Senior QA Automation Test Engineer

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.

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

Location Overview

Cboe HQ is located in the historic Old Post Office district, it’s a landmark that blends classic architecture with modern amenities. The building features expansive spaces with high ceilings and large windows, offering an abundance of natural light and panoramic views of the city skyline and the Chicago River.

With its prime location in the heart of downtown, the OPO Building provides easy access to major transportation hubs, including Union Station and multiple CTA lines, making it convenient for commuters. The building is home to a variety of amenities, including restaurants, a fitness center, and collaborative workspaces, creating a vibrant and dynamic work environment in one of Chicago's most iconic areas.

Role Overview

Cboe Clear U.S. (CCUS) is a regulated clearinghouse. We clear the event contracts and prediction markets listed on Cboe's exchanges, and we are building toward tokenized collateral, 24x7 operation, and the infrastructure that carries traditional finance onto DeFi rails.

CCUS Software Engineering is a high trust environment. Failure leads to inquiry rather than blame. Working across team boundaries is expected rather than tolerated. We solve the problem, then we write the code. Design documents and architecture decision records come first. The engineers we value most close their feedback loop. They write tests, and they instrument what they ship so it fails fast, explains itself in production, leaves an audit trail and rolls back cleanly.

The Senior QA Automation Test Engineer sets the strategy for proving the platform works. The difference from our QA Automation Test Engineer is scope. That role builds coverage for a team, while you architect the frameworks other engineers build on and own test strategy across the platform.

Your responsibilities will be:

Helping set quality standards and review practices that are held consistently across teams.

Mentoring engineers and raising the standard of practice around you.

Defining what release confidence means here, including coverage expectations and escaped defect targets.

Setting the test data and environment strategy, so clearing scenarios stay reproducible as the platform grows.

Influencing how engineering builds for testability, before code is written.

Designing and building automated test frameworks across UI, API and integration layers.

Validating end-to-end clearing workflows including trade processing, margin, settlement and reconciliation.

Ensuring data accuracy and consistency across distributed systems.

Embedding automated testing into delivery pipelines so failures surface early and loudly.

Owning test coverage as a measurable outcome and driving escaped defects down over time.

Building and maintaining the test data and test environments that make clearing scenarios reproducible.

Partnering with engineering teams to define testable solutions before code is written.

Documenting test strategy and coverage decisions so they outlast any one release.

Required:

Proven leadership and mentorship of junior engineers

Driving QA across the full application lifecycle, from test strategies, test plans and test cases through smoke, regression, functional, and integration testing

Understanding of relational databases, and comfortable writing queries to validate data across systems

Solid grounding in object-oriented and functional programming, software engineering principles, design patterns and data modeling fundamentals

A strong analytical mindset, and comfort working across teams in a fast-paced environment

Hands-on automated testing with Cucumber, Selenium or Playwright

Strong command of Java, with the depth to architect, build, and extend test frameworks for other engineers

API testing across REST, using RestAssured, Postman or an equivalent

Preferred:

AI-powered testing tools, including test generation and self-healing frameworks

The FIX messaging protocol

Kafka or another event streaming platform

Clearing, trading or other financial systems

Managing a testing team or planning testing activities for a team

Nice to have:

Python as a second test-authoring language

Working knowledge of Docker, Podman or similar container runtimes

Exposure to AWS or similar Cloud Platform

Test data and environment management at scale, including adapting test flows as live data changes

Executing performance, resiliency and failover testing, including business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) scenarios

Current technology stack:

Java on Kubernetes. Application code and CI pipelines live in GitHub with GitHub Actions. Container images and build artifacts live in registries such as Harbor and Artifactory, and Helm charts are deployed by ArgoCD from a GitOps repository. PostgreSQL, Kafka and Linux. This is representative rather than exhaustive. On the quality side we work in Cucumber, RestAssured, and Selenium or Playwright, against PostgreSQL with the Atlassian suite for tracking.

You do not need experience with every technology in our environment. We hire for competencies over pedigree, so if you have built similar systems and learn quickly, we encourage you to apply.

Minimum Work Experience: 7+ years in quality assurance with a strong automation focus

Minimum Education: Bachelor's in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits and Perks of working for Cboe Global Markets

We value the total wellbeing of our people – including health, financial, personal and social wellness. We believe standard benefits like health insurance and fair pay are a given at any organization. Still, you should know we offer:

• •Fair and competitive salary and incentive compensation packages with an upside for overachievement
• •Generous paid time off, including vacation, personal days, sick days and annual community service days
• •Flexible, hybrid work environment
• •Health, dental and vision benefits, including access to telemedicine and mental health services 2:1 401(k) match, up to 8% match immediately upon hire
• •Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• •Tax Savings Accounts for health, dependent and transportation
• •Employee referral bonus program
• •Volunteer opportunities to help you give back to your communities

Some of our associates’ favorite benefits and perks include:

• •Complimentary lunch, snacks and coffee in any Cboe office
• •Paid tuition assistance and education opportunities
• •Generous charitable giving company match
• •Paid parental leave and fertility benefits
• •On-site gyms and discounts to other fitness centers

More About Cboe Global Markets

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