Adaptive Financial Consulting
Senior QA Lead (Contract: Outside IR35) – FINTECH / LONDON

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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 QA Lead services on an exciting project!
THE INDIVIDUAL/S PROVIDING THE SERVICES WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING EXPERIENCE:
- Significant experience in a QA lead role
- The ability to derive test cases from functional/technical designs
- Experience with TDD/BDD and Test Automation
- Knowledge of Agile SDLC and an understanding of the QA role within it
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, comfortable engaging with internal and external stakeholders
DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICES:
- Propose, create, and enhance the project's test strategy, considering the test automation approach
- Question and challenge existing practices while actively promoting QA best practices
- Support a culture where quality is everyone's responsibility, by educating the team and focusing on value-add testing tasks rather than routine checks
- Approach complex challenges with a positive mindset, fostering collaboration with the team and the client, while providing solutions to these challenges and taking active part in them
- Contribute to the definition and enhancement of the quality assurance process based on project needs
- Provide support and guidance to the team on QA-related activities
- Build a solid understanding of the business, technical, and operational requirements
- Design, maintain, and execute test cases, and provide critical analysis of the results
- Collaborate with the Dev team to enhance automated tests and maximize test coverage
- Work with Dev and DevOps teams to improve test automation tools and solutions
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WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF US 🗣
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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.
- A Zoom chat with one of our QA colleagues where they will ask you detailed questions about QA knowledge and your experience.
- 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 anyone providing services here is respectful, collaborative, passionate about what they do, and has the skills needed to be successful in their role.
Background check: The engagement is subject to an acceptable background check that will be run by Adaptive on any individual/s providing the services.
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