Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Overview

In this role you will strengthen a high‑caliber QA culture within Adaptive’s trading technology platform. You will drive test strategy across the full stack, partnering with cross‑functional teams to deliver reliable, scalable software. You will tackle complex edge cases, optimize testing coverage, and promote QA best practices. This is a chance to shape quality in cutting‑edge market tech and contribute to a collaborative, inclusive engineering culture.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days holiday
• Pension scheme
• Family medical and dental
• Life insurance and long-term disability
• Cycle scheme
• Season ticket loan (transport)

Responsibilities

• Propose and refine test plans with an emphasis on test automation
• Tackle challenging quality engineering problems across code, tests, and CI/CD
• Promote QA best practices and instill a quality mindset across the team
• Design, maintain and execute test cases; analyze results
• Develop understanding of business/technical requirements; contribute to process improvements
• Collaborate with QAs, BAs and developers to enhance automated tests and coverage
• Work with Dev and DevOps to improve test automation tools and solutions

Key requirements

• Strong QA methodologies and full SDLC (TDD, BDD, Scrum, Kanban)
• Proficiency in Java with focus on automated testing, debugging, root cause analysis
• Experience testing across unit to E2E levels
• Exploratory testing to uncover complex edge cases
• Ability to translate feature specs into test coverage and plans
• Knowledge of BDD practices (story refinement, example mapping, acceptance criteria, 3 Amigos)
• Familiarity with CI/CD and static code analysis integration
• Containerised test environments with Docker and Kubernetes
• Observability/monitoring familiarity; performance/memory profiling
• Cloud platforms knowledge (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenShift)
• Exposure to chaos testing and distributed pub/sub low‑latency messaging
• Strong written and verbal communication; stakeholder engagement
• Strong communication and collaboration
• Self-directed and proactive problem solving
• Team player who enjoys knowledge sharing
• Java
• Automated testing (unit, component, integration, system, E2E)
• TDD/BDD; example mapping; 3 Amigos

Report this job