QA Lead

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We’re the construction planning platform replacing outdated spreadsheets with multiplayer tools that delivery teams love.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 Aphexs 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 youre 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.
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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