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. 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 integral 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.
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.
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📌 Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (Barcelona)
🏢 Adaptive Financial Consulting
📍 Barcelona