About Aplos:
With Aplos, nonprofit groups of every shape, size, and mission can seamlessly run their finances and operations, manage their business and bottom line, and proactively engage their communities and donors when it matters most. We’re a remote team, spread across North America (with peers all over the world).
Aplos is the largest nonprofit & church management software on the market. We’ve served over 40,000 organizations since our inception in 2009. Our all-inclusive platform provides a dynamic CRM, fundraising & giving tools, online donations & payment processing, built-in fund accounting system, integrated payroll, email marketing, website builder, and much more.
With Aplos, nonprofit groups of every shape, size, and mission can seamlessly run their finances and operations, manage their business and bottom line, and proactively engage their communities and donors when it matters most. We’re a remote team, spread across North America (with peers all over the world).
We’re seeking new team members to join our ever growing team and play a key role in growing our product for Aplos, as well as our sister products, Raisely and Keela.
About the role:
A Quality Assurance Engineer advocates for quality throughout the software lifecycle and works within a cross-functional
feature team. A Quality Assurance Engineer will collaborate with product managers, software engineers, and DevOps to
ensure the delivery of high quality releases. They will also review requirements, technical implementation designs, perform
manual tests, and contribute to the expansion of automated test coverage.
In this role, you will:
- Advocate for quality throughout the software lifecycle.
- Collaborate with engineers to ensure testability of features.
- Design and execute test cases based on requirements and specifications.
- Prepare datasets to test logic, error handling, and system workflows.
- Identify, log, and retest defects, ensuring reproducibility.
- Perform functional, exploratory, regression, API, mobile, and cross-browser testing.
- Use SQL queries and API calls to validate data.
- Develop and maintain automated test scripts.
- Own end-to-end testing for specific features or modules.
- Contribute to test strategies, including risk-based testing.
- Participate in team meetings and training sessions.
- Create and maintain quality documentation.
- Contribute to code reviews through adherence to team standards, best practices and knowledge sharing.
- Contribute to meeting team goals.
- Provide mentorship for junior team members.
- Lead feature training sessions.
- Review and approve quality documentation.
- Perform other related duties and projects as business needs require at the direction of management
We believe that no one meets 100% of the listed qualifications. We are less concerned about whether you’ve done
everything on a laundry list of specific things and more interested in cultivating a pool of candidates who want to join a
connected, mission-driven, hard-working team of practitioners driven by creativity, curiosity, and a goal to change the world. If
you feel like you meet most of the following, we encourage you to apply.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred.
- Minimum 3 years in test automation.
- Proficient in manual testing across various environments (e.g., web, mobile, API).
- Proficient with test design techniques (e.g., equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, state transition, exploratory testing, usability testing).
- Proficient with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Proficient in writing test documentation, requirements review, and creating bug reports.
- Proficient with SQL queries (Filtering, sorting, joining, aggregations, subqueries).
- Proficient in writing, executing, and monitoring automated test suites.
- Proficient with version control systems (e.g.,git, subversion, mercurial).
- Proficient with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests.
- Expertise in functional and non-functional testing (e.g., performance, security).
- Expertise in test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright).
- Strong communication skills and a willingness to learn.
- Strong problem-solving, debugging and analytical skills.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Experience with tools such as Jira/Linear (Project Management), Confluence/Notion/Google Suite (documentation), Slack (communication), Test Rail (Test Case Management), and Aqua (IDE).
- Experience with fund accounting software or fundraising software is a plus.
Why work with us?
- Salary – Pay range depends on location and is $77,000 - $110,000 CAD. Your base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, experience, and geographic location.
- Remote work & leave – We’re a remote-first company. We also have generous PTO plans (4 weeks of vacation, volunteer time off, plus an office closure from Christmas to New Year’s Day!) and support paid parental leave (12 weeks).
- Health Coverage & RRSP - We offer robust medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance coverages and have a 4% match on RRSP.
Location
Remote - Preference for candidates located in BC, AB, MB, ON
Aplos Software takes a Flex First approach to work environments. We ensure that everyone has the resources and equipment to work where they feel most productive. We trust our teams to make the best decision for their work environment.
How to apply:
You’ve got this far! We really want to hear from you. To apply, please see our career’s page at aplos.com/about/careers. We are accepting applications on a rolling basis until we find the right person.
If you have any questions or require accommodations in the interview process, please reach out to recruitment@aplos.com.
Aplos’s Commitment to Equal-Employment, Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity
Aplos provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination
and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected
veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local
laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion,
termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.