Embedded QA Engineer (Playwright/TypeScript) at Aphex

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 — through development and release sign-off, to post-release verification in production.

• 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 — readiness/synchronization over fixed waits, race conditions, shared-state leaks — using traces, videos, and network/console logs to isolate the real mechanism.

• Read the application source to understand why something fails before touching the test — no guess-and-rerun.

• 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, and reliably tell a real product bug from a test artifact.

• 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. Our principle is systemic, not silver-bullet — you solve problems at the source and build gates that make quality repeatable and head off whole classes of issues, rather than patching each symptom as it surfaces.

• Take an idea from concept to implementation, independently — you can ideate, stress-test, and build a solution end-to-end, and you enjoy experimenting with new approaches from a solid engineering foundation.

Hard requirements

• 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 — you structure automation for maintainability and reuse (POM, shared fixtures, clear separation of concerns), not brittle one-off scripts.

• Demonstrable flaky-test remediation — you've made an unreliable suite deterministic, not just written new tests.

• 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 — bug reports and PR reviews someone unfamiliar can act on.

• Embedded-QA mindset — comfortable owning quality across the whole lifecycle, not just executing or automating tests handed to you.

Nice to have

• 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.

How you work

• Root-cause mindset; you dig for the mechanism instead of reaching for the masking fix.

• Pragmatic judgment; you test behaviour, not incidental state, and you know when not to file a ticket.

• Ownership and thoroughness; you leave the suite more reliable than you found it.

• Proactive collaborator; clear with engineers, PMs, and non-technical stakeholders alike.

What We Offer

• 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, and strive to walk the talk on that every day.

• 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 — you’ll need to join us to see where we have planned in 2026!

• One annual all-expenses-paid international team offsite.

• Annual training allowance.

• MindFi EAP access.

• Employee Referral Program.