Quality Assurance Manager, Cboe Clear US

Job Description:

Building trusted markets — powered by our people.

At Cboe, 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 inclusive 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. Our Associate Resource Groups champion diversity, equity and inclusion, giving employees a safe space to network, share ideas and create opportunities.

Location Overview 

Cboe HQ is located in the historic Old Post Office district in Chicago, 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.

What We Do
 

We design, develop, deploy, and support global clearing systems. We care deeply about system reliability, testability, recoverability, fault tolerance, throughput, and latency. Our engineers have a strong understanding of computer science fundamentals and software engineering. We are analytical thinkers. We are always learning 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 like statistics. We love automation. We are pragmatic. We’re looking for like-minded individuals to join us.

In this role, you'll be responsible for:

Cboe Clearing US is actively seeking a dedicated and highly motivated team-oriented person to fill the role of QA Manager supporting our Clearing platform and their system functionality.  As a manager of software engineering for this testing team, you’ll work with the development and business teams to prioritize, schedule, and staff projects to execute on our vision. You’ll be a hands-on technical leader and contribute to tools and automated tests.  You’ll help manage our CI/CD deployment pipeline and infrastructure as well as our status reporting and dashboards.  This role is a critical component of our engineering and automated testing process providing enhancement of Cboe’s superior technology and ensuring industry leading performance. 

Ideal Candidate Has:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or other related field or equivalent experience.
• At least 7 years of QA experience is required, with recent and demonstrable experience creating automated test cases, and coding and enhancing test frameworks.
• Experience with Cucumber BDD framework.
• Experience with Selenium or other UI automation tools.
• Python development or scripting experience or a working knowledge of another scripting or programming language and a willingness to learn Python. 
• Strong experience in object-oriented design and programming techniques.
• Understanding database platforms such as: PostgreSQL (preferred), MySQL, or Oracle, and document DB like MongoDB. A working knowledge of SQL is necessary.
• Experience with Unix/Linux hardware/software engineering environments and applicable Unix/shell scripting.
• Experience with version control tools such as Git (preferred), Subversion, or other version control tools. 
• Experience working in a continuous integration environment and with tools such as Jenkins or Bamboo.
• Experience with the Atlassian tool set is a plus.

The successful candidate will have excellent analytical skills, an exacting attention to detail, and an ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively within a cross-functional team environment. 

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