QA LEAD - LONDON - FINTECH

Adaptive; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Family medical and family dental cover

long term disability cover

life insurance at 4 x salary

Pension scheme with 5% employer match

Season ticket loan up to £5K

Job summary

Adaptive is seeking a QA Lead to drive testing strategy and quality across a high-impact financial technology project in London. You will mentor the QA team, derive test cases from designs, and champion a test-driven, Agile approach.

You will collaborate with development and DevOps to enhance automation, ensure comprehensive test coverage, and promote QA best practices across the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading QA teams.
• Ability to derive test cases from designs.
• Experience with TDD/BDD and test automation.
• Knowledge of Agile SDLC and QA role within it.
• Strong communication and collaboration with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Propose and enhance the project's test strategy, including automation.
• Promote QA best practices and quality culture.
• Guide the team to focus on value-add testing tasks.
• Collaborate with developers and DevOps to improve automation tools.
• Design, maintain and execute test cases and analyze results.
• Provide mentorship and QA support to the team.

Skills

QA lead

Test automation

TDD/BDD

Agile SDLC

Communication

Job description

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 , Montreal and Manila. We have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions. We are now looking for a QA Lead to join our team to work on a high-impact financial technology project where quality really matters.

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 lead 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
• 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
• Approach complex challenges with a positive mindset, fostering collaboration with the team and the client
• Define and enhance the quality assurance process based on the project needsProvide support and offer guidance to the team in QA related activities
• Build a solid understanding on business, technical and operational requirements
• Design, maintain and execute test cases and provide your analysis on the results
• Collaborate with 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

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. 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

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:

1- A chat with one of our great recruiters.

2- A zoom chat with one of our QA colleagues where they will ask you detailed questions about QA knowledge and your experience

3- 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