Teams at Adaptive (weareadaptive.com)

Lead complex fintech software delivery projects for clients, coordinating distributed engineering, QA, BA, SRE, product, consulting, and client teams. Own integrated plans, backlogs, dependencies, risks, releases, governance, budgets, resourcing, and stakeholder communications. Drive Agile delivery, testing, operational readiness, continuous improvement, team development, client commitments, and commercial forecasting.

Design, develop, debug, and operate Java-based distributed systems using replicated state machines. Evolve messaging protocols and software libraries, improve correctness and performance through testing, benchmarking, measurement, and profiling, and contribute to architecture and product decisions. The role also involves code reviews, technical collaboration, stakeholder communication, and knowledge sharing. Experience with low-latency systems, financial protocols, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, or build automation is beneficial.

Develop and enhance automated testing strategies across unit, component, integration, system, and end-to-end levels. Design test plans, investigate defects, perform exploratory and performance testing, and improve CI/CD pipeline reliability. Collaborate with QA, development, DevOps, and business teams to expand coverage, improve quality practices, and validate distributed systems. Build containerized test environments, use observability and chaos testing, and promote a culture of shared quality ownership.