QA Lead

Department: Engineering

Location: Philippines

Employment Type: FullTime

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We’re the construction planning platform replacing outdated spreadsheets with multiplayer tools that delivery teams love.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. It’s time for change.

About the Role

Join our team as a QA Lead, where you will take charge of Aphex's end-to-end regression suite while collaborating closely with Product Managers, Leads and Engineers to ensure thorough test coverage that meets our acceptance criteria. This is a foundational role with substantial influence; you will establish the QA architecture, choose the right tools, and set standards as you build out your team and oversee our external QA vendor. If you're looking to make a significant impact at a growing construction tech company that is shaping software solutions for major global projects, this could be a great fit.

Responsibilities

• Establish a consistent testing schedule for regression testing to ensure timely and thorough evaluation of the software. Maintain this cadence to meet the quality standards set for the team.

• Recruit and select qualified QA team members to establish a skilled internal team. Lead the team effectively as it grows, ensuring high standards of quality assurance are maintained.

Requirements and Skills

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining E2E test suites at scale with Playwright

• Demonstrable experience managing test flake — diagnosing root causes, setting and enforcing flake budgets, keeping suites trusted

• Experience managing an external QA vendor from the client side (defining scope, directing work, managing transition)

• Experience partnering with Product Managers on acceptance criteria and E2E test specification

• Experience with CI integration, test parallelisation, environment management, and test reporting

• Has owned a test suite end-to-end, not just contributed to one

• Can articulate a point of view on the test pyramid and where E2E fits

• Strong written communication — async / remote-first, working across timezones

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!

• Annual Philippines team offsite

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement

Our company 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. At Aphex, we believe our team should reflect the variety of perspectives in the world we build for. We've noticed that qualified candidates from underrepresented groups sometimes hesitate to apply unless they meet 100% of the listed requirements, while others might apply when meeting just 60%. If you're excited about Aphex and believe you have the core skills to succeed in this role, we encourage you to apply - even if you don't check every box in the description. Your unique perspective might be exactly what we need. If you need any accommodations during the interview process, please let us know.