Qualifications
Responsibilities
Benefits
To support strong partnership and team connection, this role follows a four day in office work model.
Location Overview
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.
Role Overview
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 DevOps 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 usdevelop and enhance our QA processes within an AI-centric software development lifecycle. You steer. Let agents execute.
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.
What You'll Do
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
What You Bring:
AI and Automation
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 — LangChain, AutoGen, or equivalents
A builder's instinct: you see where AI can remove friction and you act on it
Core Engineering Skills
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
Supporting Technical 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
You'll Really Stand Out With
Experience in financial markets with working knowledge of order entry or market data protocols
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
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
Salary Ranges (applicable for US locations only)
At Cboe, we are committed to providing a competitive, transparent, and market‑informed total rewards program. The anticipated base salary range for this role is $93,500-$121,000, with actual compensation determined by job‑related factors such as skills, relevant experience, education, internal alignment, and location.
This role may also be eligible for annual incentive compensation and, where applicable, participation in Cboe's long-term equity programs.
Additional information about Cboe's total rewards program, including benefits and other compensation comp
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