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About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test to join our team and help develop our open-source and proprietary platform products.

Responsibilities

Propose and enhance project’s test plans with focus on test automation approach
Work on technically challenging quality engineering problems across code, tests, and CI/CD pipelines
Leverage experience in questioning and challenging existing practices while actively promoting QA best practices
Educate the team that quality is everyone's responsibility and focus time on value-add testing tasks, rather than routine checks
Design, maintain and execute test cases and provide analysis on the results
Build a solid understanding on business, technical and operational requirements
Follow and suggest improvements to the quality assurance process
Collaborate with other QAs, BAs and DEV team to enhance automated tests and get maximum test coverage
Work with Dev and DevOps team to improve test automation tools and solutions

Requirements

Strong understanding of QA methodologies, shift-left practices, and the full software development lifecycle (TDD, BDD, Scrum, Kanban)
Proficient in Java, with a focus on automated testing, root cause analysis, and debugging
Comfortable implementing tests across the full test stack: unit, component, integration, system, and E2E
Experience in uncovering complex edge cases through exploratory testing
Confident in translating feature specifications into appropriate test coverage and test plans
Working knowledge of BDD practices, including story refinement, example mapping, acceptance criteria definition, and 3 Amigos
Comfortable using existing code and tests to understand system behaviour
Practical knowledge of application profiling to identify performance and memory bottlenecks
Familiar with defining quality metrics, telemetry, and reporting dashboards
Hands-on exposure to chaos testing to validate system fault tolerance and reliability
Experienced in integrating test runs and static code analysis tools into CI/CD pipelines
Working knowledge of maintaining CI/CD pipeline health, with a focus on minimising false positives and maintaining reliable feedback
Background in building containerised test environments with Docker and Kubernetes
Practical familiarity with observability and monitoring platforms
Understanding of performance and load testing for distributed pub/sub low-latency messaging technologies
Knowledge of AI tooling applications within QA workflows to improve coverage, efficiency and defect detection
Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and OpenShift
Financial services or trading domain experience is a nice to have
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with confidence engaging internal and external stakeholders

Skills

Java
Automated testing
Root cause analysis
Debugging
Unit testing
Component testing
Integration testing
System testing
E2E testing
Exploratory testing
BDD practices
Story refinement
Example mapping
Acceptance criteria definition
3 Amigos
Application profiling
Quality metrics
Telemetry
Reporting dashboards
Chaos testing
CI/CD pipelines
Docker
Kubernetes
Observability
Monitoring platforms
Performance testing
Load testing
Pub/sub messaging
Low-latency messaging
AI tooling
AWS
GCP
Azure
OpenShift
Communication skills
Collaboration skills

Location

London
New York
Barcelona
Montreal

Work Type

Hybrid working model

Experience Level

Senior

Benefits

25 days holiday
Pension scheme
Family medical and dental
Life insurance
Long-term disability cover
Cycle scheme
Season ticket loan
Gym subsidy
Employee Assistance Programme
Mental Health First Aiders

About the Company

Adaptive is a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants.
We value differentiation through technology.
Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.
Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintech and capital market service providers.
With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Barcelona and Montreal, we have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.

Equal Opportunity

Diversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it’s more representative of the world around us.
We want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work without any fear of judgment or negativity.
All we ask is that our colleagues are respectful, collaborative, passionate about what they do, and have the skills needed to be successful in their roles