Software Engineer, Testing

Job Description

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.

Cboe Global Markets operates a key office in the Overland Park Xchange (OPx), located in Overland Park, Kansas, a bustling suburb of Kansas City. The OPx business park is strategically positioned to provide convenient access to the Kansas City metropolitan area, offering modern infrastructure and a collaborative environment ideal for the financial services and technology industries. This location benefits from proximity to major highways, making it easily accessible for employees.

The OPx site provides a balance of high-quality office space, advanced facilities, and an environment conducive to productivity and growth.

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.

• Write automated tests and code to evaluate new functionality across our real-time trading systems
• Create system-wide integration tests bridging our real-time systems and batch frameworks and processes
• Design and execute automated testing for distributed data pipelines, including real-time and batch processing systems
• Validate event-driven architectures by testing message flows, ordering, latency, and data integrity within Kafka streams
• Test trading, billing, symbol, data platform, and reference data flowing through the trading system to ensure functionality and stability
• Work in Snowflake and Postgre
  
  SQL to audit and identify billing discrepancies, building automated test coverage for various billing scenarios
• Develop chaos engineering tests and disaster recovery scenarios for critical systems

• Develop and maintain our proprietary Python-based automated test frameworks
• Contribute to the design and evolution of our world-class, home-grown testing framework
• Develop Java-based automation tools (on select sub-projects) to process, search, and validate terabyte-scale market data files
• Improve deployment processes, stored procedures/API calls, scheduler configurations, and quality control procedures

• Collaborate directly with product owners and development teams to test and validate new features — identifying, reporting, and driving resolution on issues
• Partner with engineering and data teams to define scalable QA strategies for performance, resiliency, and correctness in high-volume trading environments
• Learn trading concepts and apply that knowledge to develop a wide variety of real-world test scenarios
• Maintain system-wide documentation, runbooks, process flows, and troubleshooting guides

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 2+ years of QA or Software Engineering experience with demonstrable, hands-on…