Cboe Global Markets
Lead Engineer, Quality Assurance
New York, New York, United States of America
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About the role
- BIDS Trading is an institutional network and broker/dealer that provides software to help asset managers trade large blocks of liquidity.
- You will work alongside developers, product managers and business stakeholders in New York and Calgary to raise test coverage, sharpen our automation and give the team confidence to release quickly.
- This is a hands-on individual contributor role on a team that is measured on the reliability of systems our clients trade through every day.
Responsibilities
- Validate FIX connectivity and client onboarding flows, testing order entry, execution reports and drop-copy behavior against client and venue specifications.
- Investigate defects through to root cause, with clear reproduction steps, and partner with developers on the fix and its verification.
- Building trusted markets - powered by our people.
- Engineer, Quality Assurance, you will own quality across the full BIDS platform:
Requirements
- Five to 10 years of experience in software quality assurance or test engineering, with a track record on complex, transactional or real-time systems.
- Experience owning test strategy and test plans across functional, regression and integration testing in an Agile delivery environment.
- Experience with source control and continuous integration tooling such as Git, TeamCity and Jira.
- Excellent analytical skills, close attention to detail, and the ability to communicate effectively and work collaboratively within a cross-functional team.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with automation tooling - for example Selenium or Playwright for UI, JUnit or TestNG as a test framework, Cucumber for behavior-driven scenarios, and REST Assured or Postman for API testing.
- Exposure to Java, sufficient to read application code, write test code and debug failures alongside developers.
- Comfort on the Linux command line, with some shell or Bash scripting to automate test setup, log analysis and routine tasks.
- Background in financial markets, particularly equities trading, execution or order management systems, or familiarity with the FIX protocol.
- Exposure to testing trading systems, matching engines or other latency-sensitive platforms.
- Familiarity with Docker containers and applications running in AWS.
- Cboe Global Markets encourages innovation, collaboration and professional growth.
- 401(k) with a generous company match
Compensation
- We offer a competitive salary, a comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities to build a career within a globally recognized financial institution.
Benefits
- Build test harnesses, test data and environment tooling that widen coverage and shorten feedback loops for the whole team.
Company info
- We are champions of internal mobility and access to opportunity: we encourage our people to go for it, and we equip our managers to coach their teams to the next level.
- Salary Ranges (applicable for US locations only) At Cboe, we are committed to providing a competitive, transparent, and market‑informed total rewards program.
Equal opportunity
- Cboe is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we celebrate the differences among our associates, including race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age and disability.
- Any communication from Cboe regarding this position will only come from a Cboe recruiter with a @cboe.com email address or via LinkedIn Recruiter.
- Cboe does not use any other third-party communication tools for recruiting purposes.
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Visa & Work Authorization
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
This listing is sourced directly from Cboe Global Markets's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.