Senior QA Manager in London

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.

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.

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.

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

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of software quality engineers who are responsible for the testing and deployment of the Cboe Europe high performance trading system.
• Translate testing requirements into automated regression tests for our 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 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:

• 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.
• 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) and a working knowledge of SQL.
• 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.

Benefits and Perks:

• Fair and competitive salary and incentive compensation packages.
• Comprehensive private medical insurance for employees and their families.
• Cboe pays for employee access to a private GP service.
• Life and long term illness insurance.
• EAP - This service intends to help employees deal with personal problems that might adversely impact their work performance, health and well-being.
• Enhanced paid parental and adoption leave.
• Cboe offers pensions contribution up to 7% of base salary.
• 25 days holiday per year for full time employees, increasing with length of service.
• 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.

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'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.