Senior Software Engineer, Test; hybrid in Chicago, Kansas or NYC

Building trusted markets — powered by our people

At Cboe Global Markets, 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 meaningful 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.

We strive to provide employees a safe space to network, share ideas and create opportunities.

Please note:

Candidates must be willing to work a flex hybrid schedule in our Chicago, IL - Overland Park, KS - or New York city office.

The Sr. Software Engineer, Test at Cboe will develop, automate and support continuously running tests for our Cboe websites, web‑based operational tooling, and client portal applications. Our team combines the best practices of Dev Ops and QA to enable frequent and fast delivery of high‑quality software. We care deeply about system reliability, testability, recoverability, and fault tolerance.

Our QA engineers have a strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, programming, and software engineering. We are analytical thinkers. We are always developing and improving 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 love automation. We ship code weekly. We’re looking for like‑minded individuals to join us.

As a senior member of the Cboe QA development team, you’ll plan and lead testing efforts, review code, and contribute to new tools and testing techniques. You’ll contribute to the design and development of our world‑class, home‑grown, testing framework. You’ll also work alongside our team of developers contributing tests for our Exchange Platforms. Become familiar with our supported asset classes such as equities, options, and futures.

Learn trading concepts and apply this knowledge to develop a wide variety of test scenarios.

• Work with our production web applications, write test plans and automate code/tests to evaluate and analyze new functionality.
• Develop and improve our proprietary automated test frameworks.
• Drive testing efforts from start to completion in collaboration with the team.
• Work directly with our product owners and other development teams to test and validate new features.
• Identify, report, and drive resolution of bugs in a timely manner.
• Participate in code reviews and design discussions.
• Support and mentor junior engineers in the QA team.

• 5+ years hands‑on experience with web testing technologies such as Playwright and Selenium.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related discipline required.
• Experience testing data‑driven websites.
• Comfortable with working in a Linux/Unix terminal.
• Development or QA experience with recent and demonstrable experience creating automated test cases and working with test frameworks. Experience with continuous integration systems is a plus.
• Strong experience in object‑oriented design and programming techniques. The preference is someone with Python development experience or working knowledge of other programming languages.

• Experience in the financial markets.
• Experience with the complete software development life cycle and QA processes.
• Experience in waterfall and agile environments.
• Experience with MVC web frameworks (Django preferred).
• Experience with JavaScript, React, Node.js.
• Familiarity with modern web standards, including HTML5 and CSS
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