Overview

As a Senior SDET at Adaptive, you will shape the quality of our front-office trading platforms and open-source/proprietary products. You will work within a collaborative engineering culture to design and implement robust test strategies that scale with complex, low-latency systems. You drive quality through automation, exploring edge cases, and integrating tests into CI/CD to deliver reliable software.

This role offers the chance to influence testing best practices and partner with cross-functional teams to achieve high-impact pensaciones / Beneficios25 days vacation + 2 days volunteering

Pension plan

Private Health Insurance

Ticket restaurant

Wellbeing allowance

Language classesResponsabilidadesPropose and enhance test plans with an emphasis on test automation

Tackle challenging quality engineering problems across code, tests, and CI/CD pipelines

Curate and execute test cases; analyze results to drive improvements

Collaborate with QA, BAs, and development to maximize automated coverage

Improve test automation tools alongside Dev and Dev Ops teams

Educate the team on QA best practices and promote a value-add testing mindset

Build understanding of business, technical,



and operational requirements

Maintain CI/CD health and minimize false positivesRequisitos principalesStrong QA methodologies, shift-left practices, and full SDLC (TDD, BDD, Scrum, Kanban)

Proficient in Java with focus on automated testing, debugging, and root-cause analysis

Experience across unit to E2 E testing; exploratory testing for edge cases

BDT practices: story refinement, example mapping, acceptance criteria, 3 Amigos

Containerised test environments with Docker and Kubernetes

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and test integration; monitoring and telemetry

Performance profiling and identifying bottlenecks; observable systems

Familiar with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, Open Shift) and distributed pub/sub low-latency messaging

Knowledge of AI tooling in QA workflows; chaos testing for fault tolerance

Strong communication and stakeholder collaboration

Self-directed and independent prioritisation

Team collaboration and knowledge sharing

Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking

Java

Automated testing (unit, component, integration, system, E2 E)

TDD/BDD

📌 Senior software development engineer in test (sdet) (Barcelona)
🏢 Adaptive Financial Consulting
📍 Barcelona