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 general 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.
A problem solver with strong analytical skills.
Happy to work in a test-driven and Agile development fashion.
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.
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.
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.
Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and OpenShift.
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.
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.
You can learn from anyone here, which is the beauty of it.
Great 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.

📌 Senior Software Development Engineer in Test- SDET (m/w/d) (Barcelona)
🏢 Adaptive Financial Consulting
📍 Barcelona