Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

This job is with Adaptive Financial Consulting Ltd, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly. WE ARE: At Adaptive, we are 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. 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. YOU ARE:
* Self-directed, with the ability to define and manage priorities independently.
* A great team player who loves sharing knowledge and learning from others.
* A problem solver with strong analytical skills.
* Excited about learning new things and keeping up to date.
* 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).
* Mastery of 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. 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.
* Confidently leverage your experience in questioning and challenging existing practices while actively promoting QA best practices.
* 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.
* 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 our test automation tools and solutions. WHY US:
* To be immersed in high-standard engineering culture. 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 Adaptive😁) You can learn from anyone here, which is the beauty of it.
* To take part in the growth and development of a great company.
* Our teams feel free to speak up, make suggestions and raise concerns.
* Collaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other, and pitch in.
* Great consideration for work/life balance (highly-flexible, hybrid working model, well-being benefits…). The balance between professional and personal life is massively important to us.
* 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