Senior QA Manager

Job Description

• At Cboe, we inspire our people to solve complex challenges together because what we do matters. We provide
• the financial
• infrastructure that powers the global economy. As a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, Cboe delivers
• cutting-edge
• trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world.

We’re

• building inclusive ways to support professional and personal development while strengthening the trust
• we’ve
• earned as a global market leader. Our teams are empowered to share ideas, actively pursue
• them
• and bring on a challenge. As champions of internal mobility and access to opportunity, we encourage our people to “go for it” and equip our managers with the training to coach their teams to the next level. Our Associate Resource Groups champion diversity,
• equity
• and inclusion, giving employees a safe space to network, share ideas and create opportunities.

Sound

• like
• the
• place for you? Join us!

What We Do

• We design, develop, deploy, and support real-time systems. We care deeply about system reliability, testability, recoverability, fault tolerance, throughput, and latency. We measure times in microseconds, sometimes even nanoseconds. Our engineers have a strong understanding of computer science fundamentals and software engineering. We are analytical thinkers. We are always
• learning
• our
• craft . If
• it’s
• broken, we fix it. If it needs refactoring, we
• refactor
• it. If
• it’s
• hard to test, we make it testable. We like statistics. We love automation.
• We are pragmatic. We ship
• code
• weekly.

We’re

looking for like-minded individuals to join us.

To support strong partnership and team connection, this role follows a four day in office work model.

Summary

Cboe Europe is actively

seeking

a dedicated and highly motivated team-oriented person to fill the role of

Senior

QA Manager supporting our

European e
xchange platforms and their trading system functionality
.

As a manager of software

quality engineers

for this testing team,

you’ll

work with the development and business teams to prioritize, schedule, and staff projects to

execute on

our vision.

You’ll

be a hands-on technical leader and contribute to tools and automated tests
.

You’ll

help manage our CI/CD deployment pipeline and infrastructure as well as our status reporting and dashboards
.

This role is a critical

component

of our engineering and testing

process

providing enhancement of

Cboe’s

superior technology and ensuring industry leading performance.

Location

London, UK

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of software
• quality engineers
• who
• are responsible for
• the
• testing and deployment
• of the

Cboe

Europe

• high performance
• trading system, which
• operates
• on a shared code base with

Cboe

• ’s
• US equities and options markets.
• Translate testing requirements into automated regression tests for our Exchange platforms
• Review code, guide newer team members
• Contribute to new tool designs and testing techniques
• Apply modern AI techniques to QA activities within the Software Development Life Cycle
• Become familiar with our supported asset classes such as equities, options, futures, and indices
• Learn trading concepts and apply this knowledge to develop a wide variety of test scenarios

Requirements

Management Experience

Recent

management experience overseeing quality assurance teams

Demonstrable ability to hire top talent and grow quality assurance engineers

Three years of experience

planning, organizing, and leading test efforts or testing teams

AI and Automation

• Demonstrable experience with implementing an AI-centric SDLC in the QA space
• Practical experience with tools such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, or similar
• Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks –

LangChain

,

AutoGen

, or equivalents

A builder’s instinct: you see where AI can remove friction and you act on it

Core Engineering Skills

• More than five years of individual contributor QA experience, with recent and
• demonstrable experience coding and enhancing test frameworks and creating automated test cases
• Python development or scripting experience or a working knowledge of another scripting or programming language and a willingness to learn Python
• Strong experience in object-oriented design and programming techniques

Understanding of

database platforms such as

PostreSQL

(preferred).

A working

• knowledge of SQL is necessary.
• Experience with version control tools such as Git (preferred), Subversion, or other version control tools
• Experience working in a continuous integration environment and with tools such as Jenkins or Bamboo
• Experience with the Atlassian toolset is a plus

You'll

really stand out with:

Experience working in financial markets and knowledge of various order entry or market data protocols

Benefits and Perks
We value the total wellbeing of our people – including health, financial, personal and social wellness. We believe standard benefits like health insurance and fair pay are a given at any organization. Still, you should know we offer:
Fair and competitive salary and incentive compensation packages with an upside for overachievement
Comprehensive private medical insurance for employees and their families which includes dental cover (taxable benefit)
Cboe pays for employee access to a private GP service (face to face or phone call consultations) to make it easy and convenient for you to see a doctor
Life and long term illness insurance for stability and peace of mind
EAP - This service intends to help employees deal with personal problems that might adversely impact their work performance, health and well-being. This service includes short-term counselling and referral services for employees and their immediate family.
Enhanced paid parental and adoption leave to support parents
Cboe offers pensions contribution up to 7% of base salary. You don’t have to contribute yourself.
25 days holiday per year per holiday year for full time employees, increasing with length of service at a rate of one extra day per completed years’ service, up to a maximum of 30 days.
Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Employee referral bonus program
Complimentary lunch, snacks and drinks in any Cboe office
Paid tuition assistance and education opportunities
Generous charitable giving company match
Volunteer opportunities to help you give back to your communities
More About Cboe Europe
We’re reimagining the future of the workplace by focusing on what matters most, our people. Our journey is an inclusive one. We’re investing deeply in leadership programs and career development initiatives that ensure everyone has an equal chance to succeed. We celebrate the diversity in our communities, inside and out, and welcome new perspectives with equity, inclusion and belonging.
We work with purpose, solving problems with ingenuity, collaboration, and a lot of passion. We’re an engaged and excited team connecting markets across borders and embracing growth in all its forms to achieve incredible outcomes.
Learn more about life at Cboe on

our website

and

LinkedIn . Equal Employment Opportunity We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer - and celebrate our associates' differences, including race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age and disability.

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