QA LEAD - NYC - Fintech - up to $180K depending on experience + Benefits

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 and Montreal, 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 for a very exciting project!

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 needs
• Provide 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 (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.💜 

• Medical
• Dental and vision 
• 23 days of vacation per calendar year plus 11 public holidays
• Group disability insurance: short-term and long-term 
• 401K safe harbor plan where we match contributions up to 5% of base pay on a paycheck-to-paycheck basis 
• Gym subsidy 
• Life insurance at 2 x salary
• Commuter benefits
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account

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 recruiter