Senior QA Manager

At Cboe, we inspire our people to solve complex challenges together because what we do matters. We providethe financialinfrastructure that powers the global economy. As a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, Cboe deliverscutting-edgetrading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world.

We’rebuilding inclusive ways to support professional and personal development while strengthening the trustwe’veearned as a global market leader. Our teams are empowered to share ideas, actively pursuethemand 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,equityand 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 alwayslearningourcraft. Ifit’sbroken, we fix it. If it needs refactoring, werefactorit. Ifit’shard to test, we make it testable. We like statistics. We love automation.We are pragmatic. We shipcodeweekly. We’relooking 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 activelyseekinga dedicated and highly motivated team-oriented person to fill the role ofSeniorQA Manager supporting ourEuropean exchange platforms and their trading system functionality. As a manager of softwarequality engineersfor this testing team,you’llwork with the development and business teams to prioritize, schedule, and staff projects toexecute onour vision.You’llbe a hands-on technical leader and contribute to tools and automated tests. You’llhelp manage our CI/CD deployment pipeline and infrastructure as well as our status reporting and dashboards. This role is a criticalcomponentof our engineering and testingprocessproviding enhancement ofCboe’ssuperior technology and ensuring industry leading performance.

Location:London, UK

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of softwarequality engineerswhoare responsible forthetesting and deploymentof theCboeEuropehigh performancetrading system, whichoperateson a shared code base withCboe’sUS 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:

• Recentmanagement experience overseeing quality assurance teams

• Demonstrable ability to hire top talent and grow quality assurance engineers

• Three years of experienceplanning, 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 anddemonstrable 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 ofdatabase platforms such asPostreSQL(preferred).A workingknowledge 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'llreally 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 onour websiteandLinkedIn.

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.