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Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid
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.
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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 exchange 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:
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.
Any communication from Cboe regarding this position will only come from a Cboe recruiter who has a @cboe.com email or via LinkedIn Recruiter. Cboe does not use any other third party communication tools for recruiting purposes.
