Software Engineer – QA

Job Description

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.

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

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.

We develop, automate and support continuously running tests for our real‑time systems. We’re looking for hard‑core Python programmers who enjoy developing testing tools and automated tests. If you’ve built testing frameworks from scratch, we want to talk to you! 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.

In addition, as a senior member of the Cboe QA team, you’ll bring your industry experience in QA/testing to help us modernize our QA automation. Specifically, we’re looking for someone who has direct industry experience with modern AI tools and techniques and can help us develop and enhance our QA processes within an AI‑centric software development lifecycle.

• Estimate, plan, and lead testing efforts
• 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

• 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 — Lang Chain, Auto Gen, or equivalents
• A builder's instinct: you see where AI can remove friction and you act on it

• Three to five years of QA experience, with recent and demonstrable experience coding and enhancing test frameworks and creating automated test cases
• One to three years of experience planning, organizing, and leading test efforts or testing teams
• Strong Python programming chops
• Solid Linux skills

• Databases:
  PostgreSQL (preferred), MySQL or Oracle; working SQL proficiency required
• Atlassian toolset (Jira, Confluence)
• Experience with Git‑based version control
• CI/CD tooling experience, including Jenkins
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field — or equivalent experience

• Experience in financial markets with working knowledge of order entry or market data protocols

• Fair and competitive…