About the Role
Cboe Europe is seeking a Senior QA Manager to support European exchange platforms and their trading system functionality. This role involves managing software quality engineers, collaborating with development and business teams, and contributing to tools and automated tests. You will also help manage the CI/CD deployment pipeline and infrastructure, as well as status reporting and dashboards, playing a critical part in enhancing Cboe's technology and ensuring industry-leading performance.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of software quality engineers responsible for testing and deploying the Cboe Europe high-performance trading system.
- Translate testing requirements into automated regression tests for Exchange platforms.
- Review code and 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 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
- 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.
- 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.
- More than five years of individual contributor QA experience.
- 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.
- Experience working in financial markets and knowledge of various order entry or market data protocols.
Skills
- AI-centric SDLC implementation
- Claude Code
- OpenAI Codex
- LangChain
- AutoGen
- Python development
- Scripting
- Object-oriented design
- Object-oriented programming
- SQL
- Git
- Subversion
- Jenkins
- Bamboo
- Atlassian toolset
- Financial markets
- Order entry protocols
- Market data protocols
Location
- London, UK
Work Type
- Four day in office work model
Experience Level
- Senior
- Three years of experience planning, organizing, and leading test efforts or testing teams
- More than five years of individual contributor QA experience
Salary/Compensations
- Fair and competitive salary and incentive compensation packages with an upside for overachievement
Benefits
- Comprehensive private medical insurance for employees and their families which includes dental cover
- Access to a private GP service (face to face or phone call consultations)
- Life and long term illness insurance
- EAP - Employee Assistance Program including short-term counselling and referral services for employees and their immediate family
- Enhanced paid parental and adoption leave
- Pensions contribution up to 7% of base salary
- 25 days holiday per year, increasing with length of 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
About the Company
- Cboe provides the financial infrastructure that powers the global economy.
- Cboe is a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, delivering cutting-edge trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world.
- Cboe is reimagining the future of the workplace by focusing on what matters most, our people.
- Cboe invests deeply in leadership programs and career development initiatives that ensure everyone has an equal chance to succeed.
- Cboe celebrates the diversity in its communities, inside and out, and welcomes new perspectives with equity, inclusion and belonging.
- Cboe works with purpose, solving problems with ingenuity, collaboration, and a lot of passion.
- Cboe is an engaged and excited team connecting markets across borders and embracing growth in all its forms to achieve incredible outcomes.
Equal Opportunity
- Cboe is proud to be an equal opportunity employer - and celebrates its 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.
