Senior QA Engineer

About Aphex

We're the construction planning platform replacing outdated spreadsheets with multiplayer tools that delivery teams love. Major contractors like BAM, Balfour Beatty, SKANSKA, Kier, MACE, and Murphy use Aphex to deliver projects ranging from £50 million to multi-billion-pound megaprojects. We're tackling an industry that drives 10% of global GDP yet has seen productivity decline for 20 years.

About the Role

You'll be embedded directly in the product team as its dedicated QA owner, responsible for quality across your product area (Planner or Diary) end-to-end from ideation through post-release. You are the quality voice from feature scoping onward, owning the E2E automation suite (Playwright/TypeScript) that guards features in CI across multiple environments and regions.

Key Responsibilities

• Own quality end-to-end for your product area, engaging from ideation and refinement through development, release sign-off, and post-release verification in production
• Own and extend the E2E automation suite using Playwright/TypeScript, Page Object Model, per-worker isolation, and seeded test data
• Drive test reliability by diagnosing and eliminating flakiness at the root using traces, videos, and network/console logs
• Read application source code to understand failure mechanisms before modifying tests
• Review automation PRs for correctness and maintainability; set and uphold standards across the suite
• Balance automation with exploratory and manual testing, exercising judgment on what's worth automating
• Partner with engineers and PMs in Agile workflows, raising well-evidenced defects and distinguishing real product bugs from test artifacts
• Close the loop post-release—verify in production, monitor for regressions, and feed findings back to the team
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), test reporting (Qase), and test-data seeding infrastructure
• Build scalable, deterministic quality systems that solve problems at the source rather than patching symptoms
• Take ideas from concept to implementation independently, experimenting with new approaches from a solid engineering foundation

Hard Requirements

• 5+ years in software QA with substantial hands-on E2E UI automation experience
• Strong expertise in a modern E2E framework—Playwright preferred (Cypress/Selenium transferable)—and JavaScript/TypeScript
• Page Object Model and test-architecture experience; ability to structure automation for maintainability and reuse
• Demonstrated experience remediating flaky tests and making unreliable suites deterministic
• Comfortable reading application code (front-end and sufficient back-end to trace failures to their source)
• Proficiency with CI/CD and Git PR workflows (GitHub Actions or equivalent); confident debugging from CI artifacts
• Clear, evidence-based written communication for bug reports and PR reviews
• Embedded-QA mindset—comfortable owning quality across the entire lifecycle, not just executing handed-off tests

Nice to Have

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

How You Work

• Root-cause mindset: You dig for mechanisms instead of reaching for masking fixes
• Pragmatic judgment: You test behaviour, not incidental state, and know when not to file a ticket
• Ownership and thoroughness: You leave the suite more reliable than you found it
• Proactive collaborator: Clear communicator with engineers, PMs, and non-technical stakeholders

What We Offer

• High-performing, genuinely collaborative and motivated team
• Ongoing training, learning, and coaching to improve daily
• Strong focus on culture and real impact
• Growth opportunities as Aphex scales across new markets
• One annual all-expenses-paid international team offsite
• Annual training allowance
• MindFi EAP access
• Employee Referral Program

Equal Opportunity: Aphex does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, or other non-merit factors. We encourage applications from underrepresented groups even if you don't meet 100% of listed requirements.