Senior SDET - QA Automation & Quality Advocate (Hybrid)

Adaptive Financial Consulting; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

25 days vacation

Job summary

Adaptive Financial Consulting seeks a QA/Automation Engineer to design and implement robust test strategies across the full stack. You will drive automation efforts, tackle complex testing challenges, and promote QA best practices while collaborating with Dev, DevOps, and QA teams to raise test coverage and reliability.

The role emphasizes TDD/BDD, fault-tolerance testing, and performance profiling in a hybrid Barcelona-based environment.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, shift-left practices, and the full software development lifecycle (TDD, BDD, Scrum, Kanban).
• Proficient in 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 reporting dashboards.
• Hands-on exposure to chaos testing to validate system fault tolerance and reliability.
• Experienced in integrating test runs and static code analysis tools into CI/CD pipelines.
• Working knowledge of maintaining CI/CD pipeline health, with a focus on minimising false positives and maintaining reliable feedback.
• Background in building containerised test environments with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Practical familiarity with observability and monitoring platforms.
• Understanding of performance and load testing for distributed pub/sub low-latency messaging technologies.
• Knowledge of AI tooling applications within QA workflows to improve coverage, efficiency and defect detection.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and OpenShift.
• Financial services or trading domain experience is a nice to have.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with confidence engaging internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Propose and enhance project's test plans with focus on test automation approach.
• Work on technically challenging quality engineering problems across code, tests, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Confidently leverage your experience in questioning and challenging existing practices while actively promoting QA best practices.
• Encourage a mindset/culture by educating your team that quality is everyone's responsibility and focusing your time on value-add testing tasks, rather than routine checks.
• Design, maintain and execute test cases and provide your analysis on the results.
• Build a solid understanding on business, technical and operational requirements.
• Follow and suggest improvements to the quality assurance process.
• Collaborate with other QAs, BAs 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.

Skills

QA methodologies

Java automation

BDD practices

CI/CD pipelines

Exploratory testing

Edge case testing

Test planning

System debugging

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Observability tools

Job description

Adaptive Financial Consulting seeks a QA/Automation Engineer to design and implement robust test strategies across the full stack. You will drive automation efforts, tackle complex testing challenges, and promote QA best practices while collaborating with Dev, DevOps, and QA teams to raise test coverage and reliability.

The role emphasizes TDD/BDD, fault-tolerance testing, and performance profiling in a hybrid Barcelona-based environment.