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 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.
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).
- 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.
- 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 tes

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