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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.\nWe are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test to join our team and help develop our open-source and proprietary platform products.\nYOU ARE: \nSelf-directed, with the ability to define and manage priorities independently.\nA great team player who loves sharing knowledge and learning from others.\nA problem solver with strong analytical skills and a JVM enthusiast.\nExcited about learning new things and keeping up to date.\nHappy to work in a test-driven and Agile development fashion.\nYOU HAVE: \nStrong understanding of QA methodologies, shift-left practices, and the full software development lifecycle (TDD, BDD, Scrum, Kanban).\nMastery of Java, with a focus on automated testing, root cause analysis, and debugging.\nComfortable implementing tests across the full test stack: unit, component, integration, system, and E2E.\nExperience in uncovering complex edge cases through exploratory testing.\nConfident in translating feature specifications into appropriate test coverage and test plans.\nWorking knowledge of BDD practices, including story refinement, example mapping, acceptance criteria definition, and 3 Amigos.\nComfortable using existing code and tests to understand system behaviour.\nPractical knowledge of application profiling to identify performance and memory bottlenecks.\nFamiliar with defining quality metrics, telemetry, and reporting dashboards.\nHands-on exposure to chaos testing to validate system fault tolerance and reliability.\nExperience in integrating test runs and static code analysis tools into CI/CD pipelines.\nWorking knowledge of maintaining CI/CD pipeline health, with a focus on minimising false positives and maintaining reliable feedback.\nBackground in building containerised test environments with Docker and Kubernetes.\nPractical familiarity with observability and monitoring platforms.\nUnderstanding of performance and load testing for distributed pub/sub low-latency messaging technologies.\nKnowledge of AI tooling applications within QA workflows to improve coverage, efficiency and defect detection.\nExposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and OpenShift.\nFinancial services or trading domain experience is a nice to have.\nStrong communication and collaboration skills, with confidence engaging internal and external stakeholders.\nYOU WILL: \nPropose and enhance project’s test plans with focus on test automation approach.\nWork on technically challenging quality engineering problems across code, tests, and CI/CD pipelines.\nConfidently leverage your experience in questioning and challenging existing practices while actively promoting QA best practices.\nEncourage 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.\nDesign, maintain and execute test cases and provide your analysis on the results.\nBuild a solid understanding on business, technical and operational requirements.\nFollow and suggest improvements to the quality assurance process.\nCollaborate with other QAs, BAs and DEV team to enhance automated tests and get maximum test coverage.\nWork with Dev and DevOps team to improve our test automation tools and solutions.\nWHY US: \nTo 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.\nTo take part in the growth and development of a great company.\nOur teams feel free to speak up, make suggestions and raise concerns.\nCollaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other, and pitch in\nGreat 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.\nWe 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.\nWHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF US:\nYou can check our Glassdoor page\nBENEFITS (What we offer in return // what you’ll get ):\nWe create benefits with YOU in mind. \nPermanent employees:\n25 days holiday\nPension scheme\nFamily medical and dental\nLife insurance and Long-term disability cover\nCycle scheme\nSeason ticket loan\nGym subsidy\nEmployee Assistance Programme\nMental Health First Aiders\nTHE HIRING PROCESS:\nLong interview processes are stressful and boring, and that is not us\nWe want to make sure that everything runs smoothly.\nSo here you will have three-stage interviews:\n1- A chat with one of our great recruiters.\n2- A zoom chat with one of our QA colleagues where they will ask you detailed questions about QA knowledge and your experience\n3- A Face to Face interview (either in our office or via Zoom). 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