[Hiring] Senior QA Engineer @Aphex

Role Description

Aphex is building out its internal QA function with dedicated, embedded product-team QA — a single owner of quality for a product area. You'll be embedded directly in the product team as its dedicated QA, owning quality for your area, Planner or Diary, end-to-end across the SDLC, from ideation through to post-release.

You're the quality voice from the moment a feature is scoped, and you own the E2E automation suite (Playwright/TypeScript) that guards it in CI across multiple environments and regions.

What you'll do

• Own quality end-to-end for your product area.
• Engage from ideation and refinement — shaping clear, testable acceptance criteria and surfacing risk before code is written.
• Own and extend the E2E automation suite — Playwright/TypeScript, Page Object Model, per-worker isolation, seeded test data.
• Drive test reliability — diagnose and eliminate flakiness at the root.
• Read the application source to understand why something fails before touching the test.
• Review automation PRs for correctness and maintainability; set and uphold standards across the suite.
• Blend automation with exploratory/manual testing — exercise judgment on what's worth automating and what isn't.
• Partner day-to-day with engineers and PMs in an Agile flow — raise well-evidenced defects.
• Close the loop post-release — verify in production, watch for regressions, and feed findings back into the team.
• Maintain the pipeline — CI (GitHub Actions), test reporting (Qase), and test-data/seeding infrastructure.
• Build scalable systems and deterministic quality gates.
• Take an idea from concept to implementation, independently.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software QA, with substantial hands-on E2E UI automation.
• Strong with a modern E2E framework — Playwright preferred (Cypress/Selenium transferable) — and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Page Object Model / test-architecture experience.
• Demonstrable flaky-test remediation.
• Comfortable reading application code (front-end, and enough back-end to trace a failure to its source).
• CI/CD + Git PR workflow (GitHub Actions or equivalent); confident debugging from CI artifacts.
• Clear, evidence-based written communication.
• Embedded-QA mindset.

Requirements

• Playwright specifically; test-management tooling (Qase/TestRail); multi-environment/region test configuration.
• Test architecture at scale — parallelism, isolation, seeded/cloned fixtures.
• Complex, stateful SPA UIs — scheduling/Gantt boards — and auth flows (e.g. WorkOS).
• Experience standing up or maturing a QA function.
• Construction-tech or complex B2B SaaS domain exposure.

Benefits

• A high-performing team: Be part of and contribute to a genuinely collaborative and motivated team.
• Genuine development: Ongoing training, learning, and coaching to get better every day.
• A focus on culture: At Aphex, we are focused on making real impact, together.
• Growth opportunities: As Aphex scales across new markets, your career can scale with it.
• Annual global offsite: In 2025 our team met for a week in Da Nang, Vietnam.
• One annual all-expenses-paid international team offsite.
• Annual training allowance.
• MindFi EAP access.
• Employee Referral Program.