Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at Adaptive Financial Consulting Ltd
Adaptive Financial Consulting Ltd · London
- Occupation group: Software & IT
- Licensed sponsor: Adaptive Financial Consulting Ltd
Employer on register 23 October 2026
From the advert
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 global 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.
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 and a JVM enthusiast.
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).
Mastery of 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…
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Summary
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at Adaptive Financial Consulting Ltd in London. Adaptive Financial Consulting Ltd is listed on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors (23 October 2026). Read the full job advert and apply on the employer's or job board's site. A sponsor licence means the employer is on the Home Office register. It does not mean this role is sponsored. Check with the employer. This is not immigration advice.
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