Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Adaptive Financial Consulting1 day ago
Montréal, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Propose and enhance project test plans with a focus on test automation.
- Design, maintain, and execute test cases and analyze test results.
- Build automated tests across unit, component, integration, system, and end-to-end levels.
- Investigate root causes, complex edge cases, performance bottlenecks, memory issues, and defects.
- Integrate and maintain test execution and static code analysis tools in CI/CD pipelines.
- Improve CI/CD pipeline health by minimizing false positives and maintaining reliable feedback.
- Define quality metrics, telemetry, and reporting dashboards.
- Apply exploratory, chaos, performance, load, and reliability testing techniques.
- Collaborate with QA, business analysis, development, and DevOps teams to improve testing tools and solutions.
- Promote QA best practices and educate teams that quality is everyone's responsibility.
- Develop understanding of business, technical, and operational requirements and suggest process improvements.
Requirements
- Mastery of Java with experience in automated testing, debugging, and root cause analysis.
- Strong understanding of QA methodologies, shift-left practices, and the software development lifecycle.
- Experience translating feature specifications into test coverage and test plans.
- Experience with unit, component, integration, system, end-to-end, exploratory, performance, and load testing.
- Working knowledge of BDD practices, story refinement, example mapping, acceptance criteria, and 3 Amigos.
- Practical knowledge of application profiling, quality metrics, telemetry, and reporting dashboards.
- Hands-on exposure to chaos testing and distributed pub/sub low-latency messaging technologies.
- Experience integrating testing and static code analysis tools into CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience building containerized test environments with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring platforms and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and OpenShift.
- Knowledge of AI tooling applications within QA workflows.
- Financial services or trading domain experience is preferred.
- Strong communication, collaboration, analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- 23 days of vacation.
- Employer-paid 50% contribution toward group insurance including health, dental, life insurance, and short- or long-term disability coverage.
- Up to 5% annual salary pension plan contribution when the employee contributes the same amount.
- 50% reimbursement of a monthly public transportation pass.
- Personal Spending Account.
- Flexible hybrid working model.
- Well-being, diversity, and inclusion programs.
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About Adaptive Financial Consulting
Adaptive Financial Consulting designs and delivers custom, cloud-native trading platforms and front-office systems for capital, commodity, and digital asset markets. The privately held firm earns revenue through software engineering and consulting engagements, and offers accelerators such as Hydra for real-time trading while using technologies like Aeron for low-latency messaging. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, it supports clients globally from offices including New York, Barcelona, Montréal, and Manila.