QA Engineer (Part-time, Remote in Canada)

**Heads-up: this job will only be open until 5pm PT on Sunday, September 13, 2026 so please apply right away if interested.**

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

We are looking for a detail-oriented QA Engineer to become our first dedicated QA hire. This role is a mix: hands-on manual testing where human judgment matters most, and building automations where it’s most useful. You will have the freedom and responsibility to create and implement QA processes from the ground up, from defining test strategies to recommending and setting up our automated testing tools with our engineers. Your work ensures the quality and reliability of a platform that municipalities and their residents depend on every day.

Beyond testing our own platform, over the next six months we are building an AI and automation pipeline that converts municipal website content into structured records, and you will help define what correct output looks like, judge the quality of what the AI produces, and help validate migrated content at scale. If you want your QA practice to include hands-on AI quality assurance work, this role is for you.

This is a part-time position, and we will work with you to set a weekly schedule that fits your life and our needs. If we all work together well and the company continues to grow, you would be first in line should the role continue.
What You’ll Do

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Develop test plans and cases: Create and execute test strategies and test cases for our platform and customer project implementations.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Content and migration quality: Check migrated municipal content for accuracy, structure, and metadata quality as we bring new municipalities onto the platform.

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Web accessibility testing: Ensure customer web projects and our platform meet web accessibility standards, including WCAG 2.2 AA compliance.

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Defect management: Identify, log, and track defects in Jira, collaborating with leadership, design, and development team members on resolution.

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Collaborate: Provide clear updates on QA progress and support team members to ensure smooth, quality-focused delivery.

What We’re Looking For

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A QA professional with 3+ years of experience: You have tested web app and website frontends and backend APIs, both manually and with automation.

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A process builder: You thrive in ambiguity and enjoy creating solutions and processes where none currently exist. You are motivated by the opportunity to shape the entire QA function.

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An engineer test automation prac