigating failures rather than re-running them</li> <li>Maintaining test cases and