Polaris Student — Testing Lead

The Role

What Polaris Student is: an all-in-one academic platform for high school students — grade tracking, an AI-powered study assistant (Polly AI) that turns notes into study guides and quizzes, college and acceptance-chance planning, and a FAFSA deadline tracker.

What I do: run manual QA passes across new and existing features, file and triage bugs before releases, and write lightweight automated checks to catch regressions on core flows. I keep a running testing log — bugs, UX friction points, and feature suggestions found while actually using the product.

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Testing Log

Day 1 — June 28, 2026

The signup map doesn't support anything other than the American curriculum yet — it shows "coming soon." Asked whether that lands in the next update.
The signup page's "Start exploring" button had a scrollbar that shouldn't be there. Marked fixed by Willy.
On mobile, the placement of the Polaris Student AI button (bottom right) blocks access to another button underneath it.
The navigation bar stays visible behind the green banner while talking to the AI assistant, when it shouldn't be.
The AI assistant doesn't show chat history for a user's own past messages. Marked as a one-time bug — follow up if it's reported again.
Typing in the mobile view breaks the layout of the AI assistant's chat window.
Some settings data points are hidden behind the save bar in the mobile view.
Suggested adding an onboarding tutorial for new accounts — the current experience is a lot for a beginner to grasp.

Day 2 — June 29, 2026

Got the AI agent's MD (system prompt) file, which means it can now be inspected and probed more directly.
The calculator doesn't surface a specific error for 0/0 (a math error). Separately, 1/0 returns Infinity instead of an error — flagged as incorrect. Also, log(5) doesn't error even though log() behaves like log10(); asked whether there should be a way to change the log base.
Asked whether adding inverse tangent (arctan) would be a useful addition.

Day 3 — June 30, 2026

Suggested the CV builder could use an AI that pulls from past classes, location (already available from the weather feature), and email/phone if already entered.

Day 4 — July 1, 2026

Liked the rotating/changing token approach — smart and innovative.

Day 5 — July 2, 2026

For the physics equations reference: add gravitational potential energy, elastic potential energy, and elementary formulas for spring period, pendulum period, and conservation of momentum.
Many schools' lunch menus don't repeat on a fixed weekly cycle — the menu feature should account for that.
Suggested adding a text tool to the drawing board feature.

Additional Navigation Bugs

On mobile, the nav bar doesn't collapse back to the hamburger menu correctly after returning from the AI assistant view.
Clicking a nav link while the AI assistant panel is open sometimes leaves the panel open over the new page instead of closing it.

Status

Most of the bugs filed so far have been fixed — the majority were styling issues, with a smaller share being functional bugs. This log will keep getting updated as testing continues.

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