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We enable leading pharmaceutical teams to discover and develop drugs faster. We host the industry’s largest federated data networks for drug discovery AI, spanning co-folding, ADMET, and antibody developability. Across these networks, models are trained on proprietary industry datasets to achieve higher performance and broader applicability while keeping data control and IP protected. We deliver these superior models through drug discovery applications that enable teams to run them at scale, further customize them, and integrate them into existing R&D workflows. \nAI Structural Biology (AISB) Network: Pharmaceutical companies collaborate in the field of co-folding, structure-based binding affinity predictions and antibody design.\nADMET Network: Pharmaceutical and biotech companies collaborate to improve small-molecule property prediction and expand into further drug modalities.\nAntibody Developability Network: Pharma partners collaborate to federate historical and purpose-built antibody developability data sets for secure ML training, without data leaving each partner’s environment.\nAbout the role\nAs a Quality Engineer at Apheris, you will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of our products that power AI in life sciences. Our portfolio includes the Apheris Gateway for building and joining federated data networks, as well as the Apheris Foundry that enables local runs of AI-based drug discovery workflows.You will work closely with software engineers and data scientists to design and execute testing strategies for complex, distributed, and GPU-intensive systems - from privacy-preserving federated computations running across multiple organizations to scientist-facing UIs / APIs.\nYou will be responsible for identifying and implementing the best ways to test our products, covering both functional and non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, reliability, security, and usability) to meet the expectations of our high-profile pharmaceutical and life sciences customers.\nAt Apheris, Quality Engineers don’t just “write tests”.\nWe expect you to:\nChampion quality-by-design by collaborating with teams on testability, observability, and robust engineering practices from design through release\nDesign, implement, and maintain automated test suites spanning different test levels\nDefine and enforce quality gates in our CI/CD pipelines to keep feedback loops short and ensure every change meets our quality bar before it reaches customers\nPartner with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to clarify requirements, identify risk early and shape Test Strategies for new features\nBy helping teams enforce strong quality engineering practices across the entire Software Development Lifecycle, you will be a key contributor to the success of our products and have a direct impact on how organizations build better AI models and data products while securely collaborating on sensitive life sciences data.What you will do\nBe a champion regarding quality engineering practices\nBe involved in the development of complex features from the beginning by designing Test Strategies and conducting testing sessions to find bugs at early stages\nWrite automated test cases at different test levels and coach other developers on that matter\nContribute to the development of testing frameworks that support the testing process\nWrite Pipelines as Code that will implement automatic quality gates to enforce best practices on the SDLC\nHelp teams shorten their feedback loops by adopting CI/CD with a DevOps mindset\nCoordinate Release campaigns, helping the engineering team to successfully release our different products\nFacilitate bug grooming and root cause analysis ensuring every defect incident becomes a learning opportunity that continuously strengthens the team's engineering practices\nWhat we expect from you\n5+ years of relevant working experience or a Bachelor / Master / PhD in Computer Science (or related fields, e.g., Physics, Mathematics, Engineering) and 3+ years of relevant working experience\nDevelopment and/or test automation experience, preferably using Python (other OOP languages are also valued)\nAble to write scripts to automate tedious day-to-day tasks (using Python, Bash or anything you like to script with)\nExperience with non-functional testing (performance, reliability, fault-tolerance)\nKnowledge in CI/CD and DevOps practices with hands on experience creating / maintaining Pipelines as Code\nKnowledge in Containerization (Docker) and Orchestration (Kubernetes) concepts \nProficient in a UNIX/Linux environment and with Git and Git workflows\nExcellent communication skills (fluent in English, verbal and written) along with the confidence to take ownership of problem\nGenuine interest in working with cutting-edge technology in a fast-paced environment and a young start-up, never leaving continuous learning aside\nNice to have\nPrior exposure to life sciences domain (considered a big plus but not required)\nExperience with Testing Frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Pytest, Pact, REST Assured, Selenium, Cypress - 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