Adaptive
QA SPECIALIST - LONDON - FINTECH

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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, Manila and Montreal, we have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.
We are now looking for a Senior QA Specialist to join our team.
YOU ARE:
- 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:
- Significant experience in a QA role
- The ability to derive test cases from functional/technical designs
- Experience with TDD/BDD and Test Automation
- Knowledge of Agile SDLC and understand the QA role in it
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, feeling comfortable communicating with internal and external stakeholders
YOU WILL:
- Propose, create and enhance project’s test strategy considering test automation approach
- Design, maintain and execute test cases and provide your analysis on the results
- Build a solid understanding on business, technical and operational requirements
- Work with the team to define the quality assurance process
- Collaborate with other QAs and DEV team to enhance automated tests and get maximum test coverage
- Work with Dev and DevOps team to improve our test automation tools and solutions
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WHY US:
- To be immersed in high-standard engineering culture. Our fantastic team takes pride in crafting complex technical solutions but also loves sharing their knowledge and helping you grow professionally (we have extraordinary minds at Adaptive 😁). You can learn from anyone here, which is the beauty of it
- To take part in the growth and development of a great company
- Our teams feel free to speak up, make suggestions and raise concerns.
- Collaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other, and pitch in
- Great consideration for work/life balance (highly-flexible, hybrid working model, well-being benefits…). The balance between professional and personal life is massively important to us.
- We work hard to provide a positive, collaborative and inclusive culture and to positively impact our staff and local communities through different well-being, diversity and inclusion programmes.
What Do People Think Of Us 🗣
You can check our Glassdoor page 🎉
BENEFITS (What we offer in return // what you’ll get ):
We create benefits with YOU in mind.💜
- 25 days holiday
- Family medical and family dental cover
- Long term disability cover
- Life insurance at 4 x salary
- A pension scheme where we match your contributions up to 5% of your base salary (can join sooner if they wish though)
- Interest-free season ticket loan of up to £5K per annum
- Gym subsidy
- Cycle scheme
- Highly flexible hybrid working model


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THE PROCESS
Long interview processes are stressful and boring, and that is not us 😉
We want to make sure that everything runs smoothly.
So here you will have three stage interviews:
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A chat with one of our great recruiters.
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A Zoom chat with one of our QA colleagues where they will ask you detailed questions about QA knowledge and your experience
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A Face to Face interview (either in our office or via Zoom). During this interview, we will dig even deeper, and you will have a technical task to do.
But don’t worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by your recruiter.
Here is a little tip for you during those stages:
Collaboration is massively important to us, so don't hesitate to share your thoughts, ask questions, ask for help if needed, etc 😊
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: 💜
Diversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it’s more representative of the world around us. We want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work without any fear of judgment or negativity.
All we ask is that our colleagues are respectful, collaborative, passionate about what they do, and have the skills needed to be successful in their roles
Background check: the employment/engagement is subject to an acceptable background check that will be run by Adaptive
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