WE ARE: At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. 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.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.Happy to work in a test-driven and Agile development fashion.YOU HAVE: 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.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.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.YOU WILL: 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.Encourage a mindset/culture by educating your team that quality is everyone's responsibility and focusing your time on value-add testing tasks, rather than routine checks.Design, maintain and execute test cases and provide your analysis on the results.Follow and suggest improvements to the quality assurance process.Work with Dev and DevOps team to improve our test automation tools and solutions.Our fantastic team takes pride in crafting complex technical solutions but also loves sharing their knowledge and helping you grow professionally (we have extraordinary minds at Adaptiveð) You can learn from anyone here, which is the beauty of it.Collaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other, and pitch inGreat consideration for work/life balance (highly-flexible, hybrid working model, well-being benefits…). We work hard to provide a positive, collaborative and inclusive culture and to positively impact our staff and local communities through different well-being, diversity and inclusion programmes.ð Permanent employees:25 days holidayPension schemeFamily medical and dentalLife insurance and Long-term disability coverCycle schemeSeason ticket loanGym subsidyEmployee Assistance ProgrammeMental Health First AidersTHE HIRING PROCESS:1- A chat with one of our great recruiters.2- A zoom chat with one of our QA colleagues where they will ask you detailed questions about QA knowledge and your experience3- A Face to Face interview (either in our office or via Zoom). Here is a little tip for you during those stages: Collaboration is massively important to us, so don't hesitate to share your thoughts, ask questions, ask for help if needed, etc ð DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: ðDiversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it’s more representative of the world around us.
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test Job in London employer: Adaptive Financial Consulting
At Adaptive, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and inclusive work culture in the heart of London. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through mentorship opportunities and a focus on innovation, allowing you to work on groundbreaking projects alongside industry-leading experts. With a strong emphasis on work/life balance and a comprehensive benefits package, including flexible working arrangements and well-being initiatives, we ensure that our team members thrive both professionally and personally.
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